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虽然只有单调的混凝土灰色，Foro Normandie却使我想起曾经在印度的旅行，想到柯布西耶在1950年印度宣布独立之后为昌迪加尔设计的议会大厦。这座大厦在2016年的六月被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录。不过这一次，更值得被记起的并非柯布西耶的混凝土建筑，而是另外一项位于昌迪加尔的艺术杰作：Nek Chand的“岩石花园”。不同于柯布西耶对线条的使用以及完美的透视，Nek的雕塑花园致力于创造不完美，仿佛是对作为邻居的议会大厦进行的一场反向思考。

Despite the absence of color -only a monotonous concrete gray that lives within-, Foro Normandie reminds me of a trip to India. Precisely to Chandigarh and its Capitol, created by the illustrious Le Corbusier when independence of India was proclaimed in 1950 and a place that since June 2016 has been added to the list of UNESCO world heritage sites. For this occasion it is not Le Corbusier´s concrete to think of, but the garden located right behind Chandigarh, discovered by chance in a promenade to Nek Chand´s Rock Garden art piece. Apart from the straight traces and perfect perspectives of Le Corbusier, Nek´s sculpture garden is dedicated to imperfection, a kind of reflection in negative of his Capitol neighbor.

▼入口区域，entrance area

我们所谈论的是一个用柯布西耶理想城市中的“废料”建造起来的花园，它与喜马拉雅山的岩石混合在一起，呈现出一种纯稚的美感，仿佛是由一场场意外堆积而成。在什么样的场所中，建筑元素是可以不受束缚的？在什么样的情况下，这种“失控”可以不被视为一种失败？这两个问题也正是Foro Normandie的目标所在：利用混凝土的材料属性来进行实验，使其在被浇筑的过程中展现出一部分的自由。将项目建立在一系列的“意外”之上，看上去似乎不太有说服力，除非这些意外具有足够的价值并获得充分的尊重，从而能够上升到美学的维度。

We are talking about a garden elaborated with the construction waste of the perfect city of Le Corbusier, mixed with rocks of the Himalaya that arise from there, expressing a sort of art naïf aesthetic, a pile of accidents. What is the place we leave for uncontrolled elements in architecture and in which moment do we not consider it a failure? In Foro Normandie that was the objective: to experiment through the concrete textures leaving partially free the concrete pouring. To present or argue a project based on a series of accidents might seem in disadvantage except when these accidents are valued and respected, elevating them to an aesthetic attribute.

▼空间概览，overview

▼舞台区，stage

Foro Normandie坐落在墨西哥旧城中心一座建筑的地下室。大约在1940年时，它曾经是一间著名的卡巴莱餐馆，且拥有相同的名称：Normandie（法语的“诺曼底”）。1980年的地震之后，餐馆不见其踪。就像该地区的许多其他场所一样，诺曼底也逐渐沦为了那种声名狼藉的艳舞厅，直至被彻底封禁。而如今，它又作为旧城修复和改造计划的一部分出现在我们眼前。音乐厅的空间呈现出单一的物质性。混凝土为空间赋予了中立的特质，使艺术家能够尽情发挥，乃至彻底改变空间。在施工之前，空间内只有混凝土的立柱和天花板，因此建筑干预的基调也得以迅速确定下来：为既有的混凝土加上更多的混凝土。

Foro Normandie is a concrete unit located in the basement of an old downtown building in México City. In its old days, around 1940, it was a well-known restaurant & cabaret that carried the same name: Normandie (in french), disappearing in 1980 to leave place to the failure of downtown post earthquake. As many other spots in the area, Normandie was transformed in a table dance of very poor reputation until its prohibition. Today it takes part as one more of the downtown building recovery projects. The idea of the concert hall/forum is the mono materiality: the concrete leaving the space neutral for the artist to invade or even transform the space. Before beginning the construction of the project it had only columns and ceilings of concrete, which immediately dictated the architectural party to follow: add more concrete to the concrete.

▼吧台区域，bar area

▼吧台细部，detailed view

▼接待台，reception desk

▼长椅座位区，bench area

▼洗手池，basin area

该项目是一种对失败的赞颂，对意外的喝彩，以及对虚假和偏见的抵抗。设计的灵感从印度被带到墨西哥——这两个国家的关联性同样来源于意外——哥伦布在航海时的一场重大失误。

This project is and ode to failure, an applause to accident, a rejection to the false look and prejudice. An idea brought to México from a visit to India, countries that share the biggest failure in navigation, the one of Christopher Columbus.

▼一场混凝土材料的“实验”，an experiment through the concrete

▼混凝土在被浇筑的过程中展现出一部分的自由，to experiment through the concrete textures leaving partially free the concrete pouring

▼墙面细部，detailed view

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