建筑师： META-工作室 (META-Project)
地点： 中国，辽宁，沈阳
设计团队： 王硕、张婧、常倩倩、黄丽妙、林昌炎、汤恒
业主：  万科企业股份有限公司（China VANKE Co., Ltd.）
面积： 30 m2
年份：2012
摄影：  陈溯
•        中国，沈阳，META-工作室，特色公共设施类
Architects: META – Project
Location: Shenyang, Liaoning, China
Design Team: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing, Chang Qianqian, Huang Limiao, Lin Changyan, Tang Heng
Client: China VANKE Co., Ltd.
Area: 30 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Chen Su
•        Featured Public Facilities Selected Works China META-Project Shenyang

来自建筑师的描述。位于北京的研究-设计工作室“META-工作室”近期于中国，沈阳完成了一个水塔改造项目。该改造力图将新的生命以一种复杂精巧的方式植入到旧的工业遗址内。
From the architect. META-Project, a Beijing based research-design studio has recently completed a renovation for VANKE in Shenyang, China that infused new life into the dilapidated water tower in an exquisite manner.

水塔位于一个老厂区内，其前身为中国人民解放军第一一〇二工厂，这是一家成立于一九五九年大跃进时期的军工厂。作为中国曾经最主要的重工业基地，沈阳铁西区充满了从那一时期保留下来的大大小小的工业遗迹。分布于城市各处的水塔似乎成了反映着这一区域工业历史的独特印记，标识着在持续不断变革的现实中此区域仍可辨的锚固点。2010年，围绕此水塔周边的改造开始。
This water tower is located in the campus of a run down military factory, formerly known as the People’s Liberation Army No.1102 Factory, founded in 1959 during the Great Leap Forward. Formerly one of the most important heavy industrial production bases of China, the Tiexi District in Shenyang is now full of miscellaneous industrial relics from that time period. Water towers scattered around the city have become unique symbols of the history of industrialization in this area and the visual anchor points in the ever-shifting reality of this region. The transformation around this particular water tower began starting in 2010.

万科集团将此军工厂收购，将其改造为沈阳蓝山居住项目用地。伴随着周边城市的果断建设，这一水塔得以完好的保留－作为原有工业历史的记忆片段，期望能够在未来提供某种公共功能。
VANKE, China acquired the campus of this military factory, converting it into what is called the Blue Mountains residential complex project. Along with the decisive construction of the surrounding cities, the water tower has remained well preserved – functioning partially as a reminder of the fragmented memory of the history of industrialization, as well as serving as a projection of unexpected public use in the future.

对于META-工作室来说，此水塔被重新定义为一种“公共遗址建筑”，提供了似乎是精心设计的线索。“公共遗址建筑”是一个十分含糊的对象，或从其外观暗示了一些其他的用途，或偏离其意，超越了其原有的一般用途。公共遗址建筑的定义“因人而异”，只有在一定的物理背景和历史背景之下才有特定的意义和定位。该水塔位于如下背景之下：从空间上，它恰巧位于铁西区遗留的工业肌理与即将兴起的复合型居住社区之间的边缘上；时间上，脱离过去的重工业历史，转型并加速发展的铁西区又将它推到这一新旧时间的交汇点上。
For META-Project, the water tower, which is re-interpreted as a type of “Public Folly”, has provided deliberate clues. A “Folly” is a highly ambiguous built object that either suggests by its appearance some other purpose or is so eccentric that it transcends the common usage to which it belongs. The definition of a folly “lies in the eyes of the beholder”, and it only makes sense in the precise positioning within its physical and historical context. The water tower is situated in such context: spatially – it is situated on the edge in-between the inherited industrial fabric and an upcoming residential complex development; temporally – it is sitting on the dividing line which separates where Tiexi has deviated from the industrial past and where it is accelerating towards an alternative future.

置于如此特别的定位，META-工作室藉此展开了如何将这一水塔置于连续时空中，而非将其视为一个孤立事件的改造思路。改造后的水塔展廊，或称“公共遗址建筑”，其外观形成城市景观中的一个艺术品，而其室内将为周边落成后的社区提供一个新的公共活动空间。即便在日常的使用功能之上，它也可能成为一种适应性的装置，以便如同一个过渡或是铰链一样，重建去除的两边的连接。
Setting off from the precise positioning within this context, META-Project started to unfold the concept of the renovation along this space time continuum as opposed to taking it as an isolated event. The renovated water tower pavilion, or the “Public Folly”, on the outside forms an artistic intervention in the urban landscape, and on the inside it offers a space for public activities for the surrounding communities. Even transcending mundane usage, it functions almost as an adaptive device, able to re-create linkages from two removed sides – like a transmission, or a hinge…

记忆是一个地方不可磨灭的属性，像东西的翻版，刮掉原来的文字不会完全泯灭其在城市中的全面理解。这也将移植到分布沈阳工业城市的水塔的保存工作上。每到夜晚，厚重的水塔渐渐在黑暗中隐去，而明亮的发光体将成为漂浮在空中的鲜明信号，象征着追求隐藏在历史和建筑原型背后的东西.从那里，水塔将历史和现实的对比变成完全中立的空间——成为外部世界一个简单的感应器，一个耳朵，或一个取景器...... 透过此水塔的改造，META-工作室提出疑问，将如何看待这段历史？又如何理解不断变化的现实？
While memory is the ineffaceable attribute of a place, like the palimpsest, the original text scraped off will not completely disappear in the overall comprehension of the city. This will also lend to a re-interpretation of the other dozens of preserved water towers scattered around the industrial city of Shenyang. Every night, as the heavy water tower gradually fades into darkness, the bright light boxes will become distinct signals floating in the air symbolizing a quest to seek out the hidden corner of the history and archetypes of architecture. From there, the water tower digests the opposition of history and reality into a completely neutral space – it becomes a simple sensory device of the external world, an ear, or a viewfinder…Through renovation of the water tower, META-Project posts the question again on how to look at the history and how to understand the changing reality?

Cut Model 切割模型

Plans 平面图

Elevation and Plans 立体图和平面图

Section 截面图

Section 截面图

Interior Views 室内景观

Overall Axo 整体轴测图

Exploded Axo 分解轴测图

Concept Diagram 概念草图

Internal Installation 室内装潢

Physical Model物理模型

Physical Model物理模型

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