半透明性的魅惑——透明性研究之二

The Lure of Translucency--Study on Material Transparency (Second of Three)

透明性一直是建筑中一个重要的追求目标,19世纪以来尤其占据突出的位置,然而在对于透明性的表现中,建筑也失却了许多品质上的微妙、丰富与具体。与透明性不同,半透明材料呈现了某种暧昧与模糊,是一种有质感的透明性。着重考察半透明性材料的空间特征与文化内涵,并从心理与审美机制探讨了它对于建筑与人交流方式的影响。如果说对于透明性的追求体现了现代主义的理想和美学的追求,那么对于它的反动则恰恰暗合了"现代之后"的社会和文化的丰富、复杂与暧昧。

Modernity has been haunted by a myth of transparency. Yet in the extreme exploration of the expressive potentiality of transparency, architecture also suffers in missing many other qualities like subtlety, abundance and specificity. Quite different from this quality, translucency displays a character of ambiguity and uncertainty, or a textured transparency. This paper pays its attention to this quality of material in its space features as well as cultural connotation. It also studies how it affects the way architecture communicates with people from the perspectives of psychological and aesthetic mechanism. If the chase for transparency reflects the ideal and aesthetic goal of the modernist, the questioning of this quality and excavation of translucency＇ s expressivity coincide with and echo the variety, complexity and ambiguity of the ＂post-modern＂ society and culture.