Joshua Prince-Ramus: Designing the Seattle Central Library

翻译人员: Yintong Sun 校对人员: Tony Yet

I'm going to present three projects in rapid fire.

我将快速地展示三件作品

I don't have much time to do it.

我时间不多

And I want to reinforce three ideas with that rapid-fire presentation.

并且我想通过快速的展示来强化这三件作品的概念

The first is what I like to call a hyper-rational process.

第一件作品我将它的设计称之为高度理性主义

It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level,

它几乎

已经理性到了荒唐的境界

and it transcends all the baggage

它已经超过了

that normally comes with what people would call,

人们通常可以接受的

sort of a rational conclusion to something.

理性的程度

And it concludes in something that you see here,

它包含了一些你看得见

that you actually wouldn't expect as being the result of rationality.

但却想不到是理性主义的

一些元素

The second --

第二件

the second is that this process does not have a signature.

这第二件作品

并没有署名

There is no authorship.

我们不知作者是谁，而通常建筑师很乐于署名

Architects are obsessed with authorship.

This is something that has editing and it has teams,

通常以团队形式

but in fact, we no longer see within this process,

事实上我们在这件作品中看不到

the traditional master architect

传统建筑大师的创造

creating a sketch that his minions carry out.

而只是他的助手画出的草图

And the third is that it challenges --

第三个，有点难度

and this is, in the length of this, very hard to support why,

以它的长度，很难把所有这些

connect all these things --

连接在一起

but it challenges the high modernist notion of flexibility.

但它挑战了最现代意义上的灵活性

High modernists said we will create sort of singular spaces that are generic,

现代主义认为，我们创造

一种共有的单一空间

almost anything can happen within them.

几乎所有的事都能在那里发生

I call it sort of "shotgun flexibility" --

我把它称为射击的灵活性

turn your head this way; shoot; and you're bound to kill something.

把你的头转向这边，射击，你一定会打中目标

So, this is the promise of high modernism:

这就是现代主义的预示

within a single space, actually, any kind of activity can happen.

在单一空间里，所有的事都可能发生

But as we're seeing,

但正如我们看见的

operational costs are starting to dwarf capital costs

对于设计而言

in terms of design parameters.

运转费用超过了资本成本

And so, with this sort of idea,

一旦有了这种想法

what happens is, whatever actually is in the building on opening day,

所有正在建造中的

or whatever seems to be the most immediate need,

或者所有看似最急迫的需求

starts to dwarf the possibility and sort of subsume it,

都会阻止想法的落实

of anything else could ever happen.

以及最后设计成果的诞生

And so we're proposing a different kind of flexibility,

所以我们提出一种不一样的灵活性

something that we call "compartmentalized flexibility."

我们称之为

“分类的灵活性”

And the idea is that you, within that continuum,

大致的概念就像

identify a series of points, and you design specifically to them.

你连续地确认一系列点，并对它们进行设计

They can be pushed off-center a little bit,

它们会有点偏离中心

but in the end you actually still get as much

但最后你还是会得到

of that original spectrum as you originally had hoped.

和你最初想要的类似的效果

With high modernist flexibility, that doesn't really work.

而现代主义的灵活性，这点却不能成立

Now I'm going to talk about --

现在我来谈一下，我打算建造西雅图中央图书馆

I'm going to build up the Seattle Central Library

你们可以看到五六个图表

in this way before your eyes in about five or six diagrams,

这就是你们将看到的设计过程

and I truly mean this is the design process that you'll see.

With the library staff and the library board,

我们同图书馆委员会及工作人员一起

we settled on two core positions.

确定了两个核心设置

This is the first one, and this is showing, over the last 900 years,

这是第一个，它显示了，在过去900年里，

the evolution of the book, and other technologies.

书和其他技术的进化过程

This diagram was our sort of position piece about the book,

这图代表了我们对书的定位

and our position was, books are technology --

书本就是技术

that's something people forget --

许多人忘了这点

but it's a form of technology that will have to share its dominance

但是我们需要借助其他技术或媒介

with any other form of truly potent technology or media.

才能分享书的影响力

The second premise --

第二个预设，这个很难，

and this was something that was very difficult for us

我们花了很大力气去说服图书管理员

to convince the librarians of at first --

它们自从

is that libraries, since the inception of Carnegie Library tradition in America,

美国卡耐基图书馆的传统开始

had a second responsibility, and that was for social roles.

就承担了一种第二性的社会责任

Ok, now, this I'll come back to later, but something --

好了，现在，我们稍候再说这个，但是

actually, the librarians at first said, "No, this isn't our mandate.

那些图书管理员一开始会说：“不，这不是我们要管的”

我们管的是媒介，尤其是书

Our mandate is media, and particularly the book."

So what you're seeing now is actually the design of the building.

所以你现在看到的其实是建筑的设计

上面的图表

The upper diagram is what we had seen

是我们在整个当代图书馆里看到的

in a whole host of contemporary libraries that used high modernist flexibility.

它们运用到了现代主义的灵活性

Sort of, any activity could happen anywhere.

就是那种，任何事在任何地方都可能发生的

We don't know the future of the library; we don't know the future of the book;

我们不知道图书馆的未来，也不知道书的未来

所以我们用这个方法

and so, we'll use this approach.

我们看到的建筑千人一面

And what we saw were buildings that were very generic, and worse --

更糟的是并不只是看上去非常相似

not only were they very generic --

so, not only does the reading room look like the copy room

不只是阅览室和文印室

或者和杂志区长得差不多

look like the magazine area --

but it meant that whatever issue was troubling the library at that moment

更重要的是它意味着

所有图书馆里发生的事

was starting to engulf every other activity that was happening in it.

都会相互干扰相互影响

And in this case, what was getting engulfed

在这种情况下

were these social responsibilities by the expansion of the book.

书的社会责任之延伸将得不到发挥

And so we proposed what's at the lower diagram.

所以我们提出了下面的这个图

Very dumb approach: simply compartmentalize.

很土的办法

简化分类，将这些我们可以预料的事

Put those things whose evolution we could predict --

and I don't mean that we could say what would actually happen in the future,

我并不是说我们可以预测未来发生什么

但是我们很确信有这种

but we have some certainty of the spectrum of what would happen in the future --

未来发生的可能性

把这些东西放在一个专门设计的盒子里

put those in boxes designed specifically for it,

而把那些无法预测的放在屋顶

and put the things that we can't predict on the rooftops.

这就是核心思想

So that was the core idea.

Now, we had to convince the library

现在，为了让图书管理员认识到这一点

that social roles were equally important to media,

我们必须说服他们

in order to get them to accept this.

社会责任和媒介的作用一样重要

What you're seeing here is actually their program on the left.

你现在看到的左边的是他们的程序

That's as it was given to us in all of its clarity and glory.

和我们拿到它时一样的色彩鲜艳

Our first operation was to re-digest it back to them, show it to them and say,

我们的第一步是重新组合它们

回去跟他们说

"You know what? We haven't touched it,

“你们知道吗，我们一点都没动过

but only one-third of your own program is dedicated to media and books.

但你们的程序只有1/3是和媒介及书有关的

Two-thirds of it is already dedicated --

而剩下的三分之二，就是下面的白色部分

that's the white band below, the thing you said isn't important --

你们说它不重要的

is already dedicated to social functions."

已经起到了社会功能

So once we had presented that back to them,

所以，一旦我们把这个重新给他们看

they agreed that this sort of core concept could work.

他们同意这种核心概念能有效

We got the right to go back to first principles --

我们可以回到最重要的

that's the third diagram.

第三个图表，我们把一切重新组合

We recombined everything.

And then we started making new decisions.

然后我们开始做新的决定

What you're seeing on the right is the design of the library,

你们看到的右边是对图书馆的设计

尤其是面积空间上

specifically in terms of square footage.

左边，这里

On the left of that diagram, here, you'll see a series of five platforms --

你会看见

一系列的五个平台

sort of combs, collective programs.

梳理整合好的程序

And on the right are the more indeterminate spaces;

而右边不确定的空间

things like reading rooms,

比如阅览室

whose evolution in 20, 30, 40 years we can't predict.

我们无法判断它未来20，30，40年的发展

So that literally was the design of the building.

所以这就是初步的设计

They signed it, and to their chagrin,

他们签字同意了，但让他们懊恼的是

we came back a week later, and we presented them this.

一个星期以后，我们回来，向他们展示了这个

And as you can see, it is literally the diagram on the right.

你可以看到，这和那个图表面上看很契合

(Laughter)

我们只是

We just sized -- no, really, I mean that, literally.

噢，我说真的，表面上看

The things on the left-hand side of the diagram,

左边这些

those are the boxes.

就像图上的，是盒子

We sized them into five compartments. They're super-efficient.

我们把他们放进了五个部分

We had a very low budget to work with.

超级高效，我们预算很低

We pushed them around on the site

我们就这样建造

to make very literal contextual relationships.

非常清楚的上下关系

The reading room should be able to see the water.

从阅览室里可以看到下面的水

主入口前有一个广场

The main entrance should have a public plaza in front of it

to abide by the zoning code, and so forth.

遵守区域编号，排列

So, you see the five platforms, those are the boxes.

你可以看到五个平台

within each one, a very discrete thing is happening.

五个盒子，每个专供一项特殊的用途

The area in between is sort of an urban continuum,

而中间是现代化的联结

these things that we can't predict their evolution to the same degree.

这些我们无法预料未来发展进度的

To give you some sense of the power of this idea,

为了向你们展现这种想法的强大力量

the biggest block is what we call the book spiral.

最大的这一块我们称之为书螺旋

It's literally built in a very inexpensive way --

很简单，造价也不贵

it is a parking garage for books.

它就像一个”停书场“

It just so happens to be on the 6th through 10th floors of the building,

从6楼到10楼

但并不贵

but that is not necessarily an expensive approach.

And it allows us to organize the entire Dewey Decimal System

它使得我们可以连续地使用杜威十进制图书排列法

on one continuous run; no matter how it grows or contracts within the building,

无论书的数量怎样扩张

it will always have its clarity to end the sort of trail of tears

还是可以整理得很清楚

我们以前都曾对公共图书馆很无语

that we've all experienced in public libraries.

经常找不到书

(Laughter)

(笑声)

And so this was the final operation,

而最后一步就是把这些楼层

which was to take these blocks as they were all pushed off kilter,

整合在一起

and to hold onto them with a skin.

设计一个漂亮的外观

That skin serves double duty, again, for economics.

这个外观必须有两层作用

One, it is the lateral stability for the entire building;

第一，维持整个建筑横向的稳定

it's a structural element.

这是结构层面的，但它的作用不仅在于此

But its dimensions were designed not only for structure,

but also for holding on every piece of glass.

它还必须保证所有玻璃的安装

The glass was then -- I'll use the word impregnated --

使得玻璃融合一体

but it had a layer of metal that was called "stretched metal."

但它有所谓的一层受力金属

That metal acts as a microlouver,

就像微型天窗

so from the exterior of the building, the sun sees it as totally opaque,

隔离外部的阳光

but from the interior, it's entirely transparent.

却能保持室内光线通透

So now I'm going to take you on a tour of the building.

现在，我将带你们领略一下这个建筑

Let me see if I can find it.

我来找找看

For anyone who gets motion sickness, I apologize.

抱歉

So, this is the building.

这就是那幢建筑

And I think what's important is, when we first unveiled the building,

我认为重要的是，当我们首次展示这个建筑

the public saw it as being totally about our whim and ego.

公众普遍认为

这只是我们一时的野心和兴致

And it was defended, believe it or not, by the librarians.

但信不信由你们，这个建筑得到了图书管理员们的拥护

They said, "Look, we don't know what it is,

他们说：”我们不知这是啥，

but we know it's everything that we need it to be,

但根据我们观察

based on the observations that we've done about the program."

它有了我们需要的一切“

This is going into one of the entries.

这是个入口

So, it's an unusual building for a public library, obviously.

这是个很特别的公共图书馆

很显然

So now we're going into what we call the living room.

我们去看一下阅览室，错了，是大厅

This is actually a program that we invented with the library.

这其实是我们发明的一个空间

It was recognizing that public libraries

将图书馆作为

are the last vestige of public free space.

一个公众的自由空间

There are plenty of shopping malls that allow you to get out of the rain

在西雅图市中心

有许多购物广场，你避雨的时候可以去

in downtown Seattle,

but there are not so many free places

但却没有多少

that allow you to get out of the rain.

自由空间让你避雨

So this was an unprogrammed area where people could pretty much do anything,

而这就是一个人们可以做很多事的空间

包括吃，叫喊，下棋等等

including eat, yell, play chess and so forth.

Now we're moving up into what we call the mixing chamber.

现在我们往上

这是一个混合区

That was the main technology area in the building.

也是整座建筑的主体

You'll have to tell me if I'm going too fast for you.

如果我走得太快，你们可以提出

And now up.

现在上来

This is actually the place that we put into the building

这个其实是我们特地设计的

so I could propose to my wife, right there.

好让我向我妻子求婚，就是这里

(Laughter)

(笑声)

She said yes.

她答应了

(Laughter)

I'm running out of time, so I'm actually going to stop.

我快没时间了，所以就此打住

I can show this to you later.

我可以晚些再向你们展示

But let's see if I can very quickly get into the book spiral,

但我们试试看能不能快点看一下书螺旋

because I think it's, as I said, the most --

因为我觉得它是最……

this is the main reading room -- the most unique part of the building.

这是主阅览室，书螺旋是整座建筑最独特的地方

You dizzy yet?

你们晕了吗？

Ok, so here, this is the book spiral.

好，这就是书螺旋

So, it's very indiscernible,

看不清

but it's actually a continuous stair-stepping.

但实际上它是不断在上升

It allows you to, on one city block,

让你在一层楼

go up one full floor, so that it's on a continuum.

不断连续地向上

Ok, now I'm going to go back, and I'm going to hit a second project.

好，现在我们谈谈第二个作品

I'm going to go very, very quickly through this.

我会很快

Now this is the Dallas Theater.

这是达拉斯剧院，我们一个很特别的客户

It was an unusual client for us, because they came to us and they said,

因为他们来找我们，说

"We need you to do a new building.

我们需要你们建一栋新楼

We've been working in a temporary space for 30 years,

我们已经在临时房里工作了30年

but because of that temporary space,

就是因为那临时房

we've become an infamous theater company.

我们的剧院公司臭名昭著

Theater is really focused in New York, Chicago and Seattle,

我们的剧院主要针对纽约，芝加哥，西雅图

with the exception of the Dallas Theater Company."

这是我们达拉斯剧院公司的一些期望”

And the very fact that they worked in a provisional space

而他们在临时性场地工作的事实

说明他们可以随便弄垮一面墙

meant that for Beckett, they could blow out a wall;

they could do "Cherry Orchard" and blow a hole through the floor, and so forth.

或者像樱桃园一样在地上挖洞，等等

所以要为他们造一幢新楼对我们是一项令人畏惧的工作

So it was a very daunting task for us to do a brand-new building

要保持完好无损的外表

that could be a pristine building,

but keep this kind of experimental nature.

又要允许他们在里面做各种试验性的事

And the second is,

第二点是，这家公司是我们常说的

they were what we call a multi-form theater,

多功能剧院

they do different kinds of performances in repertory.

他们安排各种剧目的表演

So they in the morning will do something in arena,

比如早上，

他们会安排竞技场表演

then they'll do something in proscenium and so forth.

然后还有些幕前表演等等

And so they needed to be able to quickly transform

所以他们需要很快地

between different theater organizations,

在各种剧目间转换

and for operational budget reasons,

而由于预算

this actually no longer happens in pretty much

现在一般的美国剧院公司

any multi-form theater in the United States,

都不做这种形式

so we needed to figure out a way to overcome that.

因此我们要想法克服这一点

So our thought was to literally put the theater on its head:

所以我们的想法是把剧院放在前面

to take those things that were previously defined

然后把前面说的这些分为前部和后部

as front-of-house and back-of-house

以及上部和下部

and stack them above house and below house,

把它建成一个剧院机器

and to create what we called a theater machine.

We invest the money in the operation of the building.

我们投钱进去

It's almost as though the building could be placed anywhere,

所有的钱都会通过剧院的演出

wherever you place it,

得到回报

the area under it is charged for theatrical performances.

这让我们回到最初

And it allowed us to go back to first principles,

重新设计舞台塔，音箱

and redefine fly tower, acoustic enclosure, light enclosure and so forth.

灯光等

And at the push of a button,

同时，只要一按键

it allows the artistic director to move between proscenium, thrust,

艺术导演就可以在舞台，竞技场

and in fact, arena and traverse and flat floor,

之间穿梭

in a very quick transfiguration.

这是一种很快的转换

So in fact, using operational budget, we can --

所以事实上，用那些运营成本

sorry, capital cost -- we can actually achieve

抱歉，是资本成本，我们可以达到

what was no longer achievable in operational cost.

难以置信的效果

And that means that the artistic director

这意味着艺术导演

now has a palette that he or she can choose from,

现在可以选择

between a series of forms and a series of processions,

不同表演方式

because that enclosure around the theater that is normally trapped

由于剧院设计的关系

原本孤立的前后部得以贯通

with front-of-house and back-of-house spaces has been liberated.

空间得到了有效的利用

So an artistic director has the ability to have a performance

艺术导演可以

表演一出瓦格纳的戏

that enters in a Wagnerian procession,

shows the first act in thrust,

然后把它改变成

the intermission in a Greek procession,

希腊的过渡场景

second act in arena, and so forth.

再到竞技场表演第二幕，等等

So I'm going to show you what this actually means.

我现在要展示给你们看，这到底意味着什么

This is the theater up close.

这就是剧院

Any portion around the theater actually can be opened discretely.

其实周围的每一部分都可以秘密打开

The light enclosure can be lifted separate to the acoustic enclosure,

照明可以分开

这些都拿掉你可以演贝克纳

so you can do Beckett with Dallas as the backdrop.

把达拉斯作为背景

Portions can be opened,

周围打开，你可以让摩托车进去

so you can now actually have motorcycles drive directly into the performance,

直接上舞台，甚至可以由开放式的表演

or you can even just have an open-air performance,

or for intermissions.

或者是便于转场

The balconies all move to go between those configurations,

这些结构中的所有包厢都可以移动

but they also disappear.

或者拿掉

The proscenium line can also disappear.

幕前部分也可以拿掉

You can bring enormous objects in,

你可以搬来巨大的东西，事实上

so in fact, the Dallas Theater Company --

达拉斯剧院的第一场秀

their first show will be a play about Charles Lindbergh,

是关于查尔斯·林德伯格的

and they'll want to bring in a real aircraft.

他们将搬来真的飞行器

And then it also provides them, in the off-season,

这也让他们

the ability to actually rent out their space for entirely different things.

在非演出季的时候

可以把场地租出去

This is it from a distance.

这是夜晚，抱歉，远处看

Open up entire portions for different kinds of events.

把所用部分都打开，准备不同的活动

And at night.

这是在晚上

Again, remove the light enclosure; keep the acoustic enclosure.

一样的，去掉灯光，保留声音

This is a monster truck show.

可以演鬼片

I'm going to show now the last project.

现在我将要展示最后一件作品

This also is an unusual client.

也是一个特别的客户

They inverted the whole idea of development.

他们颠覆了整个发展的思路

They came to us and they said -- unlike normal developers --

和一般的开发商不同，他们过来跟我们说

they said, "We want to start out

“我们想从

by providing a contemporary art museum in Louisville.

当代艺术馆开始”

That's our main goal."

在路易斯维尔，这就是我们主要的目标“

And so instead of being a developer that sees an opportunity to make money,

和一般开发商看到赚钱的机会不同

他们希望在市中心

they saw an ability to be a catalyst in their downtown.

制造一些刺激因素

And the fact that they wanted to support the contemporary art museum

他们建立起一种预期

来支持当代艺术

actually built their pro forma,

so they worked in reverse.

并且为此奋斗

And that pro forma led us

而那种预期

to a mixed-use building that was very large,

引导我们建造一幢很大的多功能建筑

in order to support their aspirations of the art,

可以支持他们的艺术灵感

but it also opened up opportunities for the art itself

同时为艺术本身提供机会

to collaborate, interact with commercial spaces

与商业空间整合，互动

that actually artists more and more want to work within.

这才是现代艺术家期望的工作环境

And it also charged us with thinking about how to have

这也迫使我们去思考

something that was both a single building

如何把两种功能

and a credible sort of sub-building.

融合在一幢建筑里

So this is Louisville's skyline,

现在我将，这是路易斯维尔的地平线

and I'm going to take you through the various constraints

我将带你们穿过

各种各样的限制去看到这个项目

that led to the project.

First: the physical constraints.

首先，空间上的限制

We actually had to operate on three discrete sites,

事实上我们要在三个分散的点之间建造

all of them well smaller than the size of the building.

而它们在体积上都比这建筑小

We had to operate next to the new Muhammad Ali Center, and respect it.

首先，是新的爱立中心

我们必须在风格上与它协调

We had to operate within the 100-year floodplain.

必须建造在100年漫滩的范围内

Now, this area floods three to four times a year,

现在这块地方，每三到四年犯一次洪水

and there's a levee behind our site,

我们选址的后面还有一码头

similar to the ones that broke in New Orleans.

和新奥尔良损坏的那个很相似

Had to operate behind the I-64 corridor,

我们必须在I-64长廊后施工

a street that cuts through the middle of these separate sites.

这条街把地分割成几部分

So we're starting to build a sort of nightmare of constraints in a bathtub.

所有的这些……

简直是灾难

Underneath the bathtub are the city's main power lines.

这块地下面

有城市的主要电线

And there is a pedestrian corridor that they wanted to add,

他们想在那里建一条徒步走廊

that would link a series of cultural buildings,

可以将周围的建筑连成一体

and a view corridor -- because this is the historic district --

同时这也是一条景观走道

由于这是历史区，他们不希望被新房子挡住

that they didn't want to obstruct with a new building.

(笑声)

(Laughter)

现在我们将扩建1100万平方英尺

And now we're going to add 1.1 million square feet.

And if we did the traditional thing, that 1.1 million square feet --

如果我们按常规做法

these are the different programs --

当然这个项目会有不同

the traditional thing would be to identify the public elements, place them on sites,

传统的做法就是识别一些公共元素，保持不动

这样就会有一个很糟的结果

and now we'd have a really terrible situation:

会出现整体和谐中的突兀

a public thing in the middle of a bathtub that floods.

And then we would size all the other elements --

然后我们会安排其他的一些元素

the different commercial elements:

一些商业元素

hotel, luxury housing, offices and so forth --

酒店，奢侈住房，办公楼等

and dump it on top.

这些建筑会在上层

And we would create something that was unviable.

我们的这些建筑无法独立存在

In fact -- and you know this -- this is called the Time Warner Building.

事实上，就像时代华纳大楼

(Laughter)

(笑声)

So our strategy was very simple.

我们的战略非常简单

Just lift the entire block,

把整个街区向上提升

flip some of the elements over,

把一些建筑重新组合

reposition them so they have appropriate views

使它们看起来更协调，关系更紧密

and relationships to downtown,

and make circulation connections and reroute the road.

改变建筑间的关系以及道路的排列

So that's the basic concept,

好了，这是基本的概念

and now I'm going to show you what it leads to.

现在我想你们展示它的效果

Ok, it seems a very formal, willful gesture,

好的，它看上去是一个有力的象征

but something derived entirely out of the constraints.

完全超出一般的限制

And again, when we unveiled it, there was a sort of nervousness

一样的是，当它被揭幕时，也面临了种种质疑

这就像建筑师作了一个声明

that this was about an architect making a statement,

却不去解决问题

not an architect who was attempting to solve a series of problems.

有一系列的问题

Now, within that center zone, as I said,

现在，正如我说的，我们有能力

we have the ability to mix a series of things.

在那片中心区域组合一系列的事

So here, this is sort of an x-ray --

所以你们可以看到这些

这些，这塔就像x射线

the towers are totally developer-driven.

这些都是由发展商决定的，他们告诉我们面积的标准

They told us the dimensions, the sizes and so forth,

and we focused on taking all the public components --

而我们主要关注公共元素

大厅，酒吧，

the lobbies, the bars --

everything that different commercial elements would have,

所有关于商业的

and combined it in the center, in the sort of subway map,

并把他们在中心整合，就像四通八达的地铁图

in the transfer zone that would also include the contemporary art museum.

在过渡区域由当代博物馆

So it creates a situation like this, where you have artists who can operate

所以大致就是这个样子

我们有艺术家在里面工作

within an art space that also has an amazing view on the 22nd floor,

22楼的艺术空间有惊人的视野

but it also has proximity that the curator can either open or close.

但是馆长可以选择

是否开放这一区域

It allows people on exercise bicycles to be seen,

人们可以在那里骑自行车锻炼

or to see the art, and so forth.

观赏艺术，或成为艺术的一部分等

It also means that if an artist wants to invade something like a swimming pool,

如果有的艺术家很想尝试游泳池这样的空间

they can begin to do their exhibition in a swimming pool,

在这里他们可以在游泳池内进行展览

这与一般的当代艺术相比

so they're not forced to always work within the confines

使他们不用再恪守固定的局限

of a contemporary gallery space.

So, how to build this.

所以，怎么造这个

It's very simple: it's a chair.

很简单，这是一张椅子

So, we begin by building the cores.

我们先开始建造主体部分

As we're building the cores, we build the contemporary art museum at grade.

同时也建造当代艺术博物馆

这会使得我们非常高效，也很省钱

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

这幢建筑预算并不高

This is not a high-budget building.

The moment the cores get to mid level,

当主体物分建到中层时

we finish the art museum; we put all the mechanical equipment in it;

艺术博物馆封顶，开始安装机械设备

然后在这里建个平面

and then we jack it up into the air.

他们也是这样造大型飞机库的

This is how they build really large aircraft hangars,

比如他们为空客A380早的

for instance, the ones that they did for the A380.

主体框架搭建完成后开始填充血肉

Finish the cores, finish the meat

and you get something that looks like this.

然后你们可以看到就像这个

Now I only have about 30 seconds,

现在我大概只有30秒，我马上开始

so I want to start an animation,

一个动画片，我们将以此结束

and we'll conclude with that.

Thank you.

(Applause)

掌声

Chris asked me to add --

Chris希望我加几句

the theater is under construction,

剧院正在建造

and this project will start construction in about a year,

而这个工程将在大约一年后开工

and finish in 2010.

2010年完工

[identify public elements]

[insert public elements at grade]

[optimize tower dimensions]

[place towers on site]

[lift program]

[flip!]

[optimize program adjacencies]

[connect to context]

[redirect 7th street]