KAIROS是由建筑师JoãoQuintela与Tim Simon于2012年合作创建，利用该公司的预制混凝土Gracifer，并受到里斯本建筑三年展支持的一个项目。该项目为抑制性的不可持续发展的社会及经济环境提供了一个答案，以空间中心主题，目的在于鼓励，生产和展示特定地点的装置。

　　Form the architect : KAIROS is a project created in 2012 by the architects JoãoQuintela and Tim Simon in partnership with the company’s prefab concrete Gracifer (www.gracifer.pt) and with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale's support (www.trienaldelisboa.com) as an answer to an inhibitor and unsustainable social and economic context, with the aim of encouraging, generating and presenting site-specific installations in which Space appears as the central theme.

　　来自事务所的描述。这是一个非营利项目，展馆的目的在于接受来自建筑师或艺术家的方案。展出日期总是会在受邀方案期以及公开征集选定方案期之间改变。这些都是原创设计，他们从这个空间发展出来，能够利用该空间的特点并且能够通过建筑自身的研究与之对话。
　　从这个概念出发，并抛开博物馆和美术馆的制度化线路，这个空间是公共的，并免费向所有参与者和所有能够与展出日期配合的方案开放，以此让不同世代的人们和不同领域的项目之间都能够产生碰撞和互动。向KAIROS展馆提交方案的邀请对所有建筑，绘画，表演，话剧，音乐以及其他艺术语言开放。这些不同艺术形式中的参与者觉得能够适合这个概念，这对接近创作者以及公众都很有帮助。

　　It’s a pavilion - non profit project - that intends to receive interventions proposed by architects or artists and the calendar always changes between periods of invited proposals and periods of selected interventions from an open call. These projects should be created as an original work developed for this space exploiting his characteristics and dialoguing with the ambiences through their own and personal research.

　　Following this concept, and moving away from the institutional circuit of museums and galleries, the space is intended to be public, free and open to all the participants and proposals that want to integrate the exhibition’s calendar and by this generate the meeting and interaction between different generations and multidisciplinary projects.The invitation to participate and submit proposals in KAIROS Pavilion is open to architecture, fine arts, performance, theatre, music and other artistic languages in which the participants feel that fits inside this concept contributing to approach creators and public.

　　从线性的和时间顺序上，“CHRONOS”和“KAIROS”是相反的，它是一个定义开放的以及象征性的时间，并且除非以其自身的本质是没有其他办法测量的。
　　建筑希望把两个明显不可调和的时间放到对话之中。自从远古时期以来，建筑便通过能够抵御时间的空间性和物质性来追求“永恒”。完全由天然石头建造而成的伟大寺庙和教堂，就能够一直与当代性共存。混凝土建筑无疑代表了现代性的传统，并且也在在追求永恒的象征性概念。

　　To the linear and chronological time ‘CHRONOS’ opposes ‘KAIROS’, an undefined and symbolic time which cannot be measured except by hisquality.
　　The building wants to put two apparently irreconcilable times in dialogue. Since the very ancient periods buildings aspire to the idea of the ‘eternal’ through a spatiality and materiality able to resist time. The great temples and cathedrals, completely made out of natural stone, continue to coexist with the contemporaneity. Concrete constructions represent undoubtedly the legacy of modernity and they recover as well this symbolic idea of eternity.

　　这种短暂与永恒之间的对垒是值得我们通过一个总体的观点，并用上所有时间能来研究的东西。这种预制解决方案能够同时处理这两个方面，因为这样我们便能够通过模数化的结构和简易的安装或拆卸，使用耐久的材料与连续的时间对话。
　　由JoãoQuintela和Tim Simon创建的KAIROS是作为一个对空间研究的结果出现的。这个空间研究参考了历史上对物质，光和时间的使用。混凝土的物质，太阳的光以及建于这两者的时间。这是一个关于比例的研究，也是一个关于小尺度的孤立模数和在文脉中的大尺度的建筑物本身之间关系的研究。

　　This confront between the temporary and the eternal is something worth researching through a general view to the possibilities that our time can offer us. This prefab solution is capable to deal simultaneously with these two aspects as it allows us working with a durable and resistant material dialoguing with continuous Time, through a modular construction and an easy assembly or disassembly.

　　KAIROS, created by JoãoQuintela and Tim Simon, appears as a result of a spatially research referenced in history through the use of Matter,Light and Time. The Matter of the Concrete, the Light of the Sun and the Time built from both. It’s an investigation about proportions and the relationship between the small scale of the isolated module and the large scale of the whole building itself in relation with the context.
　　空间由一个非常简单和原始的利用材料重叠和结合构件的结构系统建成的，这个结构利用了材料自身的重量而没有使用任何胶水或者螺丝钉。
　　在这个方形平面的内部还建有一个方形的内廷。因此，在一条同时上层及下层同时延伸的路径的周围存在着一个外围边界，这产生了两个相似的空间，却拥有是完全相反的气氛。一个是覆盖着的黑暗空间，另一个是户外的明亮空间。

　　The space is built by a very easy and primitive constructive system of overlapping and joining pieces, taking advantage of their own weight without using any glue or screws. It’s a square plan building with an inside square patio. Thus, there exists a perimeter all around that consists in a path developed both on the lower and upper level, generating two similar spaces with completely antagonistic ambiences. One is covered and black while the other is exterior and bright.
　　内庭是由镜面一般的水面划分出来的。水面反射着天空和倒影，从而复制了空间。这成为了中心元素，不能接触却发人深省，能冻结时间，建立起一个深刻的时空与过去进行对话。这个最重要的空间因为其无法征服而获得了象征意义。
　　The inner patio is defined by the mirror created through the water inside which reflects the sky and duplicates the space. This becomes the central element, inaccessible and contemplative, able to freeze time and build an intimate moment, a dialogue with the past. Becomes the most significant space and acquires symbolism due to his impossible conquer.
　　建筑师：João Quintela and Tim Simon
　　馆长：Fabrícia Valente
　　沟通：Teresa Teixeira
　　建造者：Isabel Gomes, Gracifer Derivados de Cimento
　　工程师：Manuel Gameiro, AJZ Construções
　　协调人团队：José Gonçalves
　　建设团队：José Ramos, Artur Panchuck, António Santos, Florbela Pestana e Reinaldo Gomes
　　摄影：Diana Quintela
　　日期：2012
　　地点：葡萄牙里斯本
　　功能：为展出当地特定设计的展馆
　　材料：预制混凝土
　　Architects: João Quintela and Tim Simon
　　Curator: Fabrícia Valente
　　Comunication: Teresa Teixeira
　　Builder: Isabel Gomes, Gracifer Derivados de Cimento
　　Engineer: Manuel Gameiro, AJZ Construções
　　Coordinator's Team: José Gonçalves
　　Construction's Team: José Ramos, Artur Panchuck, António Santos, Florbela Pestana e Reinaldo Gomes
　　Photography: Diana Quintela
　　Date: 2012
　　Location: Lx Factory, Lisbon, Portugal
　　Use: Pavilion for site-specific interventions
　　Materials: Prefab Concrete
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