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“生命中真正重要的不是你遭遇了什么，而是你记住了哪些事，又是如何铭记的。”

“What really matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.”

—— 加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯，Gabriel Garcia Marquez

▼鸟瞰图，Aerial view © CreatAR Images

2023年6月，Wutopia Lab设计的奉贤齐贤耶稣堂历时8年而最终落成。我花了一点时间回忆，因为我已经有些改变，而当时设计的缘由已经有些模糊。但在那个当口，我正着迷于用半透明来当代化表达我理解的江南的节制的美以及背后试图挣扎的力量。

In June 2023, the Fengxian Qixian Jesus Church designed by Wutopia Lab was finally completed after eight years. It took me a little while to recall because I had changed a bit, and the reasons for the design at that time had become a little fuzzy. But I remember at the time, I was fascinated by the use of translucency as a contemporary expression of what I understood to be the restrained beauty of Jiangnan and the struggling forces behind it.

▼俯视，Top view © CreatAR Images

有点节制的不一样
Uniqueness with a bit of moderation

任务书要求主配楼分开。我决定主楼以16.7米高的大礼堂为核心，在它的西侧和北侧布置办公和辅助功能，最后把小礼堂安置在办公区最高层，主楼其实就是一个垂直社区。而配楼则是食堂。我最重要的策略把整个场地看成一个被称为场所的建筑。我在建筑控制线一圈竖立起作为视觉边界的半透明围合“面纱”，主配楼是这个“面纱”所限定的场域内的建筑。它们连同视觉边界“面纱”形成一个完整的建筑表达，一个完整的场所。

The brief called for the main and ancillary buildings to be separated.I decided to use the 16.7m high main hall as the core of the main building, inserting offices and other facilities on its west and north sides while placing the small auditorium on the highest level of the office area to create a vertical community. And the ancillary building is the canteen. Treating the entire site as a building called a place is my most significant strategy. I have erected a translucent enclosing “veil” as a visual boundary around the architectural control line, while the main and ancillary buildings are buildings within this field defined by this “veil”. Together, with the visual boundary of the “veil”, they form a complete architectural expression, a complete place.

▼沿河视角，Riversid view © CreatAR Images

▼帷幕，The Curtain © CreatAR Images

然后我想保持身在建筑其内的对称感，但在总图上，先在让主楼中心线平行但不在基地中心线上，其次让大礼堂中心线平行不在主楼中心线上。这样布局在避免死板的对称基础上有了一些活泼的生动，但仍然在需要对称感的区域保持了对称的神圣。这样调整还有一个好处就是，大礼堂首层可以直接朝南，在天气好的时候，大礼堂可以完全南向打开，把室外场地作为礼堂用地的延伸。这也是我试图礼堂室外化的结果。

Then I wanted to maintain the sense of symmetry within the building. However in the site plan, firstly, I adjusted the center lines of the main building so that they are parallel but not on the center line of the base; and secondly, I made the center lines of the auditorium parallel to each other but not according to the center line of the main building. This new layout not only avoids the rigidity of conventional symmetrism but also opens up possibilities for some lively vitality while maintaining the sanctity of symmetry in areas in need. Another advantage of this adjustment is that the first floor of the auditorium can face directly south. When the weather is nice, the main hall can be opened up completely southward so that the outdoor field can be used as an extension of the auditorium site. This is also a result of my attempt to bring the outside into the auditorium.

▼西北视角，North-west view © CreatAR Images

▼东北视角，North-east view © CreatAR Images

▼场地内，In the site © CreatAR Images

▼场地内，In the site © CreatAR Images

江南晦明不定的光
The obscure light of Jiangnan

半透明的“面纱”是我试图用建筑表达江南晦明不定的光的一个手段。它可以在视觉界面上表达可以随着日光变化的影子，可以是投影在上面的自然或者人造物，也可以是透射在上面的自然或者人造物。它也可以在视觉界面所围合场域里形成被过滤过的日光，不那么炙热，但有些举棋不定，一如江南的天气，你就在这个天气里。更重要的是它会将界面内的场域标志成一个完整的场所，进来就是一个新领地。

The translucent “veil” is one of the means by which I try to express the obscure light of Jiangnan through architecture. It can express shadows on the visual interface which change with daylight and the shadows can either be projections or transmissions of natural or man-made elements. It can also create filtered sunlight in this field enclosed by the visual interface, not so hot, but somewhat uncertain just like the weather in Jiangnan, in which you are. More importantly, it signifies the field within the interface as a complete place, going inside is entering a new territory.

▼帷幕，The Curtain © CreatAR Images

▼建筑与帷幕，The building and the curtain © CreatAR Images

▼帷幕，The Curtain © CreatAR Images

▼场地内，In the site © CreatAR Images

我在大礼堂里用密集的格栅形成一个配合南北向天窗的视觉内屏障，如果不是造价，我会把格栅扭一下，形成不确定的反光。如今也可以，铝格栅垂直连续的反光和天光一起组成一个如同雨幕的光幕，人群就在这不强烈但包裹的光幕之内，心有所属。

I used a dense grille in the auditorium to form an internal visual barrier in conjunction with the north-south skylights. If it were not for consideration of the cost, I would have twisted the grille a bit to create an indeterminate reflection. The current design works too as the vertical continuous reflections of the aluminum grille and the skylight together form a curtain of light that feels like a rain screen; the crowd is within this not so intense but encompassing curtain of light where their heart belongs.