来自专筑编辑雷君，刘庆新的报道。对集装箱这种模块化和价格低廉的国际贸易产品进行再利用已经成为近年来流行的建筑现象。Mahiar Behrooz 对他所设计的艺术工作室进行答疑，还有关于他用两个集装箱完成的在长岛的设计的看法。

Reusing shipping containers-those modular and affordable products of international trade-has become an architectural phenomenon in recent years. Mahiar Behrooz answered some questions about his design of an artist studio and viewing space on Long Island built from two containers.

Rear view at night/屋后的夜景。Photo: Dalton Portella

获得项目委托的背景？

我们的客户是一个艺术家兼DJ，一年前我们就已经为他们提供了住所翻新服务。她需要一个艺术工作室，她问我们，在一年前完成施工的现有住宅之外，还能否想办法用不到100000美元建立大概850平方英尺的空间。

What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project?
Our client is an artist and a DJ whose house we had renovated and added to a year earlier. She needed an art studio and asked us, a year after the addition to the original house was completed, to figure out a way to build roughly 850sf of space for under $100,000.

Front view at dusk/屋前的黄昏景象。Photo: Francine Fleischer

请您描述一下设计过程。

现场条件--抬高的地面，树木葱郁，远离公众视线--及其项目的简洁性是设计的灵感来源。我觉得与郁郁葱葱的自然环境相比，我们可以用功能性自身为代表，来展示其实用性的特点。

设计中避免了繁文缛节和形式主义。这倒为我们节省了预算，这也使得建筑看起来更真实，恰到好处的展示了其特点：一个盒子，一个可以触摸到北极光的盒子。

通过把建筑物从隐喻和象征性中抽离出来的方法，使得观赏者转移注意力，不再注重形式。我们为客户设计了一个空巢，她可以在这里专注于她的艺术工作。

Can you describe your design process for the building?
The intensity of site conditions -high ground, wooded lot, away from public view- and the simplicity of the program inspired a different way of conceiving this building. I felt that we could let the program simply express itself in its utter pragmatism and in contrast with the dense natural surroundings.
I avoided extraneous articulations of detail and form. This helped us maintain a limited budget. It also helped create an authentic building that can be no more or less than what it needs to be: a box that can receive an even northern light.
By shifting the viewer's focus away from the form and by liberating the building from metaphor and symbol, we created a hollowed space that would not distract from our client's goal of creating and viewing her artwork.

Lower level Studio/低层工作室。Photo: Francine Fleischer

竣工作品和原设计有何出入？在建设时期，两者发生了什么戏剧性的变化？

我允许在安装过程中有较大的误差，因为显然在我们开始施工前许多常规建筑方式必须被调整和确认。因此，在整体格局认真遵循我们的设计图的同时，也会对集装箱外观的细节和一些与地基连接的附件也会在施工期间进行临时调整。

How does the completed building compare to the project as designed? Were there any dramatic changes between the two and/or lessons learned during construction?
I allowed for large tolerances as it was clear before we began that many of the methods that we normally use in construction would have to be verified and confirmed during installation. Thus, while the overall assemblage follows our drawing carefully, the detailed articulation of openings in the skin of the container and the attachment of the containers to the foundation was improvised during construction.

Site Plan/场地平面图。Drawing: Maziar Behrooz

这个项目和你们设计的其他项目有什么相同点或不同吗？

集装箱工作室采用了大量的预制及再生材料，这说明了它和我们的典型构造方法还是有出入的；但到目前为止作为探索木建筑的替代品，它很好地与我们过去几年的研究相契合。事实上，它占据着拱形房子之间的优势位置，位于自撑的波纹钢和有新功能的拱形屋顶之间，开发了钢铁，混凝土和树脂的新功能。

How does the building compare to other projects in your office, be it the same or other building types?
In the sense that the Container Studio employs massive prefab & recycled components, it illustrates a departure in our typical methodology of construction; but in so far as it explores alternatives to wood building, it falls well within our research of the past few years. In fact it occupies a comfortable place between our Arc house which is made of a self-supporting corrugated steel arched roof and our Angle house which discovers new functionalities in steel, concrete and resin.

Upper Level Plan & West Elevation/上层平面图、西立面。Drawing: Frederic Debackere

这个项目怎样顺应了当代建筑的潮流，是鉴于它的可持续性还是技术性吗？

回收和再利用建筑材料，这是建筑业多年以来的传统。最近的潮流是使用集装箱作为建筑单元，这是因为美国和中国贸易顺差造成美国港口集装箱激增。因此我们应该缓解这种不平衡，减少我们整体建筑能源的使用。

How does the building relate to contemporary architectural trends, be it sustainability, technology, etc.?
Recycling and reusing materials has been a longstanding tradition in architecture. The recent surge in the use of containers as building blocks is partially due to the US-China trade surplus which has resulted in a massive surplus of containers in US ports. In that regard, we help alleviate this imbalance while reducing the overall energy used for the building of our product.

Section, N & S Elevations/剖面图、东北立面图。Drawing: Maziar Behrooz

你们工作室未来的作品会不会受到这个项目的影响呢？

到目前为止，我们所有的项目多多少少都会影响其他工作和探索，这个项目是由单一的多功能移动容器原型衍生过来的。原型会2010年八月，在纽约东汉普顿所罗门当代美术馆展出。

Are there any new/upcoming projects in your office that this building's design and construction has influenced?
So far as all of our projects lead into other work and explorations, this project is followed by a prototype for a single multi-purpose moving container. The prototype will be exhibited at the Salomon Contemporary gallery in East Hampton, NY in August of 2010.

E-mail interview conducted by John Hill/本文由JOHN HILL以电子邮件采访方式采写。

建筑设计：Maziar Behrooz Architecture，East Hampton
概念设计：Maziar Behrooz
项目团队：Frederic Debackere
室内设计：Andrea Shapiro
承包商：Hands on Construction, Kevin Baker
摄影：Francine Fleischer, Dalton Portella
占地面积：2.5 亩
建筑面积：850平方英尺

Architect: Maziar Behrooz Architecture, East Hampton
Design Principal: Maziar Behrooz
Project Team: Frederic Debackere
Interior Designer: Andrea Shapiro
Contractor: Hands on Construction, Kevin Baker
Photography: Francine Fleischer, Dalton Portella
Site Area: 2-1/2 acres
Building Area: 850 sf

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