回收塑料球变身地下钟乳石洞穴
Hou de Sousa Designs DuPont Underground's First Installation

由专筑网邵红佳，李韧编译

纽约建筑工作室为华盛顿有轨电车隧道举办了展览。

The revitalized Washington, D.C., streetcar tunnel opened with a readily re-configurable exhibit by the New York firm.



“Raise/Raze”由总部位于纽约的Hou de Sousa建筑工作室设计，这是一座有轨电车隧道，始建于1949年，位于城市DuPont Circle公园下方，但该站自从60年代早期就很少使用了。这里现在已经改造为一座临时艺术空间，该空间旨在展示文化艺术和建筑项目。

工作室负责人Jia Min Nancy Hou 和Josh de Sousa设计了该空间第一个的临时装置。这个装置由2015年夏天Snarkitecture在国家建筑博物馆设计的“The Beach”装置余料制作而成，其中包含650,000个塑料球。Hou de Sousa工作室的设计方案从当时92个竞赛作品中脱颖而出。

装置由一系列不透明塑料球组合而成，构成不同的功能与形式。有些特别像钟乳石，连接到地面，有的看起来十分简约，就是简单的矩形隔墙形态，并通过固件连接在一起，还有一个像堡垒，参观者甚至可以站在里面。 所有这些作品都由设计师和志愿者使用强力胶和工具亲手粘起来。

“Raise/Raze,” by the New York–based architectural studio Hou de Sousa is the inaugural installation for the, in Washington, D.C.—a former streetcar tunnel opened in 1949 beneath the city's DuPont Circle park and little used since the early 1960s. It has since been transformed into a contemporary art space that intends to display and promote cultural, artistic, and architectural projects.
Designed by the firm’s principals, Jia Min Nancy Hou and Josh de Sousa, the first temporary installation that the space will house is made out of the leftover, 650,000 plastic balls from this past summer’s Snarkitecture-designed “The Beach” installation at the National Building Museum across town. Hou de Sousa's design was selected from among 92 proposals submitted following a call for entries earlier this year.
The new installation features the opaque balls assembled in a series of configurations that vary in form and function. Some pieces echo stalactites so long they touch the ground. Others are simple, rectangular partitions that can be reconfigured and attached with fabric fastener patches. It also includes a fort-like semicircle large enough for visitors to stand inside. All were hand-assembled by designers and volunteers using Super Glue and tools to manipulate the plastic.



设计师解释说，Raise/Raze就像是真实版的“Minecraft”，只不过由游客可以轻易排列组合的轻质球组成。

Hou de Sousa describes Raise/Raze as something akin to a real-world version of Minecraft, with lightweight clusters of balls that visitors can rearrange



Raize /Raze由总部在纽约的Hou de Sousa工作室设计，该工作室在Dupont地下电车站的“Re-Ball!”比赛中脱颖而出。

Raize /Raze was the winning entry to Dupont Underground's "Re-Ball!" competition and was designed by New York-based firm Hou de Sousa.



2015年夏天，国家建筑博物馆海滩装置的余料塑料球被运往Dupont地铁站，并在华盛顿特区Dupont Circle公园下的前有轨电车隧道中组装。

Balls from the National Building Museum's Beach installation over the summer of 2015 were transported to Dupont Underground and assembled in the former streetcar tunnels beneath Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle.



Hou de Sousa工作室的作品入口可以重新组合，可堆叠在Dupont地下隧道内形成小型围栏。

图片：Deane Madsen

Hou de Sousa's Raise/Raze entry features reconfigurable clusters of balls that can be stacked to form small enclosures within the Dupont Underground tunnels