ARCHITECTURE 建築 | INTERIOR 室內
Among the Clouds 雲上
Location: Nanjing, China 中國 南京
Typology: Commercial
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Status: Under Construction
Located next to the Nanjing Tiebei City Park, the building serves as an art center. Its design attempts to subvert the impression of rigidity commonly associated with buildings with a vibrant organic form reminiscent of a sea of clouds, reflecting a natural harmony.
The building is composed of two basic elements: a staggered and stacked volume of two semi-reflective and translucent glass boxes on the inner side that simultaneously meets functional requirements and represents the building's static rationality; five horizontal and transparent metal shutter sheets on the outer side that appear like a "flowing sea of clouds", freely moving apart from the glass volume, providing shade from the sun, and symbolizing the dynamic sensibility of the building.
The relationship between the two basic elements is like the codependence between clothing and bodies, creating a richly expressive intermediary space between the intermittent flickers of light reflecting off of the glass cube and the thin metal shutters. The effect is a beguilingly poetic spatial aesthetic that lends to the interior area a multi-layered sense of outward extension and softly natural interactions. Shifting with the changing light, the superimposed facade appears solid yet yielding, aloof yet elegant, and logical yet emotional.
The impression of a building is no longer a clear silhouette.
Instead, it is an image of time mapped out across layers upon layers.
It is an expression of floating light and shadow.
It is a fluid exchange between illusion and reality.
Like a cloud drifting across a water surface
It is both architecture and landscape
It is elegant as well as silent
Finding sensations of life amidst complete purity, and sensing the existence of time within ambiguity.
建築是位於南京鐵北城區公園旁的一座藝術中心, 設計上企圖破除建築的剛硬輪廓印象, 而能像雲海般與環境和諧共融且富有生命力的有機形體.
由個主要的元素構成, 一個內側由兩個由半反射半透光的玻璃盒子錯落疊合成的量體, 滿足機能需求的同時象徵著建築中的靜態理性, 另一個則是外側如雲海般的” 流動的雲”型態的5片水平透空的金屬百葉皮層, 脫開玻璃量體而自由的律動著, 扮演遮陽的腳色也象徵著建築中的動態感性.
兩個元素的關係有如身體與衣服之間的依存, 在律動之間創造出了表情豐富的中介空間, 光線在玻璃方體與金屬百葉之間閃爍跳耀互相輝映著，時而穿透時而反射. 創造出最迷人與充滿詩意的空間情境，也讓室內的空間感受是多層次的往外延伸與自然柔和的互動著．疊加而成的外觀會隨著天光改變而律動，剛強也柔順， 冷酷也飄逸，理性也感性。
建築的印象不再是一幅清晰的輪廓
而是層層疊疊的映射出的時間印象
是一片漂浮的光與影的表情,
是一層流動的虛與實的對話
有如飄在水面上的一朵浮雲
是建築也是地景
是飄逸也是靜默
在純粹中尋找生命感， 在模糊中感受時間性