探索建筑如何塑造记忆

作者author: Jack McManus

为什么有一些地标和建筑以及场地和体验会让我们终生难忘呢？甚至我们在童年时参观过的某个地方，可以通过在我们脑海中所留下的记忆影响我们的情绪。来自布鲁克斯+斯卡帕建筑师事务所的安吉拉·布鲁克斯和拉里·斯卡帕解释说：“我们事务所的建筑作品希望带给所有体验过的人们留下持久的印象”，“我们试图留下一些东西，这些东西能深深地植入人们的记忆中。”

这家总部位于洛杉矶的建筑事务所，在Breadtruck Films电影公司出品的一部4分钟的微型纪录片中，分享了他们在建筑设计中的哲学理念。这部纪录片记录了对于创始人安吉拉·布鲁克斯和拉里·斯卡帕的采访、一部分建成项目的航拍镜头、还包括了他们在事务所里实际参与设计的过程。

布鲁克斯解释说：“无论项目的规模如何，我们都会将那些空间使用者的经验纳入考虑。”例如，他们所设计的残疾退伍军人康复中心（The SIX）将建筑立面打开，并将内部掏空，从而让住户与街道保持联系，但同时也保护他们不会受到太多外部的干扰。这部纪录片还记录了布鲁克斯和斯卡帕对于设计进程的见解，其中有一部分利用特效展示了他们的设计草图是如何变成实体建筑的。此外，这两位建筑师也在采访中表示：建筑设计中能源的最优化，以及对场地破坏的最小化将会成为未来设计的关键。

布鲁克斯+斯卡帕建筑师事务所建成的特色项目包括：被掏空的公寓、天使湖中转站、罗利当代艺术博物馆、犹他州的索伦森艺术中心，以及阴阳住宅。斯卡帕还表示：“阴阳住宅的住户已经在那里住好几年了，却从未收到过水电费帐单”。

Why do we remember buildings,locations,and experiences? Even a place visited in our childhood can conjure emotions that make an impact on us through the memories they create.Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa explain that the work of Brooks+Scarpa Architects aspires to make a lasting impression out of even a brief encounter.“We try to leave something behind,” says Scarpa,“something ingrained in people’s memory that sticks with them.”

The Los Angeles-based firm shares the philosophy behind their design process in a profile from Breadtruck Films entitled “Memory: Frame.” The four-minute micro-documentary incorporates interview scenes with Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa,drone footage of a few of the firm’s projects,and shots of the design process in progress at their studio.

Brooks explains that regardless of a project’s scale,the firm considers the experience of everyone who will eventually use the space.For example,their rehabilitation center for disabled veterans uses a large elevated aperture in the facade to maintain a connection between the residents and the street while protecting them from the road.The video also offers insight into the working dynamic between the two partners of the firm.A few interesting visuals reveal how their early drawings came to life as finished buildings.Also,the architects’ perspective on energy optimization and minimal site disruption as key aspects of future design.

Featured projects include The Six,Angle Lake Transit Station,Raleigh's Contemporary Arts Museum,the Sorenson Center for the Arts in Utah and the Yin-Yang House,whose residents have "never,ever received a utility bill" according to Scarpa.

Angle Lake ©Ben schneider

Courtesy of Brooks+Scarpa