Bangkok Project Studio 大象博物馆

　　大象在泰国有着特殊的地位。它们是皇室典礼的一部分，历史上曾作为战争动物帮助国王征战四方。泰国人尊重这种动物，并与其建立起了独特的关系。比起宠物或劳力，他们更愿意把大象视为家庭成员。在泰国东北部Surin省的Kui族村落中，这一纽带可能更为强大。几个世纪以来，当地社群一直与大象共同生活，从出生至死亡，难以分割。
　　Elephants have a special status in Thailand. They are part of grand royal ceremonies and were war animals for Kings throughout the country’s ancient history. In addition to being respected, the relationship between elephants and Thai people are unique—being treated as family members rather than pets or labour. The bond is perhaps strongest in the village of the ethnic Kui in Surin province, north-eastern Thailand. For many centuries, the community has lived with elephants that their ways of life, from birth to death, can hardly be separated.
　　过去五十年中，由于经济作物的大量种植，Surin原本葱郁的森林遭到破坏，致使Kui族人和他们的大象遭受了极端的干旱以及食物和药物的短缺。由于缺少生存的必需品，他们投身旅游城镇，以求获得食物和工作，其中一些的生活条件令人堪忧。
　　Once lush greenery, the forest of Surin was destroyed in favour of cash crops in the last half-century. The Kui and their elephants suffered extreme droughts, shortages of food and medicinal plants the forest once provided. Deprived of sustenance, the two displaced to tourist towns begging for food or working in elephant camps, some with unsuitable living conditions.

　　大象博物馆是大象世界的一部分，由当地政府发起，希望帮助Kui族人和大象重回他们的故乡，并确保适合大象的生活环境。这里不仅仅是展出物品的场所，还要倾听和体现居住在此的村民以及200多头大象的声音，包括长久以来家人关系下对残忍动物利用的反对，以及对未来的期冀。
　　Elephant Museum is part of Elephant World, a project initiated by the local government to bring the two back to their homeland and to ensure the suitable living conditions for the elephants. Not only showcasing objects, but the museum shall also portray the voice of the villagers and more than 200 elephants living here—of their long-established familial relationship disapproval of the cruelty of animal exploitation, and of their hope for the future.

　　在空旷的基地上，高低各异的弯曲墙面生长而出，如同将建筑打开以迎接大象大小的游客。倾斜的墙面相互交错，形成将游客引入室内的间隙。
　　Amidst the vast treeless landscape, curved walls at varying heights sprout from the ground, seemingly opening the building up to visitors of an elephant’s size. The walls slope and cross one another, revealing gaps that lead visitors to the inside.

　　不同形状和大小的庭院面向四间展廊开放。有些庭院中设有小水塘，有些露出红色土地，与周边环境一致。室外路径、有顶空间和开放庭院采用不同尺度，重现了当地的特色元素，从大象、人、人的住宅和浴池，到供大象玩耍的泥塘，不一而足。
　　Courtyards of different shapes and sizes open up from the four exhibition galleries. Some are filled with small pools, some with reddish earth just like the landscape outside. Different scales of outdoor paths, sheltered space, and open courtyards, recall elements of the area: from elephants, humans, their houses, the ponds they both bathe, to the dirt bath the playful elephants enjoy.

　　为了展现太阳下的生活，阳光是设计中的必要元素。部分房间和道路充满明亮的阳光，另一些则相对昏暗。光影在一天中随太阳角度的变化而改变。庭院和外墙可以供展览使用，而展廊内也许只设置座椅，人们可以坐在这里休息，观看室外发生的活动，反思人与大象的共

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