Theatrical Apartment by APALONDON

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APALONDON在歌剧导演Dalia Ibelhauptaite和电影戏剧导演Dexter Fletcher配合下，为他们位于伦敦克勒肯维尔地区圣约翰大街上的公寓设计了一个精彩而充满张力的室内空间。

APA London have collaborated with Dalia Ibelhauptaite (a director of opera and theatre) and Dexter Fletcher (a director of film and theatre) on the design for a new and theatrical apartment space in Clerkenwell, London located on St John Street.

▽ 从客厅到卧室，View to the Bedroom

建筑建于上世纪三十年代，前身为一座鞋厂。客户并没有被房屋的旧有结构所蒙蔽，发现了在其遮掩下的，将为室内带来良好采光的大面积开窗。客户希望设计师在充分考虑建筑尺度，材质和细部的基础上，将这个曾经的厂房改造为符合他们需求并能反映他们人生经历的居住空间。

The building, built in the 1930s, had a former life as a shoe factory. The clients were drawn to it for its expansive windows, though the old arrangement of rooms meant that these were always partially hidden from view. The brief was to transform the warehouse space, taking close consideration of the scale, grain and detailing of the existing architecture, and to create something very personal to the clients, representing something of their histories.

▽ 工作区及客厅，Working Area and the Living Room

▽工作区及餐厅， Working Area and the Dinning Room

Dexter对建筑动态美的追求为设计带来了新的视角。他被这旧厂房未经打磨的真实感所倾倒，金属框架窗户的开启机制优雅而耐人寻味，带着原始力量的美仿佛在静态的空间中默默流淌。这种流动性贯穿了整个设计。

The old factory has a roughness, an authenticity, which appealed to Dexter, whose film background supports a love of architecture seen through a lens, in movement. The existing window frames which work together on metal rods ‘in unison’ for ventilation are a complex but beautiful mechanical pivoting system which creates a raw and industrial aesthetic that retains a certain dynamic of movement, even when static. These themes permeated the design.

▽厨房视角，View from Kitchen

核心的设计手法呼应了Dalia多年的舞台设计背景。浴室，洗衣房和电影书籍存储空间被集中收纳至一个黑盒子中，置于公寓的中心位置，如同剧院中的舞台一样，而阅读，起居，餐饮，休憩等其他功能则绕其布置。空间过渡流畅而毫无滞涩感，进一步将流动感付诸现实。

A Directorial, choreographic & artistic fluidity prevailed. Dalia’s operatic set design skills became the design core around which the space was manipulated. A black box like a huge fly tower sits centrally in the space. This houses a bathroom, film and book archive and laundry facilities. The black box sets about a pattern of architectural movement so that the spaces wrap around it. Each side of the cube is characterised by a different function : reading & sleeping / working, preparing food & dining / socialising & relaxing. The whole space is however a continuous wrap.

▽ 黑盒子，The Black Box

粗钢墙面的黑盒子上嵌有推拉门，外层另附一层可移动的熏黑纱网，随开启露出内层的金属书架，凹槽和装饰壁龛。外表看似复杂，使用起来却简洁明了。经过深思熟虑的紧凑的内部空间设计通过轻巧的移动逐步展示出来。而参考客户对戏剧艺术的热爱，设计师用少量的金属蓝色、暗橄榄绿和细腻的纹理为素静的空间增添了一份暖意。

The cube surfaces open and close, incorporating raw steel walls, blackened mesh screens, metal shelves, recesses, decorative niches and sliding doors. It is Baroque in complexity but simple in function. Each element serves a purpose in movement to reveal a use of space that is compact and deliberate or occasionally obtuse and irreverent. Springing from the clients love for theatre, dance, music and artistic clarity, a monochrome palette became highlighted by gentle warm tones of light, delicate introductions of industrial steel blues, rich dark olive green and unexpected textures.

▽ 使用中的黑盒子，The Black Box in Use

设计师对软硬材质的使用出人意料，并用不同的光源营造出或沉静或张扬的空间氛围。建筑材料，家具和可移动墙面都是为客户量身订造的，不仅折射出客户的人生经历，也唤起了他们对曾经旅途的回忆。实心橡木书架，黑灰拉门，黑色大理石碎片，厚毯子和床品，这些不同记忆碎片的实体化组合在一起，让白天有着丰富细腻纹理的公寓，到了晚上散发出一种如梦似幻的神秘感。这间以钢制黑盒子组织起来的居住空间，代表着居住者对生活的激情和对自然的热爱。

Hard materials appear as soft as butter, soft fabrics are placed as monolithic stone like structures. Lighting is varied, from muted & reflected tones to occasional directed, theatrical atmospheres. The choice of materials, furniture and moveable wall screens is deeply personal, inspired by family history as well as evoking memories of journeys in Japan, Belgium, and Argentina, each captured by fragments (solid oak shelves, black ash shoji, thick black marble splinters, mountain climate blankets & throws) that combine to create a dark mystical dream at night or a textural landscape in daylight. Urban in complexity yet strangely archaic /prehistoric in its base simplicity, the apartment dominated by a black steel cube reflects the inhabitants passions and their love for material quality of an elemental nature.

▽ 客厅，Living Room

▽ 餐厅与厨房 ，Dinning Area and Kitchen

▽ 卧室，Bedroom

业主采访 Words from and about the clients, Dalia Ibelhauptaite & Dexter Fletcher:

在二战之前，Dalia的爷爷曾经在立陶宛的一个小镇上经营一间生产火柴和板材的工厂。正是因为这个工厂，在俄罗斯吞并立陶宛并建立苏维埃共和国后，他们一家被发配到位于西伯利亚的古拉格劳改营生活了八年。尽管Dalia并没有经历过这一段生活，但年幼的她经常能听到爷爷说：“如果一个人的衣柜用的是厚厚的橡木板，说明他生活的很不错。”爷爷的话深深地印在她心里，她知道当她力所能及的时候，一定拥会有用真正橡木制成的大柜子，让她的爷爷和家人知道，她的生活很幸福。为了她，我们找到了这个在立陶宛小镇上的一个小小的工坊，请他们用最好的橡树制成了一个步入式衣橱，Dexter的书桌和浴室的柜子。公寓里所有的木头都是实木。讽刺的是，重达2.2吨的所有的木材都来自俄罗斯，其中最长的一片甚至是来自西伯利亚的，用做了Dexter的书桌。

WOOD: Before WWII, Dalia’s grandfather had a wood factory which made matches and wood planks in a small Lithuanian town. When the Russians occupied Lithuania and it was incorporated into USSR, that factory was the main reason to send Dalia’s grandfather and his 9 children to Gulag in Siberia for 8 years of hard labour camps. Although she was born long after that, she does remember from childhood the words of her grandfather: “if wardrobe has thick oak shelves – the person is doing well. They used to have REAL oak then…” For many years Dalia knew that one day, when she can, she definitely will have thick real oak shelves in her house… in the memory of her family and for granddad to think – “the girl has done well”. This was the main reason why we found this tiny workshop in a small town in Lithuania which to this day is still working with the real oak and asked them to find the best oak for our walk-in wardrobe, Dexter’s desk and bathroom units. All wood in our apartment is real oak. Ironically, it had to be brought from Russia and the longest piece (4m20cm) for Dexter’s desk – from Siberia. A whole 2.2 tonnes of it.

▽ 工作区，Working Area

反映两位居住者的人生，是这次公寓改造的一个重点－他们是什么样的人，曾经有过怎样的生活，现在的生活状态如何，以后想过哪种日子。建筑最终像剧本一样，讲述着属于居住者的故事。

古老的金属防火门和公寓两侧的大窗户，是这栋工业遗址为数不多的得到保留的部分。即便业主是被大量窗户所吸引而买下这间公寓的，也并不意味着所有的窗户都应该保留。

In the renovation of the apartment it was important to be telling the story of a person’s life – who they are, where they have been, where they are now, where they hope to be. In the end one could say – architecture is like scripting.

The only details which were left from the industrial past of the building are the metal fire doors from 1938 (the building used to be a shoe factory – Scholl manufacturing) and big industrial windows on both sides of the apartment, some of them still opening in the old way with the metal handle. The large amount of windows was the main reason why the apartment was purchased, but before the renovation, one could not see all windows at once.

▽ 大窗户，Windows

而金属门是公寓中央象征着舞台的黑色铁盒的灵感来源，稳定又充满变化。这是一个定制的公寓，讲述着两位主人的人生。作为演员，电影导演和戏剧歌剧导演，两位主人在年幼是就踏上了通往艺术世界的征途。这个容纳了各种情感，故事和梦想的黑盒子，是他们人生中必不可少的一部分。他们熟知这里面的每个角落，它的存在让他们安心。

Those metal doors were the inspiration for the black metal cube as the ‘black box of the stage’ in the middle of the apartment, which on the one hand is a built world, but had to combine the ephemerality of the performance – to have the possibility for constant change and motion.

It had to be a very personal apartment – telling the story of the two people who live there – film actor and now director, and theatre and opera director. Both of them started their journeys into the art world while they were children and for them the black theatre box, the magic cube, was always part of life – the space which contained it all – emotions, stories, dreams. At the same time it gave emotional peace and reassurance because the stage was something they knew really well from inside out.

▽ 走廊，Hallway

这个金属盒也表达了我们的核心概念，导演总是从零开始，用他的想象力创造出画面，故事，情节，将情感赋予空白的物质世界。这也是为什么这个公寓内的金属盒，虽然看起来非常封闭，却有着无数中变化的可能性。就如同生命体一样，里面数不尽的电影，书籍，Dexter电影的剧照，Dalia的戏剧演出和各种纪念品。Dexter四十年的演艺生涯中，和许多影视界的传奇有过合作，盒子最外层的架子上摆满了无数藏品，如同电影史的巨大宝库。而盒子内部的浴室让使用者与外界完全隔离，享受着绝对的自由和安宁。

The metal box represents the core of our creative work – the director always takes the empty black box and with his imagination creates images, stories, sets and architectural pieces within it – an entire material world which in turn is filled with emotional journeys of the characters.

That is why the metal box inside the apartment looks quite closed from the outside, but has the ability to constantly change and evolve, never be the same – it is like a living piece and when you start opening it, you find that it holds a massive amount of films, books, the whole big archive of materials and photos from Dexter’s films, Dalia’s theatre shows, mementoes. Dexter’s career as an actor spans more than 40 years, working with most of the stage and screen legends in the world so the metal shelves forming the outside layer of the cube contain a treasure trove of cinema history. Inside the cube is the most important place in the house – the bathroom. For us it is the place where one can seek absolute peace of mind and cannot be reached by the outside world.

▽ 金属盒子，The Metal Box

日本设计文化十分强调灵魂的安定和自由，因此Dexter和Dalia对日本建筑、艺术、生活方式甚至穿着的喜爱并不足为奇。浴室内部墙面的贴片是从日本进口的。自下而上的照明设计强调了瓷砖的肌理，进一步唤起对日本的回忆。

So many things in Japanese culture and design bring peace of mind and calmness to your soul and it is not accident that Dexter and Dalia love Japanese architecture, art, lifestyle and clothes. The main wall in the bathroom is made from tiles which were brought from Japan. Uplighting emphasises texture of the tile which evokes memories of Japanese stone wall features with running down waterfalls.

▽ 浴室，Bathroom

此外公寓里还有许多日本元素，包括了定制的与窗户呼应的卧室拉门。到了晚上，灯光从卧室内部以及建筑中庭透射出来，公寓变得十分温馨。纸质墙面和金属盒子在材质上产生了戏剧性的对比。在夜间，开了灯的金属盒子如点着的灯笼一般，并像舞台一样可以变换灯光的颜色。

There are more elements of Japan in the apartment, including the shoji screens dividing the bedroom area, which were custom designed to echo identically the pattern of the windows. At night, with the light behind the shoji doors, and the light coming in from the atrium of the building, the apartment becomes a cosy place – like the inside of a Japanese lantern. The contrast between the paper wall and the metal of the cube is very theatrical. At night the metal cube lights up like a Japanese lantern and has the ability to change lights like a stage show.

▽ 客厅，Living Room

▽ 卧室光线，Light form the Bedroom

公寓所有材料和颜色是依据现有金属防火门所选择的，包括了厨房定制石墨色橱柜。

The materials and colours throughout were dictated by the existing metal fire doors and the Poliform kitchen in graphite colour was custom built to accommodate those doors.

▽ 金属门，Metal Doors

▽ 细部设计，details

▽ 平面图， Plan

Project Team:
Architects: APA
Project Architect: Guillermo Lavernia
Contractor: Bentis Brothers
Photographer: Ed Reeve
Images copyright Ed Reeve

Drawings: APALONDON
English Text: APALONDON
Chinese Text: gooood

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