Matthew Butcher launches floating weather station on Essex's Thames Estuary

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Matthew Butcher设计的漂浮气象站被安置在洪水多发的泰晤士河口，在当前漂浮建筑盛行的趋势下意欲作为一种批判。

This floating weather station by Matthew Butcher has been cast adrift in the flood-prone Thames Estuary, and is intended as a critique on the current trend for floating architecture.

设计者是伦敦Bartlett建筑学院的讲师Butcher。气象站的主要功能在于监察南英格兰地区——泰晤士河与北海交界处的季节性洪水的潮汐涨落情况。

以棱角层与防风板组成的主体结构尺寸为5.5m×7.5m，漂浮在三个钢浮箱上。如果板上没有发动机，它就会被拖船拖往各地。

Designed by Butcher, a lecturer at London architecture school the Bartlett, Flood House aims to monitor tide fluctuations in the seasonally flooded landscape of southern England where the River Thames meets the North Sea.
The angular ply and weatherboard structure measures 5.5 metres by 7.5 metres and floats on three steel pontoons. Without a motor on board, it will be towed from site to site by a tugboat.

“这个设计使人联想起一些建筑——碉堡、地堡、钓鱼棚——那种你可以在沿岸看到的不可思议的建筑设施，”在一个关于漂浮建筑的访谈上，Butcher告诉Dezeen。

到5月14日的这期间，它将沿着埃塞克斯郡的泰晤士河口被安置在不同的基地上，监测当地的环境条件，这里越来越容易遭受洪水的侵袭。整个项目都会被记录在相关网站上。

"Its design is reminiscent of some of the architecture – pillboxes, the bunkers, the fishing sheds – the kind of weird infrastructure that you get all along that coast," Butcher told Dezeen in an interview about floating architecture.
It will be stationed at various sites along the Thames Estuary in Essex until 14 May and will monitor the conditions of the local environment, which is increasingly vulnerable to flooding. These will be recorded on the Flood House website throughout the project.

“通过提出一种建筑，在受到潮汐上升和下降的影响的地方，它可以从一个位置被拖到另一个位置，该项目旨在质疑建筑结构与环境的相互关系问题，”Butcher说。

“建筑通常被认为是一个稳定的、固定的实体，其内部温度和舒适度是被严格控制的，”他补充说。“该项目试图挑战这些观念，这意味着一种游牧式的建筑，它们与周围环境条件形成了一种反应性的关系。

"By presenting an architecture that is towed from one location to another and where occupation is effected by the rise and fall of the tides, the project seeks to question the way built structures relate to the environment," said Butcher.
"Architecture is usually considered to be a stable, fixed entity where internal temperature and conditions of comfort are heavily controlled," he continued. "Flood House seeks to challenge these notions, suggesting instead a nomadic architecture that forms a responsive relationship to its surrounding environmental conditions."

他补充说：“只有这样，我们才能开始应对气候变化和本世纪所带来的海平面变化问题。”

由于气候的改变和土地价格的增值，船屋和漂浮建筑受到空前的欢迎，Butcher的项目旨在重新评估这些建筑是否能真的解决问题。

He added: "Only this way can we start to address climate change and the dramatic shifts in sea levels that this century will bring."
With the popularity of house boats and floating architecture at an all-time high thanks to changes in climate and increasing land prices, Butcher's project aims to reevaluate whether these buildings really address the issue.

“对于漂浮住宅我的回答之一是它们只是看起来像房子，碰巧被安置在水面上，”他告诉Dezeen，“事实上关于建筑更基础的问题，它与环境和景观之间的关系问题不一定能被完美解决。”

"One of my issues with floating houses is that they just tend to look like houses that happen to have been put on the water," he told Dezeen, "But actually the more fundamental questions about architecture in relationship to the environment and the relationship to landscape are not necessarily being addressed."

Butcher与管理者Jes Fernie一起工作，在滨海绍森德的焦点画廊研究委托的计划和洪水住宅相关的活动。他们塑造了埃塞克斯工程的部分项目，探讨当地激进主义的政治、历史、生活方式和建筑。

摄影：Brotherton-Lock

Butcher worked with curator Jes Fernie and the Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea to develop a programme of commissions and events around Flood House. They form part of the Radical Essex project that explores radicalism in local history, politics, lifestyle and architecture.
Photography is by Brotherton-Lock.

Concept diagram/概念图

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