混凝土金字塔外形的摄影工作室
Guy Hollaway creates photography studio with concrete pyramid for X-ray apparatus
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Guy Hollaway Architects事务所为英国摄影师Nick Veasey设计了一座摄影工作室,该工作室外观上为一座混凝土金字塔,摄影师在里面可以通过X射线设备制作他独特的作品。
工作室位于肯特郡Lenham村附近林地的空旷地带,这是一座“充满好奇心的建筑”。
摄影工作室包括有小型工作空间、小画廊,以及由重金属门连接起来的X光室。
Guy Hollaway Architects has completed a studio for British photographer Nick Veasey, featuring a concrete pyramid chamber to house the X-ray equipment used to create his distinctive works.
Standing alone in an open field fringed by woodlands near the village of Lenham in Kent, the Process Gallery was designed to be an "inquisitive piece of architecture".
The photography studio comprises two elements: a low volume housing a workspace and small gallery, and a tall X-ray chamber, linked by a heavy metal door.
Together, they are designed to "expose" Veasley's artistic process to the public, from the capture of X-Ray images to their post-production and eventual display.
"We decided to put the gallery in the same position and east-west orientation as the former big shed", said Hollaway, "using robust but contemporary material such as corrugated metal cladding."
The low, corrugated metal-clad gallery volume is defined by a large picture window inspired by a camera lens, articulated externally by an angled wooden reveal.
Skylights help to flood the gallery's simple plywood interior with light.
The tall pyramid X-Ray chamber, reminiscent of Kentish Oast houses, takes its form from the splay of the X-Ray machine, which can be hoisted up and down the space – "the higher the X-ray machine, the larger the object which can be captured", explains Hollaway.
"In the same way the form of Oast houses was driven by their function, this approach isn't any different"
The firm worked with an X-Ray expert to ensure the space's walls would offer sufficient protection from the rays, which required them to be 600mm thick at the base, thinning as the structure rises.
Poured on-site in two days, the smooth formwork of the chamber has lent the concrete a glossy sheen in places.
“这是一个与世隔绝的冷空间,像大教堂一样,夏天凉爽,冬天则更加寒冷。”建筑师说。
在它的顶部,有一个小天窗引入光线,建筑外部刻着“Nick Veasey工作室”,兼有放射性符号。
"It has been designed as a cold space without insulation, so like a cathedral it is cool in the summer and cold in the winter", said the architects.
At its peak, a small skylight draws light down, and the exterior is emblazoned with "Nick Veasey Studio", beneath a radioactive symbol.
"Nick Veasey's work is a function of the result of the X-Ray process, an honest revealing of what is beneath the surface", said Hollaway. "We wanted this architecture to be equally honest and use a very simple palette, such as polished concrete floors and a ply-clad interior".
Process Gallery is open to the public and in time Veasley hopes to transform the studio"s surrounding landscape into a sculpture park.
Also in Kent Guy Hollaway designed a contemporary extension to his country cottage in Kent and has created a series of seaside houses in Margate that are intended to resemble traditional beach huts.