高地村是一个沉浸式生活博物馆，记录了新斯科舍省盖尔文化的历史。它展示了穿着服装的动画师在布雷顿角艾奥纳（Iona）的一个修复的历史村落中再现和解释传统的家庭农场生活。游客和解说中心被设计为这种体验的新的文化和物理门户。
The Highland Village is an immersive living museum documenting the history of Gaelic culture in Nova Scotia. It presents costumed animators recreating and interpreting traditional homestead life within a restored historic village in Iona, Cape Breton Island. The Visitors’ and Interpretive Centre is designed as a new cultural and physical portal to this experience.
博物馆作为一个整体，特别是新的中心，其目的是要吸引游客沿着时间线穿越连续的历史时期和文化背景。新的解说中心的设计通过一条在一系列不同但重复的建筑体量中穿梭的路径来勾勒出这种时间旅行。这些体量本身形成了一个类似于高地村本身的重复的准本地形式的集合。
The intent of the Museum as a whole, and the new Centre in specific, is to draw the visitor along a chronological thread weaving through successive historic periods and cultural contexts. The design of the new Interpretive Centre delineates this time travel through a path that weaves in and out of a series of distinct but repeating building volumes. The volumes themselves form a gathering of repeated quasi-vernacular forms analogous to the Highland Village itself.
这条路是由连续的门槛组成的，用室内和室外的坡道来表达，在过渡到展品、观景台和进出村子其他地方的通道上，用粗锯木和皮质钢的材料变化来点缀。建筑围护结构采用了平坦的天然雪松包层，所有四个体量都采用了陡峭的坡屋顶。屋檐处明显增加的屋顶厚度用金属重新诠释，让人联想到苏格兰高地清场时盖尔人的主要屋顶技术，这也引发了第一批移民潮。
The path is composed of successive thresholds, expressed with interior and exterior ramps moving up and into the site, punctuated by material shifts in rough-sawn wood and corten steel at transitions to exhibits, a viewing platform, and passages to and from other parts of the Village. The building envelope uses flush natural cedar cladding and steep pitched gable roofs on all four volumes. The enhanced roof thickness, apparent at the eaves, is re-interpreted in metal and evokes the thatch construction which was the predominant roofing technology among the Gaels in Scotland at the time of the Highland clearances, which triggered the first waves of migration.
第四部分，即中间部分，隐藏在自己的轴线上，是整个建筑群的隐喻中心，包括核心展览和家谱图书馆。对苏格兰传统的黑房子的反转，木质内部呈现在整个建筑的外部，使用当地的云杉木板，边缘和间隔。
The fourth, middle volume, concealed and set on its own axis, is the metaphorical heart of the complex, containing the core exhibitions and the genealogical library. An inversion of the traditional black houses of Scotland, where the wood interior is presented on the full exterior of the building, using local spruce boards, on edge and spaced.
原始黑屋类型的植物性外部材料被翻转到内部，使用纤维木板，这也是一种声学处理。 一个实际的希伯来语黑房子的复制品也位于博物馆的场地上。这是新斯科舍省第一个采用被动式房屋策略设计的公共部门项目，包括超级绝缘的墙壁和屋顶，三层玻璃的高性能窗户，以及超高效的热回收系统。
The vegetative exterior material of the original black house typology is flipped to the interior with fibrous wood panels, which double as an acoustic treatment. A replica of an actual Hebridean black house is also located on the museum site. This is the first public-sector project in Nova Scotia designed with Passive House strategies including super-insulated walls and roofs, triple-glazed high-performance windows, and an ultra-efficient heat recovery system.
Architects: Abbott Brown Architects
Area : 728 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Maxime Brouillet
Manufacturers : Agway Metals Inc., Vetta Windows & Doors
Structural Engineering : Campbell Comeau Engineering Limited
General Contractor : Brilun Construction Ltd.
Passive House Consultant : Habit Studio
Electrical Engineering : Dillon Consulting
Landscape Architecture : Gordon Ratcliffe Landscape Architects
Design Team : Jane Abbott, Alec Brown, Katelyn Latham, Karen Mills, Kim Chayer, Asma Ali, Nick Glover
City : Iona
Country : Canada