茧

建筑师：谢英俊、阮庆岳、马可•卡萨格兰

地点：中国深圳

场地面积：废墟、荒废建筑场地3000 m2有效利用面积：120 m2

完工：2009年

Architects: Hsieh Ying-chun, Marco Casagrande, Roan Ching-yueh

Location: Shenzhen, China

Site: 3000 m2waste land, ruined building site

Building footprint: 120 m2

Completed: 2009

该建筑物是在深圳市政厅和打工者非法聚居地之间的一处废弃建筑物遗址上建立起来的，设计灵感来自于昆虫。用竹子划片镂空编制房屋源自于广西当地的建筑方法，由广西农村的流动建筑工人带到城市。

在深港城市建筑双城双年展期间，这个空间可以用于地下乐队演奏、诗歌朗诵、讨论会、卡拉OK举办，还可以作为附近工地工人的休息室。它遮雨避阳，台上设舞台，底下有暖炉，设施齐全。双年展结束后，《茧》将改建成为一家非官方社交俱乐部，为流动农村务工人群提供服务。

这项建筑是脆弱的，也是柔韧的，其简易的制作正好符合建筑场地的具体条件——出自一片废墟。在这里，建筑强大的控制性被抛弃，相反，那份本性和自然步入殿堂。弱建筑正是人性与自然之间的中介，是设计师、施工人员和区域知识共同参与规划的结晶。

在深圳这样的城市里，生活在城市中心的人们渴望逃离那种爆炸式的都市喧嚣，而这种可爱的茧状建筑恰好为他们提供了暂时的休憩之所，并将建筑（工业昆虫）从一切非自然的力量中解放出来。

难道只有当世界毁灭社会才能重生吗？人类非要重回一千年前才能认识到自然和原始才是永恒的吗？

我们需要让这些设想就在现在实现。

让人们相信，让人们尽情嘲笑他们怀有的所谓激情，因为他们称之为激情的其实并不属于纯粹的感情能量，那只是他们灵魂与外部世界之间产生的摩擦。

而最重要的是：就让他们相信自己，就让他们像无助的孩子一样，因为：

柔能克刚（柔弱即是伟大，刚强一文不值） —— “潜行者”，安德烈•塔科夫斯基

“弱”团队建造的《茧》

《茧》源于马可.卡萨格兰、谢英俊和阮庆乐三位来自不同地域的建筑师间的一场讨论。我们都是弱者！我们向大自然学习，在昆虫身上找寻建筑的灵感。我们应该是柔弱的！建筑师应当是柔弱的工业昆虫。

设计过程是非常痛苦的，一开始我们各执己见，把设计拉向了三个完全不同的方向。但最后我们放弃了设计，让设计本身引领我们，我们需要做的仅是学会倾听。令建筑本身引导建筑师，建筑师们静心聆听。

仅仅只有设计是不够的，设计不能取代现实。楼房要建筑在特定的地理位置上，楼房要适应周围的环境，它必须反映生命、呈现自我，如同其他任何一种生物一样。建筑的控制性违背自然，也违背建筑本身，建造好的人类环境应被视之为人性与自然之间的融合。人类必须顺从天性，柔弱地成为自然的一部分。

在农村流动工人营地前的《茧》

当所谓的“设计”被拿进建筑场地，工地里的人们开始工作，建筑工人就是场地与设计间的诠释者。我们的建筑团队来自广西、河南与四川的农村地区，他们把现代人与大自然的联系——“当地的知识”带进了城市。他们勤劳的双手曾经建造了一个现代化的深圳，现在他们同样创造了《茧》。只不过，大都市深圳的建设控制性十足，而《茧》是天然、柔韧的象征。

对于建筑控制性，我们必须抛弃，这样我们才能真正遵循自然理念并融于自然。

为非法迁移工人打造的民间社交俱乐部

具体而言，我们的建筑工人个性敏锐，富有创造力和责任性。他们就像昆虫一样，懂得如何在自然中建造家园。作为建筑师，我们须要成为他们中的一份子，在建筑方面迈出更为柔和、矫健和流畅的步伐。

从更广意义上来说，如果我们真正学会理解这些数以亿计的流动务工人员与城市之间的联系，也许我们就能够打碎一座座工业都市，真正使城市成为大自然的一部分。

The building is realized on a wasteland of a ruined building site in-between the Shenzhen City Hall and an illegal workers camp. The design is inspired by insects.The bamboo construction methods are based on local knowledge from rural Guanxi brought into the city by the migrating construction workers.

The space is used during the SZHK Biennale for underground bands, poetry reading, discussions, karaoke and as a lounge for the illegal workers from the neighboring camp. The building offers a shade, a stage and a fireplace. After the Biennale the Bug Dome will act as an un-official social club for illegal workers from the Chinese countryside.

The building is weak, flexible and improvised to meet the site-specific conditions. It is growing from a ruin. The architectural control has been given up in order to let the nature step in. The weak architecture is a mediator between the human nature and nature. The construction is a result of participatory planning between the designers,construction workers and local knowledge.

The cocoon is a weak retreat for the modern man to escape from the strength of the exploding urbanism in the heart of Shenzhen. It is a shelter to protect the industrial insects from the elements of un-nature.

When the fire is up a society is born again. One has to take the liberty to travel a thousand years back in order to realize that the things are the same.

Let everything that has been planned come true.

Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy but just a friction between their souls and the outside world.

And most important: let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because: weakness is a great thing and strength is nothing.

- “Stalker”, Andrei Tarkovsky

Bug Dome by the WEAK!

The Bug Dome is a result of discussions between Marco Casagrande, Hsieh Ying-chun and Roan Ching-yueh. Together we are the WEAK! Insects inspire our construction methods. WEAK! Architects are the industrial insects.

The design process was painful. We were all ripping the design to all three individual directions but in the end we gave up and the design became the boss and we learned to listen. Architecture gives the commands and architects listen.

To design is not enough. Design should not replace reality. The building must grow from the site; it must react for its surroundings, it must reflect life and it must let to be itself, like any other living creature. Architectural control is against nature and it is against architecture. Built human environment is a mediator between human nature and nature. Man must be weak to be part of nature.

Bug Dome in front of the migrant workers camp.

When the “design” was brought to the site, the site got to it. The interpreters between the site and the design were the construction workers. Our team came from the rural areas of Guanxi, Henan and Sichuan. They bought to the city with them the connection between the modern men and nature – local knowledge.The same hands that build the Bug Dome have also build the modern Shenzhen.Shenzhen is a manifest of control; Bug Dome is manifest of weakness.

What comes to architectural control, we must give up in order for the nature to step in and for the human nature as part of nature.

Un-official social club for illegal workers

Our construction workers were sensitive, creative and responsible. They knew how to construct nature as insects do. As architects we had to become part of them to gain soft, organic and moving space.

In large scale, if we learn to understand the connection what the hundreds of millions of hands that are now migrating from the rural China to the modern cities might bring along them, we might be able to ruin the industrial city. We might be able to make the city to be part of nature.