异物:作为实体物质(表面)的建筑物

Strange Objects: Object as Solid(Surface)

建筑作为"物"的概念正在重新回到大众的视野。尽管现代性的观点认为,建筑形式的产生主要来自于平面和线性几何的美学构成,但如今越来越多的人认识到,建筑应当作为具有实体物质属性的"物"被认知,它不再是平面的、理性的,而是实体的、晦涩的。作为拥有三个维度的实体物体,这不仅仅代表一种不同的风格趋向,而且代表一种全新的范式转变——一种对建筑如何被设计和使用的重新思考,这种转变同时也改变了我们对建筑客体这一概念的定义。埃德蒙·伯克语境下的"奇怪""坚实"和"厚重"等词,已经超越了单纯的美学,超越了对美的理性认识。文章讨论的"原物"和"物体形状"等概念,会涉及一种物质"无限接近最优态"的过程,因此其具有建筑观念与建筑空间的双重意义。正是在这种双重条件下,"原物"的概念仍有待被明确区分和定义——其中实体物质的建筑形状和建筑形式处于同一个接近最优态的"搜索"过程中,而对应的建筑认知和建筑形式也在慢慢一同涌现。

The notion of "Architecture as Object" is re-emerging. While modernity considered the building form primarily as an aesthetic composition ofplanar and linear geometries, there is now a growing consensus to view the building as an object, an architectural body that is no longer planar and rational, but solid and opaque. The object as solid — having three dimensions — is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift;it is a re-conceiving of how the architectural object is produced and experienced, changing the very concept of objectivity. "Strange", "Solid" and "Massive" in the Burkean sense go beyond the merely aesthetic, rational understanding of beauty. Proto-bodies and Thing-Shapes touch on the idea of becoming, approximating perfection and, therefore, occupying a territory between idea and space: exactly where the Proto-body is not yet sharply differentiated or defined. It is where shapes and forms are still in the same "searching" state, with form and identity slowly emerging together.