Fundamentals: Form-ContraForm
基本宮球
[2014]
Bekkering Adams architects[The Netherlands]
畢卡榮阿當斯建築師事務所[荷蘭]
Artist's Biography
Bekkering Adams architects is a Dutch architectural firm that stands for unique architecture by creating buildings with a soul. The aim is to make environments where users and visitors can identify themselves with and can be proud of. Together with an enthusiastic team of architects and designers, the founders Juliette Bekkering and Monica Adams work on innovative and sustainable projects with a strong identity, defined by expressive architecture with a tactile expression of material and detail.
Over the years a distinct oeuvre has been established, characterized by iconographic and characteristic buildings. Research plays a key role within projects and parallel to the design process the office frequently seeks collaboration with other parties to set up research routes to deepen the content of the design, including research into sustainability, materialization, scenographic and typological studies. The office has a special interest in the potential of public and collective space in the contemporary transformation processes of our cities.
The commissions vary from complex building assignments to concept development, ranging from headquarter offices to public buildings, from urban plan to interior design. The work of Bekkering Adams architects has been published in a wide range of renowned national and international architectural reviews and books. Various projects have been nominated for national architectural awards.
Recently realized buildings comprise the Head office Benelux of Esprit, the urban ensemble of public buildings ‘Bloemershof’ in Dieren, Fire station Doetinchem, School, and daycare centre de Schatkamer, Public Playground in Rotterdam, Head office of Schuurman Group, Boostergemaal-Oost in Amsterdam, Offices Maashaven, Rotterdam and the fire station and rescue service Vlissingen Middelburg.
Currently the office is working on a pavilion in Oss and a School Campus in Peer, Belgium, comprising of a secondary and preliminary school, a boarding school and a sport complex, embedded in a new public park in the vicinity of the City centre of Peer. The office is exhibiting the installation Fundamentals: Form-ContraForm in the 14th Architefture Biennale in Venice, Italy.
藝術家簡介
畢卡榮阿當斯建築師事務所是一所荷蘭建築公司，致力設計具靈魂的獨特建築，使環境用戶及訪者可識別個人特色，引以為傲。創始人朱麗葉．畢卡榮及莫妮卡．亞當斯連同其出色的建築師及設計師團隊，創造創新及可持續的項目，透過建築用料和設計細節，表現深刻建築作品的強烈風格。
多年以來，透過富有特色的建築作品，事務所已建立及成就其鮮明的創作風格；他們的項目著重研究探索，其關鍵在於同時在設計過程中，與不同的組織或團隊合作，以加強其設計內容，包括探討可持續發展、物料用材、透視法運用以至類型學研究。他們特別專注公共空間的潛力，以及現代城市的轉型過程中公共空間的特殊領域。
事務所的委約項目各不相同，從複雜的建築設計以至概念發展、從總部辦公室到公共建築、從城市規劃到室內設計不等。事務所的作品曾在一系列享譽國內外盛名的建築評論雜誌及書籍發表，不同的項目均曾被提名國家建築大獎。
近期的建築作品包括Esprit比荷廬三國關稅同盟總行、荷蘭迪倫Bloemershof的公共建築、杜廷赫姆消防局、Schatkamer學校與日托中心、鹿特丹的公共遊樂場、Schuurman集團的總公司、阿姆斯特丹的Boostergemaal-Oost、Maashaven的鹿特丹辦事處，及Vlissingen Middelburg的消防局和救援服務站。
團隊目前的項目包括奧斯館及一所比利時的校園（市中心的中小學、寄宿學校及運動場館）。作品基本宮球的裝置版本將於第十四屆意大利威尼斯建築雙年展展出。
Artist statement
(Only the prototype will be shown in the main exhibition)
The installation FUNDAMENTALS: Form/ContraForm reflects on the concept and definition of Time, Space and Existence. The essence of FUNDAMENTALS is conceived as the elementary space that every person needs. Architecture is fundamentally created by the definition of co-ordinates in space. The installation FUNDAMENTALS: Form/ContraForm deals with the experience of mass versus the cavity. The intention is to provide an experience that is not only shaped by the physical boundaries of space, but is extended beyond the tangible.
Within the exhibition room a homogeneous volume in the shape of a cube of 2,4 x 2,4 meters is defined. It is formed by 14.000 balls hanging from wires on a grid of 10 by 10 cm. The cube defines a mass within the room. Inside the cube a cavity is created where visitors can enter. The cube does not fill the whole space between floor and ceiling, thus creating the effect of a floating form.
When the visitors stand inside the cavity, they are wrapped in a cloud of special balls. In this way they will experience the boundary as well as the perception of the endlessness of space. The cavity is enveloped, but due to reflections also the perception of an infinite space is created. The reflective surfaces offer a view into a space that does not exist, suggesting unexpected new vistas. With light projections, the perception of the cube is influenced. These light projections change the cavities colour, shape and size, thus offering a different appearance each time. From the outside the cavity can be seen as a changing illuminated shape between the light reflections of the cube. On the wall of the exhibition room samples of architectural work of Bekkering Adams architects are shown -expressive architecture with a tactile expression of material and detail- relating to the idea of Form/ContraForm. Where once the infinite space had to be clearly defined in order to be understood, current technology and globalization have abolished the perception of 'infinity'. Our space is no longer infinite, our resources are no longer limitless, our earth is no longer endless. The disappearance of the 'infinity' is illustrated by projections relating to the blurring boundaries of endlessness.
藝術家自述
(是次展覽只提供其原型版本)
裝置作品基本宮球反映了時間、空間和存在的概念和定義。裝置的表層被視為每個人所需的基本空間。建築基本是空間中的坐標縱橫交錯而成的。作品基本宮球是一個處理質量對空洞的空間經驗，意圖提供一種超越有形、跳脫物理空間邊界的經驗。
展覽空間內，裝置為2.4×2.4米立方體，由14000個球體由天花上的10×10厘米格狀結構懸垂而成。立方體為空間提供質量。當觀者可隨意進入立方體，其空間創造了空洞感。裝置並未有佔據展間的所有空間，在天花與地面中間成就其懸浮狀態。
當觀者站立於裝置中間，他們會被球體包圍，透過這樣的經驗，他們可以同時感受空間的邊界以及其無盡性。空間被包裹，但透過反射創建了一個無限的空間。反射面提供了一個不存在的空間，為觀者提供一個意想不到的新景觀。光線投射改變了觀者對裝置的感知經驗；這些光線投射改變了顏色、形狀與大小，並且每次均提供不同外觀。從外觀至，透過立方體的光線投射會看見一個持續變化的光體 。展間內並會展出事務所以基本宮球為靈感所出發的建築作品。
曾被定義及理解的「無限空間」，已被目前的科技及全球化廢除其無限之感。我們的空間不再無限，我們的資源不再無限，我們的地球已不再是無止境的。作品透過關於無限的模糊邊界投射去展現「無窮大」的消失。