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时代周刊:英国乡村建筑刮起“摇滚风”

http://www.sina.com.cn 2011年03月22日 10:35 新浪尚品

  在英国的乡村度假不一定非得住在矫饰的小别墅、阴郁的豪华古宅或者透风恐怖的古堡里,这些可能听起来都不太现实。不想睡在建筑博物馆中的游客可以选择一些“居住型建筑”,这是瑞士主播和作家阿兰-德波顿(Alain de Botton)脑力劳动的成果。

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  在全国范围内建造当代度假小屋是一个非营利性的创新思维,每个小屋均由不同的尖端工作室负责设计。

  三座度假小屋已于去年建成。金属色的平衡谷仓悬浮于英国东部萨福克自然保护区;沙丘房非对称的矗立于萨福克海滩延伸处;时尚的极简抽象风格木瓦小屋独一无二的直立在肯特角。每个小屋可容纳8或9人,屋内装有设计师专门搭配的便利设施,德国美诺家电、REN美容护肤品,以及Peter Reed亚麻制品。这些设计对乡村建筑应有的古老形势发起挑战。

  德波顿说:“因为,英国工业化的速度太快,对历史的怀旧情感非常强烈。”同时,他认为,应用于当代英国其他地方的创新设计也可以用于乡村建筑。他说:“我们当代的建筑也可以拥有人们所向往的古建筑的许多特征,像丰富的感官效果、温馨的感觉,以及与历史相连的情感。但是,没有必要非得将这些建筑建成博物馆似的老古董或者粗劣的作品。”

  2011和2012年计划建造的有诺福克“长屋”和德文郡“退隐世俗”。诺福克“长屋”是由英国当代艺术家迈克尔(Michael)和帕蒂-霍普金斯(Patty Hopkins)设计,他从崎岖不平的盐沼景观及当地传统建筑使用的燧石得到灵感;“退隐世俗”是由普利兹克建筑奖获得者瑞士设计大师彼得-祖索尔(Peter Zumthor)设计,他想通过使用开放形式和环保夯实混凝土来重塑教会建筑的优雅和宏伟。可以肯定得是:这些建筑上绝对没有茅草屋顶、挑花窗帘和落地的大摆钟。

  English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll

  Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible plumbing. Travelers who would rather not bed down in architectural museums can now instead stay in some living architecture — or perhaps that should be Living Architecture, the brainchild of Swiss broadcaster and writer Alain de Botton. It's a nonprofit initiative to plant contemporary holiday chalets throughout the country, each designed by a different cutting-edge studio。

  Three were completed last year. The metallic Balancing Barn levitates over a Suffolk nature reserve. The Dune House struts asymmetrically on a popular stretch of Suffolk beach. The fashionably minimalist Shingle House stands alone and austere on a windswept Kent promontory. Each chalet sleeps eight or nine people, is fitted with designer amenities — Miele appliances, REN skin-care products and Peter Reed linen — and seeks to challenge the notion that rural architecture should consist of archaic forms, traditional materials and a hefty dollop of prettiness。(See 10 things to do in London。)

  "Because Britain industrialized so fast, there's tremendous nostalgia for history," says de Botton. At the same time, he argues that there is no reason why the innovative approach taken in other fields of contemporary British design can't be employed in country living. "The architecture of our own times can have many of the qualities that people admire in buildings of old, like a sensory richness, a warmth, a connection with history," he says. "But they don't have to be museum pieces or kitsch."

  Among projects planned for 2011 and 2012 are the Long House in Norfolk, by British modernists Michael and Patty Hopkins (who have drawn inspiration from the rugged salt-marsh landscape and the use of flint in the area's traditional buildings), and a "secular retreat" in Devon by Pritzker Prize — winning Swiss design maestro Peter Zumthor, who seeks to recreate the poise and mass of ecclesiastical architecture through the use of open forms and eco-friendly rammed concrete. See living-architecture.co.uk for more information — and rest assured there won't be a thatched roof, lace curtain or grandfather clock in sight。

  (时代周刊)

  (斯年)

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