MAD no doubt is one of the most recognized architectural practices in China and worldwide. Every year, MAD receives countless job and internship applications. To be able to work at MAD will definitely enrich your career as even though the people working here might have been lucky, but are undeniably outstanding. What could possibly be on the minds of the MAD interns?

MAD无疑是中国最受瞩目的建筑师事务所之一，同时在世界范围内也受到极高的关注。MAD每年都收到来自全世界不计其数的工作申请和实习申请。能够进入MAD学习和工作一段时间，职业生涯无疑会变得精彩丰富，在这里的人们，也许是幸运的，但肯定是优秀的。在MAD工作的实习生们，他们脑子里天马星空的想法是什么样的?

Bozar Ben Zeev 是来自荷兰的学生，目前就读于英国AA建筑学院，拥有该学院的ARB/RIBA Part 1学位；本科就读于荷兰代夫特科技大学，获得了建筑学士学位（优等毕业生）。

Bozar Ben Zeev is a Dutch student, currently studying in the Diploma School of the Architectural Association (AA). He holds an ARB/RIBA Part 1 Diploma from the Architectural Association, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree Cum Laude from the Delft Technical University.

Name: Bozar Ben Zeev
Educational Institution: Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
Year: 4th Year
Nationality: Dutch (Netherlands)
Email: bozar@outlook.com
Website: bozar.bz

Who is your favorite architect? Why?
Filippo Brunelleschi, for designing the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral of Florence, Italy), which is not only a beautiful piece of architecture (and my favorite one), it is also a brilliant piece of engineering.

What is the major characteristic of your current school’s education?
The people at the Architectural Association (AA) have a very different approach to architecture compared to most other schools (I studied at theTechnical University of Delft in the Netherlands before). Their understanding of architecture, is much wider and more abstract, designing/constructing a building is just a very small part of architecture.

What have you gained during the MAD internship?
MAD has thought me the fine line between yet another crazy/organic design and a project that is just clever enough to be viable and buildable.

What are your thoughts and feelings upon Chinese Architecture and the environment? Any suggestion?
China’s political structure gives it the possibility to leap forwards at unprecedented pace, not just technologically but also in terms of urbanization.The rapid expansion of Chinese cities often leads to megalomaniac urban areas, that lack any notion of human scale. This transition not only resultsin modern cities that have lost their connection with nature, it also leads to an overall loss of the link with nature in contemporary society. It should be noted that this is not just a Chinese, but a global issue. But it can be extra devastating for a culture that used to have such strong connections withnature. Look to the west where this transition already took place, although not in such a quick pace, and learn from the mistakes made in urban planning and the role nature can play within a city.

What is your dream?
Creating architecture that inspires people and influences the architectural discourse and society in general.

What would you do if you were not an architect?
Either a politician or a physicist, although completely different fields from each other and from architecture, they both deeply interested me. One forgiving us a deeper understanding of the world and everything that exists around us, the other for its ability to influence society and change it for the better.

What is your dream project?
A project that inspires people and influences the architectural discourse and society in general.

What is your favorite project in your portfolio? Why?
– EUnique, for its design and the attempt to create an architectural object that embodies (be it very abstract) the common ground of European culture.
– The Office for Protest Architecture for its social agenda, the idea that architecture can be used as an activist tool in order to instigate change within
society.

姓名：Bozar Ben Zeev
学校：英国AA建筑学院
年级：四年级
国籍：荷兰
邮箱：bozar@outlook.com
网址：bozar.bz

你最喜欢的建筑师是谁？为什么？
菲利波•布鲁内列斯基（Filippo Brunelleschi），他设计的佛罗伦萨花之圣母大教堂的穹窿顶不仅是伟大的建筑艺术作品（我最喜欢的建筑作品），也是一项接触的工程巨作。

英国AA建筑学院的主要特点是什么？
和其他大多数学校比起来（我本科曾就读于荷兰代夫特科技大学），AA建筑学院的学生对建筑有着不同的领悟。他们对建筑的理解更为广泛和抽象。对他们来说，建筑设计和建造只是建筑学很小的一个分支。

在MAD实习的收获是什么？
MAD教会我如何拿捏天马行空的有机设计与可行性之间的平衡。

你怎么看待中国的建筑和行业环境？能提点建议吗？
中国的政治体制让建筑行业以空前的速度向前发展，这种发展不仅仅体现在建筑技术上，也体现在城市化进程上。中国城市的快速发展导致大规模城区的出现，而缺乏对人文的关注。如此一来，现代化的城市失去了与自然之间的联系，进而导致整个社会与自然的失联。但是，这种现象并不仅仅存在于中国，而是一个世界性的议题。但对于一个曾经与自然联系如此紧密的文明国度来说，这种过渡带来的灾难性将更为深刻。反观已经成功过渡的西方国家，尽管他们的过渡步伐相对缓慢，但已经从中吸取教训，逐步恢复自然在城市中的重要角色。

你的梦想是什么？
创造出给人以启迪、影响建筑学乃至整个社会的作品。

如果不做建筑师的话，你会选择什么职业？
政治家或者物理学家。虽然两者毫无关系，而且与建筑也没有任何联系，但是我对这两种职业很感兴趣。前者能让我对世界和身边的事物有更深刻的理解，而后者则可以影响和改变世界。

你的理想作品是什么？
给人以启迪、影响建筑学乃至整个社会的作品。

你最满意的作品是什么？为什么？
-EUnique，我喜欢它的设计及其以抽象的方式展现欧洲共同文化的设计理念。
-维权建筑楼；我喜欢这个项目的社会性，建筑也可以成为维权工具，促进社会的积极变化。

EUnique

受欧元危机及随之而来的公共开支削减的影响，欧洲寻求经济、法律和政治统一时受到了来自民众的强烈反对。欧洲精英阶层和普通阶层差距空前巨大的时代为欧洲文化机构提供了一个缓和这种差距的绝好机会。这些文化机构应成为连接欧洲社会与民众的桥梁，展示欧洲的丰富文化遗产以便各个阶层更好地理解欧洲国家之间的共性，以此创造一个更加统一、团结的欧洲社会。

EUnique项目是为位于鹿特丹的欧洲文化机构设计的。该项目结合了两大原则：一是吸引文化阶层及对“文化”尤其是“欧洲文化”持怀疑态度的非文化阶层，这两者几乎是相互矛盾的。吸引这两个不同阶层最有效的方式是创造直观的社会功能性空间（如小公共花园）以吸引广大普通民众，同时创造传统的“文化”功能空间（如图书馆、展厅和音乐厅）。

第二个原则是：文化中心的设计不仅促进文化发展，还应展示本身的文化背景。EUnique通过特殊的建筑设计充分展现了欧洲文化机构的职能。最重要和最引人注目的是建筑的外形。它象征了当代欧洲社会的三个历史时期：古希腊、罗马帝国和基督教会。

In these perilous times in which Europe seeks to achieve economic, legal and political unity within its continent, the resistance against the EU is ever increasing amongst its citizens as a result of the Euro Crisis and the subsequent spending cuts. In a society where the gap between the pro-European elite and the rest of the population has never been greater, there is a tremendous opportunity for European cultural institutions to
counteract this alienation. These cultural institutions should become the bridge between Europe and its people, and should exhibit the diverse cultural heritage that forms Europe, in order to bring more understanding of our common ground to every layer of society, and thus creating a more united Europe.

This design for a European Institute of Culture in Rotterdam, entitled EUnique, is a symbiosis between two principles. The first is, the almost paradoxical pursuit, to not only attract the cultural engaged social layer but also the cultural shallow group, who has its doubts as to “culture” andespecially a “European culture”. The most effective and engaging way to attract this target group is to create direct social functions (such as allotment gardens) with a wider attraction to the public, next to the traditional “cultural” functions (such as a library, an exhibition space and a concert hall).

The second idea is that a design for a cultural centre should not only facilitate culture, but should also express its own cultural context. The functionof a European Institute for Culture expresses itself within the architectural solutions present in this design. The most important and notable one is the shape of the building, it embodies how contemporary European society is founded on three eras of European history: Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and Christianity.

THE CLOUD 云

云计算在当今社会中越来越重要。脸书和推特等工具的出现逐渐将社交转移到网络平台，人们对线上隐私的概念也越来越强烈。云计算与脸书、推特、邮件以及几乎所有网络服务工具一样，将任意形式的个人资料储存在外部服务器上。这种个人资料管理方式的转移将会对个人隐私产生重大影响。外部世界可以获得我们的医疗记录、银行记录、文件、图片或任何其他数字化的私密资料。

“云”是为荷兰代尔夫特科学中心设计的建筑楼。该设计旨在提醒人们警惕云计算的危险，同时展现云计算的优点。用高科技打造的“云”结构的半透明外观可以展示每一位访客在网络上公开的个人信息。这样每个人都可以在建筑的内部和外部看到投映出的个人资料，形象地表达了人们从网络上轻松获取他人信息的便捷性。

Cloud Computing is an increasingly important phenomenon in our society. Now that the social contacts often shift to the Internet with services likeFacebook and Twitter, the concept of online privacy is becoming increasingly more present. Cloud computing encompasses any form of personal data storing on external servers, as is the case with Facebook and Twitter, as well as with e-mail and almost any online service. This shift of controlover our own data will have major implications for the privacy of the individual. Our medical files, bank transcripts, documents, pictures or any other secrets in digital form are becoming accessible to the outside world.

The Cloud is designed for the Science Centre in Delft and aims to stimulate awareness of the dangers and the merits of cloud computing. This design, which consists of a high-tech architectonic ‘’cloud’’, displays the online available personal information of each visitor on its translucent façade. In thisway the projection of the personal data is to be seen for everybody from the inside as well as the outside, literally embodying the ease in which our online personal information can be seen by everyone.

OFFICE FOR PROTEST ARCHITECTURE 维权建筑楼

过去十年间，世界范围内的大规模维权活动兴起。历史上很少出现如此大规模的人群表达对时下政治的不满，当然也很少出现这种大规模的维权活动仅带来如此小的改变。

维权建筑楼建筑不应是粉饰资本主义社会或极权主义的工具，而应是促进社会良性发展的政治工具、维权工具。

维权大楼内有很多充气设备来帮助全世界成千上万民众的维权活动，积极推动民主社会的进程。从充气炸弹到抵抗警察暴力的连体衣，从绕开媒体追踪的飞艇到汽车充气路障，应有尽有。

The last decade has been marked by massive protests throughout the world. Rarely in history have so many people voiced their discontent with thecurrent political course of action. Yet rarely has mass protest resulted in so little change.

The Office for Protest Architecture was founded on the belief that architecture can be used as something more than just being another gift wrappingfor corporate or totalitarian impositions. Architecture can be used as a political tool, or even an activist tool in order to instigate change within society.

The Office for Protest Architecture is developing a number of inflatable devices to aid the millions of people around the world who protest for a moredemocratic society. The devices range from inflatable bombs that bring awareness to tourists, to bodysuits that protect against excessive police violence, and from zeppelins that bypass media censorship, to cars that turn into inflatable barricades.

RECYLCING THE CITY 城市中的循环利用

铜、铝、钢甚至是石油等资源正日渐稀少，价格日益飞涨。面对资源减少的困境，将城市本身当做一座现代化矿井是很好的解决办法，而手机、电脑、汽车、建筑及其他产品则是原材料。

该亭阁状建筑是未来城市的缩影。移动亭阁完全采用城市废弃物构成，确切说来，由塑料容器和汽车这两种消费社会的最大污染物构成。塑料容器被循环利用为墙壁和地板，来自废弃车辆的钢和铝则用来制作主要结构。

该建筑不仅通过循环利用废弃材料来展现城市矿井的理念，其形状也是一个巨型的循环标志—中空庭院周身由三个斜坡结构围绕而成。斜坡在屋顶位置相互连接在一起，经由上部和下部均可相互连通。特别的设计让其建筑过程十分简单，同时可以拆成小构件以便运输。

Commodities like copper, aluminium, steel and even oil are getting scarcer every day and prices are skyrocketing. The answer to the resource deprivation is urban mining, the city as a modern mine. Cell phones, computers, cars, buildings and other products are becoming the source for raw materials.

The Pavilion functions as an example of the future city, it is a travelling pavilion which is composed entirely out of urban waste. To be precise, it isconstructed out of the two biggest pollutants of the consumer society: plastic containers and cars. Plastic containers are recycled and reused as walland floor elements, steel and aluminium obtained from cars are used for the main construction.

This building doesn’t only represent urban mining by reusing materials, even the shape resembles a giant recycling symbol, creating a central courtaround which three ramps revolve. These slopes meet each other at the roof of the building, making it possible to walk from one to the other on boththe lowest and the highest level. This unusual design has the benefit of being simple to build and break down into small parts, making it easy to transport.

ELEVATED EARTH 伸出地面

该项目是位于Delftse Hout的观鸟台。其设计基于形式化和实体化两种理念进行。Delftse Hout地区是荷兰Randstad大都市最后保留的自然区域之一，濒临灭绝的翠鸟栖息于此。观鸟台外形的灵感来自于翠鸟捕获猎物时的螺旋式潜水路线，象征翠鸟伸出地面的情景。周身布满繁茂苔藓的观鸟台仿佛成为大自然的一部分。为了在内部传达大自然的气息，观鸟台的墙壁内侧布满外部植物的根系。

Elevated Earth is the design for a bird observatory in the Delftse Hout. The design is based on two concepts: one relates to the shape and the other relates to the materialization. The Delftse Hout is one of the last remaining places within the Randstad metropolis where the Kingfisher, anendangered species still resides. The shape of the building is inspired by the special corkscrewing motion that a kingfisher makes when diving forits prey. This diving motion is captured within this shape, as to give the impression that a kingfisher majestically rises from the earth. By completelyovergrowing this shape with moss, this building seems to be part of nature itself. Even from the inside one should get the notion of walking within an extrusion of nature, which is why the walls on the inside consists entirely out of the roots of the outer vegetation.

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Name: Bozar Ben Zeev
Educational Institution: Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
Year: 4th Year
Nationality: Dutch (Netherlands)
Email: bozar@outlook.com
Website: bozar.bz

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