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.



摄影师和设计师共同合作，向公众展示Veasley的艺术过程，其中包括捕捉X射线图像，以及后期制作和最终展示。

“我们决定将画廊放置在与曾经大棚相同的位置，并且为东西朝向。”Hollaway说，“建筑使用坚固又现代的材料，如波纹金属板。”

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."



低矮的画廊入口，外挂波纹金属板，像是相机的取景框一样让人们宛如步入一张巨大的照片之中，外部由倾斜的木制透镜铰接，屋顶的天窗让光线间接照到展览作品上，避免直射光源，减少对作品效果的影响。

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.



用于X射线的高大空间，让人想起肯特郡的Oast住宅。从X射线机的展开形式开始，空间有一定的起伏，“X射线机越高，物体越大，捕获的内容就越多。”Hollaway解释说。

“以同样的方式，Oast住宅的形式由它们的功能驱动，方法上没有区别。”

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"



设计师与X射线专家合作，确保空间围合的墙体能够充分保护射线，因此它们在底部采用厚600毫米的混凝土，并且会随着结构的增加而变薄。

经过两天的现场浇筑，室内光滑的模板让混凝土表面充满光泽。

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的设计是X射线过程的功能反映，是真正的形式跟随功能。” Hollaway说。 “我们希望这种建筑内外表达的内容一致，并使用简单的色彩，例如抛光混凝土地板和覆层内饰。”

Process画廊面向公众开放，Veasley希望将工作室周围的景观变为雕塑公园。

在Kent Guy， Hollaway在肯特郡乡村小屋进行现代扩建，并在Margate设计了一系列类似于传统海滩小屋的海滨别墅。

"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.