回 | 萬物歸宗

　　設計機構：C.DD | 尺道設計事務所(www.cddesign.cn)

　　總設計師：何曉平、李星霖

　　項目團隊：余國能、梁一輝、呂灼明、蔡鐵磊

　　攝 影：歐陽云

　　項目地點：廣東佛山

　　裝置面積：9㎡

　　主要材料：沖孔鋼板、鍍膜鋼化玻璃、竹子

　　展示時間：2015年 – 2016年

　　這是個3米×3米×3米的立方體裝置。空間不大，但承載了設計師對于自己家鄉廣東佛山的感情和思考。設計的核心理念可以用四個字概括——“萬物歸宗”。

　　實際上，這個裝置是設計師在廣州設計周-城市表情板塊的邀請下，完成的一件代表佛山的展品。由于展方有空間限制要求，設計師選擇了可以擁有最大容積的立方體作為裝置的載體，以呈現“城市”這個廣大的主題。而立方體的運用，也讓設計師得以圍繞“萬物歸宗”這一核心理念，構筑一趟去往“佛山”也回歸本心的旅程。

　　從結構上看，設計師用竹子繞著立方體的幾何中心圍出了一個更小的長方體空間。由此，沿著立方體的四個側立面，一條能容納一人通行的單向走道就被辟出。這是旅行的路。但如果自上而下俯看整個空間的橫截面就會看見，竹子墻和外立面墻的兩個方形實際上拼出了一個象征“歸宗”的“回”字。

　　“回”的過程從在進入裝置之前已經展開。觀眾從外面的世界由狹小的入口獨身進入裝置，和著帶有儀式感的背景音樂緩步繞行裝置一周，透過根根竹子間的縫隙，看到擺在空間正中央的南獅和牛皮鼓，就是經歷了一次環境和內心都由外到內的旅行。而這樣的旅程如果從空間層次上看，從外界環境，到外立面的鋼板材料，到內墻使用的竹子，再到被竹子圍起的南獅、牛皮鼓，還經歷了由現代到古老，由新到舊的過程，會給觀眾以另一個維度的啟迪。

　　對于設計師而言，所謂“宗”是佛山，也是懷著初心的本我。擺在空間正中央的南獅正是發源于佛山市南海縣西樵地區，因此能代表佛山一部分重要的傳統文化，也能象征設計師的根。而舞獅就需要擊鼓，因此一張未經裝飾的牛皮鼓原型被置于南獅白胚之下，二者成套出現。值得一提的是，選用南獅白胚而非已點睛裝飾的南獅是因為，設計師可以利用白胚的透光性，通過在胚內放置閃爍的彩燈，來豐富南獅的意象。正如鼓聲引導舞獅的情緒和動作，空間內的背景音樂可以和彩燈的閃爍形成配合。那么在觀眾看來，南獅時而紅、時而綠，表現出的也是不同的感情。

　　代表佛山的意象還出現在了外立面上——設計師用小孔在鋼板墻面上拼出了佛山市和南海縣的地圖以及“佛山”兩個字。從功能性上說，這一方面能加強空間的透氣性，使得參觀者能有更好的感受。另一面，這些小洞也為空間透了光——除此之外，整個空間只有竹子隔出的長方體頂面有塊玻璃為空間提供了自然照明。從意境上說，考慮到過道的天花板和地板都使用了鏡子，當小孔中透入陽光，在鏡子的折射下，整個空間會變得更加神秘、虛幻、多變。這正是心靈之旅所需要營造的意境。而這樣的意境還會隨裝置本身擺放位置不一樣而變化——陽光照射角度的變化，使得小孔透光造成的光影圖畫又會是另一番模樣

　　設計師坦言，整個設計過程更像是一次重新學習和領悟家鄉傳統文化的過程。不過由于空間有限，能表述的也有限。她只希望通過這樣精選式的設計表達，能讓更多人關注佛山，感悟佛山。而在更大的層面說，她希望每個觀眾都能受到裝置的啟發，重視家鄉傳統文化的傳承，關注自己的內心根源，不管他們來自哪里，身處何方。

　　Hui | Origin of Everything

　　Design Company: C.DD (www.cddesign.cn)

　　Chief Designer: HE Xiao-Ping, LI Xing-Lin

　　Project Team: YU Guo-Neng, LIANG Yi-Hui, LV Zhuo-Ming, CAI Tie-Lei

　　Location: Foshan, Guangdong, China

　　Area: 9㎡

　　Main Materials: perforated steel plate, LOW-E, bamboo

　　Photographer: OUYANG Yun

　　Display Time: 2015 - 2016

　　It is a cubic architectural installation of 3m*3m*3m. This is not a large space; however, it carries the designers’ great affection and thinking for their hometown Foshan. The core concept of the design could be summed up in one phrase” Origin of everything”.

　　Actually, this architectural installation is an exhibit represents Foshan designed by the designers when invited by Expressions of The City during Guangzhou Design Week. Because the organizer sets limitations to the size of exhibition work, so the designers choose a cube which has the largest volume as the carrier of the architectural installation to express the vast theme “city”. The use of the cube allows the designers to present a journey back to “Foshan” and their original minds around the core concept of “Origin of everything”.

　　For the structure, the designers use bamboos to form a smaller rectangular space around the geometric center of the cube. A one-way path which allows passage of only one person is thus built along the four lateral facades of the cube. This is the road for the journey. However, when look at the cross section of the whole space from above, the two squares created by the bamboo wall and exterior wall together form the Chinese character “Hui”, which symbolizes “return to the origin”

　　The process of “Hui”has begun before visitors enter into the architectural installation. Visitors could come into this space alone through a narrow entrance, walk slowly and circle the space with the playing of background music which has a sense of ritual. While looking through the gaps between the bamboos, semi-finished Chinese Southern lion and Chinese leather drum placed in the centre could be seen; it is like a journey from outside to inside of both your inner self and the environment. In respect of spatial level , this journey , from external environment, the steel plate material of the fa?ade, to the bamboo of the inner wall, and then to the traditional prototypes which enclosed by bamboo, allows visitors to experience the process from modern to ancient and from new to old, and offers visitors enlightenment from a different angle.

　　For the designers, “Origin” means Foshan and the original selves. The Chinese Southern lion placed at the right centre of the space is originated from Xiqiao district, Nanhai county, Foshan. Thus it represents part of Foshan’s important traditional culture and it represents the root of the designers as well. Beatings of drum is necessary when performing a lion dance, so a primitive leather drum prototype is placed under the white body of the Chinese Southern lion, they appear as one set. What is worth mentioning is that, the designers choose semi-finished Chinese Southern lion instead of a completed Chinese Southern lion with eyes is because that they could take use of the light permeability of the white body; they could make the image of the Chinese Southern lion more rich through placing flashing lights inside the white body. As the beatings of the drum leads the emotions and actions of the lion dance, the background music in this space matches with the flashing colorful lights. So visitors would see the lion in red or in green from time to time, and the colors express different emotions.

　　The imagery which represents Foshan also appeared on the fa?ade – the designers piece together the maps of Foshan city and Nanhai county and the words “Foshan”on the steel plate wall with small holes. Functionally, it strengthens the ventilation of the space and gives visitors a better feeling on the one hand; on the other hand, these small holes bring light to the space – apart from that, only the rectangular roof which is partitioned off by bamboos that could provide natural light for the space. From the aspect of artistic conception, considering that mirrors are used in both the ceiling and floor of the corridor, when sunlight enters into the space through the holes, under the reflection of the mirror, the whole space will become more mysterious, fantasy and changeable. This is the artistic conception needed to be created for the journey of our mind. And such artistic conception will change according to the position that the installation is placed— when the angle of the sunshine changed, the picture create by light through the holes will change accordingly.

　　The whole design process is more like a process of re-learning and understanding of the traditional culture of their hometown, said the designers. But due to the limit of space, so what could be expressed is limited as well. What they hope is that through this well-chosen design expression, more and more people could pay attention to Foshan and try to understand Foshan. From higher level, the designers hope every visitor could be inspired by the architectural installation so as to pay more attention to their hometown’s traditional culture and the original self, no matter where they come from and where they are.