B.L.U.E.建筑设计 | 木木艺术社区改造项目

项目场地位于北京隆福寺街钱粮胡同，依傍于景山、北海、中国美术馆、人艺剧场等城市地标。隆福寺始建于明代，是一片汇集了商业气息和艺术活动的繁华区域，直至1993年经历了一场火灾事故。在那之后，北京一些创新商业文化地块得到开发，如三里屯、798等等，这导致隆福寺地区的经济逐渐衰退，慢慢淡出了北京人的记忆。作为隆福寺地区振兴计划中的重要组成部分，木木艺术社区改造项目旨在继承隆福寺地区蕴含的历史传统，并发掘更多机遇与潜力。

The project site is located in Qianliang Hutong, Longfusi Street, an old downtown area within the Second Ring in Beijing, China. It is adjacent to famous urban landmarks in Beijing such as Jingshan Park, Beihai Park, National Art Museum of China, Beijing People’s Art Theatre. Originally built in the Ming Dynasty, Longfu Temple was a prosperous area where commercial atmosphere meets art activities until it experienced a fire accident in 1993. Thereafter, a number of land plots outside the Third Ring Road in Beijing were developed for innovative commerce and culture, such as Sanlitun, 798 Art Zone, etc., which led to the gradual economic recession of Longfu Temple area, a traditional downtown region inside the Second Ring Road. Longfu Temple area, as a result, gradually faded from Beijinger’s memories. As a significant part of the revitalization plan of the Longfu Temple area, M WOODS Art Community Renovation Project aims to inherit the historical and cultural traditions of the area while exploring more opportunities and potentials.

本次项目的选址建筑原为隆福寺职工食堂，结构简单，内部空间开敞，很适合进行美术馆项目改造。我们以‘将现代元素融入胡同历史城区’为出发点，尝试了兼具本土性和试验性的改造设计。

The site was originally the staff canteen of Longfusi region. The structure of the original building is simple and the internal space is quite open, which is suitable for the renovation of an art museum project. Starting with the idea of blending modern elements into the historical district of Hutong, we tried a renovation design combining both localization and experimentation.

空间结构 Spatial Structure

建筑整体空间分为四个部分：展览空间、提供休憩和临时活动功能的屋顶露台、一层的咖啡商店和地下一层的Live House。

Our design divides the overall space of the building into four parts: exhibition space, a rooftop terrace that provides rest space and temporary events, a 1st floor coffee shop, and a basement livehouse.

其中展览空间分为地上和地下两个区域，通过面积、高度和地面材质的区分将其分割为几个不同展厅，跨高从2.2m到7m，既有利于展出不同类型和规格的展品，又能为观众带来别样的观展体验。

The exhibition space is divided into two areas – above and under ground areas. We then divide them into several different galleries based on the differentiation of the area, height, and floor materials. The span height varies from 2.2 meters to 7 meters. These features are beneficial for exhibiting different types of artworks with different specifications. Meanwhile, they can bring people unique visiting experience.

关于动线 The Circulation

随着日益加快的社会节奏，层出不穷的电话讯息，城市能够提供给人群的专注空间越来越少，我们很难获得安静观看一件艺术品的日常体验。考虑到木木艺术社区是城市核心区域里的艺术中心，我们希望通过展览动线使观众切换心情，以达到更好的艺术体验。观众购票后将首先经过通道来到地下一层——这个区域是原建筑的人防区域，窄小低狭的走廊与天花，保留了原有粗糙混凝土的墙面，低迷的空间光线与温度，七个大小相近互相连通的房间带给人迷宫般的体验，由于墙厚和位置的原因，也收不到手机信号。走过之后将突然出现通往一楼展厅的楼梯，两个连续但截然不同的环境体验营造了一种错觉，空间定位的迷失使观众暂时忘却外部生活中的浮躁，重获平静心态观看展览。经过一层展厅来到二层、三层，空间逐步变大，天花高度也逐步变高，自然采光和外界景象也随之展现。同时，美术馆西侧的展厅和楼梯间墙壁上新开的小窗和露台，也在观众的艺术体验过程中穿插了老城区胡同生活氛围，这样富于变化而完整的体验使得木木艺术社区变得更具特点。

With the increasingly rapid pace of modern society and the endless stream of calls and messages, the modern cities today are providing less space for us to see and enjoy an artwork in peace in our daily life. Considering that M WOODS Art Community is an art center in the core region of the city, we hope to help switch the mood of the audience through the designed circulation to achieve a better art experience. After getting tickets, the visitors will first get to the basement level through a passage. The area was the civil defense region of the original building featuring narrow corridor and low ceiling. We decide to retain the original rough concrete walls and keep the light and temperature relatively low. Besides, the seven connected rooms with similar size bring the audience a maze-like experience. Due to the thickness of the walls and the floor slab, no phone signal can be received there. After passing by, the visitors will suddenly see the stairs leading to the exhibition space on the 1st floor. The two continuous but distinct environmental experiences create an illusion for people. In addition, the lost of spatial positioning makes people to temporarily forget the impetuousness of the outside world and regain the calmness of mind to enjoy exhibition. The visitors will pass through the gallery on the first floor to the second and third floors. Accordingly, the space and the ceiling height gradually increases; the natural lighting and outside scenes are revealed. Simultaneously, the newly opened small windows and terrace on the stairway walls and at the west-side gallery of the museum are interspersed with the adjoining Hutong living atmosphere of the Beijing’s old city in the process of the visitor’s experience. M WOODS Art Community becomes more characteristic because of the rich, diverse and complete experience the overall space provides.

关于外立面 The Façade

木木艺术社区作为一个公益性质的艺术机构，对这次的改造项目有着较为严格的成本控制，我们没有选用常见的建筑立面材料，而是发掘了一种新的材料——镀锌钢板，打造出褶皱肌理的形式。镀锌钢板拥有较好的耐腐蚀性和独特的表面肌理，平时主要作为围挡、通风管道等使用，成本也因此得到控制。我们最先尝试的机械加工方式很难达到预想中随机褶皱效果，进而决定人工加工。在人工实验的过程中，通过不同厚度的镀锌钢板测试，我们发现太薄的经过弯折很容易出现破损，过厚的又很难以加工，由此决定了0.3mm镀锌钢板。对于镀锌板面质感的选择，考虑到板材加工方式的不同，我们也对比了多家工厂。在建筑施工阶段，为了使整体立面具有节奏性变化，我们首先确定了五种不同程度的折痕来过渡效果，同时设计师配合工人亲自加工板材，最终呈现了一种机械加工无法轻易实现的立面效果。

As an independent, not-for-profit art institution, M WOODS has a strict cost control for the renovation project. Instead of choosing common façade materials, we discover a new material – galvanized steel sheet, and we use it to create a form of folded texture. Galvanized steel has fairly good corrosion resistance and unique surface texture, which is mainly used as enclosures and ventilation ducts. The cost is therefore effectively controlled. The machining technology we first tried was difficult for the material to achieve expected random folded effect, so that we then decided to use the method of handcrafting. During the manual experiment, through testing galvanized steel sheets with different thicknesses, we realized that the too-thin sheets are easily to break after bending, and the too-thick ones are too hard to make by hand. In the end, we choose 0.3mm galvanized steel sheet. In terms of the selection of the texture of galvanized steel, we compared many factories in consideration of the difference among processing methods of the sheet. In the construction phase, in order to make the fa?ade possess a rhythmic change, we first identified five different levels of crease to transition the effect. Meanwhile, the designers cooperated with the workers to process the plate, finally presenting a kind of façade effect that can hardly be achieved by mechanical processing.

▲外墙工艺

城市更新的起点 The Starting Point of Urban Renewal

目前项目周围陆续引入了餐厅、酒吧、咖啡店、共享办公等业态，吸引了更多从各地前来参观娱乐的人群，甚至是长期在此区域工作生活。木木艺术社区的改造不仅逐渐改变了本地人群原本的生活状态，使得北京二环内老城区更富年轻氛围，也再次唤醒了这片有着百年历史地区的文化活力。

At present, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, shared work space and other formats have been introduced around the project site, attracting more people from all over the world to visit, some even start to live and work at this area for a long time. The renewal of the M WOODS Art Community not only gradually transforms the existing state of life of the locals, making the old city inside the Second Ring in Beijing more youthful and vibrant, but also awaken the cultural vitality of the century-old region.