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架构师提供的文本描述。我们把海边礼拜堂想象成很久以前在海上漂流的一艘旧船。随着时间的推移，海洋退去了，留下了一个空荡荡的建筑，它仍然躺在海滩上。

Text description provided by the architects. We imagine the Seashore Chapel as an old boat drifting on the ocean long time ago. The ocean receded through time and left an empty structure behind, which is still lying on the beach.

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因此，空间是垂直划分的。有盖的户外空间自然成为人们在海滩上休息的地方。它也是一个连接宗教空间和世俗生活的空间。当潮水上升时，这个空间将被水淹没。就在那一刻，漂流船的形象从教堂里浮现出来。

The space is thus divided vertically. The covered outdoor space naturally becomes a resting place for people on the beach. It is also a space connecting religious space to the mundane life. When the tide rises, this space will be submerged by water. At that moment, the imagery of the drifting boat emerges out of the chapel.

上层的气氛是强烈的神圣和宗教。空间体验始于通往礼拜堂的30米长的小径上。当人们逐渐接近，提示出现在另一边的悬挂空间，通过600毫米宽的差距，在大楼梯的中间。一瞥远处的海洋，他们走上楼梯，穿过大门，绕着屏风墙转到可以打开海景的空间。空间与海洋之间的关系由于位置的升高而更加密切。风景与海滩和人隔绝，只剩下延伸的海洋。

The atmosphere on upper floor is intensely divine and religious. The spatial experience begins on the 30 meters path leading to the chapel. When people gradually approach, the cue emerges indicating the suspending space on the other side through the 600mm wide gap in the middle of the grand staircases. With a glimpse of ocean in distance, they walk up the stairs, go through the gate, and make a turn around the screen wall into the space with unblocking ocean view. The relationship between space and the ocean is closer due to the elevated position. The view is isolated from the beach and people, leaving the outstretched ocean the only view in sight.

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礼拜堂的开口有限。唯一的大型水平海景窗口是在东面。它的2.7米高有助于避免过度的光线干扰到内部，也框架到海洋的看法。墙壁之间的几个狭小的缝隙也带来了自然的照明。照明是小心控制与10米高的内部空间，雾气扩散的光。在东面，一个三角形的开口从底部和上面都轻轻地照亮了十字架。在倾斜屋顶顶部有另一个光通道，使自然光流入空间，这是一个300毫米的缺口之间的弯曲墙在北部和倾斜屋顶。春夏秋冬正午，当太阳高度几乎垂直时，光线直接投射到北面的墙上，产生生动的照明效果。虽然灯光不会停留太久，但灰泥墙的质地在此刻被灯光所强调和庆祝，并成为一种触手可及的皮肤。在北面，有一个悬臂式的冥想空间。这个空间只适合一个人，墙壁紧紧地包裹着你的身体，一堵弯曲的墙把视线伸向遥远的海洋。

There are limited openings on the chapel. The only large horizontal ocean-view window is on the east facade. Its 2.7m height helps to avoid the interruption of excessive light to the interior, and also frames the view to the ocean. A few narrow gaps in between the walls also bring in natural lighting. Lighting is carefully controlled with the 10-meter tall interior space misting diffused light. On the east facade, a triangle opening gently illuminates the cross from both bottom and up. There is another light channel on top of the pitched roof allows the natural light streaming into the space which is a 300mm gap between the bended wall on north and the pitched roof. At the noon of spring, summer and fall, when the solar altitude is almost perpendicular, the light projects directly onto the wall on north, generating vivid lighting effect. Although the lights does not stay for long, the texture of the stucco wall is emphasized and celebrated by the light at the moment, and becomes a touchable skin. On the north side, there is a cantilevered space of meditation. The space can merely fit in one person where the walls wrap your body tightly, and one curvy wall extends the sight towards the distant ocean.

这个礼拜堂的设计综合考虑了自然通风。为了保持均匀、连续的外观，所有的窗户都隐藏在主信封与几块平行滑动墙之间的缝隙中。

The design of this chapel considers natural ventilation comprehensively. In order to maintain the uniform and continuous exterior appearance, all the windows are hidden in the gaps between the main envelope and several pieces of paralleled sliding-out walls.

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海滨教堂为其西侧的度假社区提供服务。它是最接近海洋的人造空间。除了宗教活动外，还有许多公共和社区活动计划在海滨教堂举行。他们和海边图书馆一起，在海边提供精神空间，人们可以在那里放慢脚步，体验大自然，审视自己的内心状态。

Seashore Chapel serves the resort community on its west side. It is the artificial space that is the closest to the ocean in the community. Apart from religious programs, many public and community events are planned in Seashore Chapel. Together with Seashore Library, they provide spiritual spaces at ocean front, where people can slow down their pace, experience the nature and examine their inner state.

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Architects Vector Architects

Location Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China

Category Chapel

Principal Architect Gong Dong

Design Team Dongping Sun , Yi Chi Wang, Jiahe ZhangClient

Client Beijing Rocfly Investment (Group) CO., LTD

Area 270.0 m2

Project Year 2015