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金马宾馆当代美术馆

金马宾馆当代美术馆 ALIEN Art Center —— 山脚下的私人美术馆 A gallery at foot of mountain

见证了两岸从过去的对抗到今日的对话，位于高雄寿山山脚下、一栋60年代兴建的军方建筑，金马宾馆是一个充满时代记忆的场所。过去作为往返金门及台澎地区差假官兵暂宿的处所，而今日基于城市的转型，政府开放企业经营，接手的企业计划改造成为一个私人的艺术中心，作为高雄在地一个重要的文化场所。

60年的代金马宾馆, Kin-Ma Hotel around 1960s

正面入口, Entrance at Facade

旧的建筑总是富有故事与记忆、而记忆是都市与人链接的重要因子

城市是一个多元、且连结时间轴的综合体。之于城市、对于我们、旧的建筑最好不仅是保存、而更是活化；所以对于金马宾馆、我们希望既能保留与过去链接的记忆与关系、又能赋予它新的当代都市机能、使其能溶入都市体系里面继续运作下去。因此，在规划里保留了原本的建筑本体、长廊、材料、光影等等这些与记忆串联的因子、另外也花了相当的预算在处理建筑的整体结构补强，使其能够继续"存活"及被使用下去。

Located at foot of Shou Mountain, Kaohsiung and have been facing change of situation between Mainland China and Taiwan from confrontation to dialogue, a military building, Kin-Ma Hotel, was built around 1960s and used for soldier to stay during vacation back from frontline, but it’s released by government today due to transformation of Kaohsiung from industrial to tourist city. So the client plans to transform Kin-Ma Hotel to a gallery, ALIEN Art Center and expect it could become an important culture place in Kaohsiung City.

Old building is always with story, and memory is connection to city

For us, preservation is not the best way to deal with old building, but to run it with new urban function, because we think that’s the way to make it integrated with city system and can survive for long time. However layout of military building is always symmetrical which gives feeling of stable, but also conservative and closed that is very different from environment of contemporary art space as known. And especially even it’s beside mountain, but still with no intention to connect it. So basically both space is conflicting in essence, and it’s the main task for design.