Blowing Bubbles into Buildings —— "Eden Project" in Britain
You must have played bubble blowing when you were a child. Whether it's the kind of rubber that sticks to the thin tube and blows bubbles, or the bubbles in the head of the blowing tube are constantly soaked with soapy water, whenever the bubbles get bigger, who can't help but be moved when they see the beautiful and colorful lovely balls there? Bubble's short life, with its unpredictable size, is so magical and evil in young minds. When a transparent bubble is blown into the sky, the child's imagination immediately dances with the wind.
Bo Lei was probably the first person who wanted to enlarge the circular bubble building. In the 20th century, the greatest contribution of American architects was not to build amazing great buildings, but to put forward a fascinating theory-"the dome of the net wire ball". He claimed that using a small part, such as iron pipes, plastic pipes and even cartons, they could be assembled into a space as big as China's feet, and such a space could be infinitely enlarged. The foam-like building organized in this way can be regarded as the result of "complete contraction of tension" We know that under the same capacity, the pressure on the surface of space in the form of a sphere is the smallest, and the external pressure on the inside is the most uniform. This is why Fulei is promoted as a master of contemporary high-tech architecture.
"Eden Project" is one of the Millennium planning cases in Britain. At the beginning, from the overall scale of the plan, the base area was as high as 22 hectares, and the building area was as wide as 2 hectares. The overall engineering style matched NT$ 400 million, which shows the ambition of this case. The base is located in the secluded Cornwall county. If you start from London, it will take at least three days for 1 to travel back and forth. If the number of tourists far exceeds expectations, things will be a mess. However, no one expected the plan to be unexpectedly successful. At first, it was expected to reach 750,003 visitors a year, but it was only opened for eight months, and the number of visitors has exceeded the expected 200%. Traffic jam has become the most troublesome problem. So the authorities kept telling people that it is best to choose the afternoon when there are few people, so as not to affect the quality of the visit, and it is best to buy tickets in advance to avoid long queues. It has been more than a year since the opening of the building. Jinggang, the building square has begun to carry out new expansion planning.
In fact, it is revealed that the "Eden Project" is to build a greenhouse with big plants. The national strength of the British Empire reached a peak in the19th century. After several years of colonialism, Britain sought to cut off the source of that kind of wealth flowing from all over the world and collected a wealth of knowledge. Britain is good at synthesis, induction, analysis and arrangement. Static cultural relics can be collected, as well as living plants. The creatures in Eden are plants from all over the world. At present, the two largest greenhouses can be seen, one is humid tropical and the other is temperate Mediterranean. The indoor display mode is completely based on creating a complete ecological environment, rather than displaying it separately according to classification. For example, a specially designed waterfall in a tropical greenhouse, where water rushes down from a height to create many water sprite, provides a favorable environment for orchids to cling to the trunk and grow. The ecosystem is alive and needs more and more professional care, so the technicians in the building can see the brilliance of shuttling through the flowers at any time.
Moving in such a big space, I have forgotten that my body is in a wrapped and artificially controlled environment. The original design of this building is really not like this. The people who planned the case at the beginning favored this base so much as never before, which was entirely due to environmental awareness. It used to be a newly abandoned kaolin mine. People maliciously dug a big hole in the dark green land, exposing an incomplete gray rock and soil in the high school, and the death was very miserable. A wise man is good at turning decay into magic. History is particularly impenetrable in thinking that the irregular slopes of clay mines can be used to create the appearance of natural gardens, so he invited Nicholas Grimshaw, an architect who is good at dealing with irregular foundations, to take charge of the design of this case. In his previous award-winning work "Waterloo Station in London", this high-tech private architect has a long bend, a big head and a small base, which are connected by steel bars of different sizes and a big station space like an amoeba. Of course, the challenge that Grimshaw is facing this time is even more terrible. In addition to the geographical bend, geography is also the highest. What should I do? At the beginning of the design, architects used to be very skilled, hoping to wrap the greenhouse with a continuous list of curved steel. Only this time, one of the feet is on a slope, not on the flat ground, and the size of steel will definitely change with the ups and downs of geography. Different sizes and shapes of building modules will increase the construction cost, and it is not easy to send them to remote mountainous areas. 1 Whether the design method is appropriate or not is a matter of different opinions. What's important is whether there is a plan and courage to break through the bottleneck in the current situation. Before the closing of the case, the architects at that time changed their ideas and changed all the original problems to the most regular "mesh ball top" to deal with the irregular steel bars on the uneven whole ground, which was unexpectedly solved.
The biggest advantage of bubble type is that it can be fascinating and completely positioned in any geography and geography, and the three-dimensional space induction force of bubble type sphere can make the span extend more unscrupulously. That is to say, for Li Lei, who has created this structural method half a century ago, probably 10000 10000 did not expect that such a foam building would be developed at this point. Of course, the architect Grimshaw didn't directly use Fulei's short-term balls. He bundled several balls of different sizes to make the indoor space develop longer. Seen from the long section, this span is as long as 240 degrees. After being re-spliced by sensitive professionals of architects, the sphere of 100% rational architecture has emerged with a strange appearance.
This kind of building structure is learned from a pile of bubbles. In fact, there are many people who get architectural inspiration from natural physical phenomena in the name of architects. In order to break the rigid rules of the square plane, Gao also tried to create a new possibility of space form when designing the residence of Bahana Milla, that is, after the circular bubble space formed when the cells pushed each other.
Another important hero is also the most incredible place in this case, which is the new material ETFE (ethyl tetrafluoroethylene, my god! This new word has 24 letters. This is a kind of air flushing with film structure. The film surface is smooth and the falling dust is not easy to attach, so it can keep warm and insulate. Because the breathable film is a 3 F isolated structure, it can resist hot or cold weather and prevent ultraviolet rays. According to the manufacturer of German company, the service life of this translucent film can reach 40 years! The frosted optical module is easy to construct, maintain and replace, which is absolutely enough to subvert the high dependence of modern buildings on glass. However, don't be too happy, since it is refreshing, of course, it will cool down. In order to maintain the external wall with film pasting function (which must be protected from wind and rain), it must keep its satisfactory protruding appearance at any time, so each film pasting is equipped with an air pipe, and the air pressure can be replenished into the bag at any time by using a water pump. As an external wall building material that does not accept heavy weight and is not heavy by itself, the development of gas film will make many buildings keep their form and change their essence in the near future!
People who come to visit this place can see foam buildings from a distance before they enter the greenhouse. As far as the shape of light is concerned, some of it does not constitute the proper shape, but as the distance gets closer and closer, it is even harder to believe how bubbles can become buildings. I can't help but want to touch the movies that have angered me, just like others blowing bubbles when I was a child. I ran after seven colorful and dazzling bubbles like a little idiot. Of course, the moment I ran into the bubbles was the moment when beauty disappeared. The beauty and mystery of the deep building and the shadow are as easy as that of the shadow, so the building deliberately avoids the crowd in its configuration, so that it can maintain its own sacred image of "only seeing from a distance, not being close to the play".
Essentially, the Eden Project is a design case of a botanical garden, nothing special, but the story is full of symbolic significance and value from beginning to end. It's like many rings in hand are not necessarily beautiful or valuable, but the story of the ring also has its special symbol, which is the real reason for its priceless.
The nobleness of architecture cannot be calculated only from artistic or technical achievements, but in fact, it is more important spiritual achievements.
The building square in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has been opened for a long time.
We often use a "square box" to describe a house with a general shape and no interest. However, the "square box" mentioned here is nothing at all, because it is hung in the air of an equilateral cube and turned at a 45-degree solid angle, which makes the originally inconspicuous body suddenly flexible. The creativity of architects has not been highly praised!
The collective residence on Rotterdam Bay was built in the mid-1980s when "postmodernism" was wild. Because of the novel and interesting shape of the house, people nicknamed it "Square House". Since then, the city has added a new tourist attraction. In order to visit more, the community simply set up a visit in those houses to satisfy people's curiosity and make some change for the community conveniently.
Of course, this strange house is for people to live in, just like the indispensable space in ordinary families, such as living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. There is everything here, even the roof and the rising 1 3 sides are exposed attics. Each square block lives in 1, and each household has its own stairs to go up and down. Because the interior of the space is weird, all the furniture follows the design of the house at the same time. The poor residents have no choice but to accept it all. If they look uncomfortable, they can go up and change their colors. The windows are inclined to one side, so the natural light source in the room is very sudden, which is completely different from the window opening method and light angle of ordinary houses.
From a professional point of view, these houses are playing tricks, wasting space and not necessarily practical. However, why do more people come to live and watch here than ordinary residential communities? People's rationality comes from logical thinking, but people's dreams need creativity, imagination and step-by-step experiments to complete. This point lies in that it subdues people's stereotype of housing and completes human's pursuit of "impossible".
Why is our house always a fixed square block? Throw it in the air and turn around, will you?
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