Ole Scheeren: Why great architecture should tell a story
אולה שירן: למה אדריכלות גדולה צריכה לספר סיפור
Ole Scheeren designs buildings that generate both functional and social spaces. Full bio
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of a famous doctrine.
של דוקטורינה מפורסמת.
modernity's ambitious manifesto
הפכה למניפסט המודרניות השאפתני
from the decorative,
and restrained purpose.
ותועלת מרוסנת.
of this phrase by Bernard Tschumi,
של הביטוי הזה על ידי ברנרד טשומי,
a completely different quality.
and buildings as a space of stories --
כחלל לסיפורים-
in these buildings.
the experiences our buildings create.
שהבניינים שלנו יוצרים.
in it and with it.
ideas for how the space of living
רעיונות לאיך חלל המגורים
could be different,
or a space of media could look like today.
יכולים להיראות היום.
they're being built.
in physical reality
as organizational structures.
כמבנים ארגוניים.
structural thinking, like a system:
in both a functional
that generate a series
of our buildings
those stories at the same time?
את הסיפורים באותו זמן?
simultaneous stories
the buildings we create.
as complex systems of relationships,
כמערכות מורכבות של יחסים,
and emotive or social way.
for China's national broadcaster,
with Rem Koolhaas at OMA.
the city planners showed us this image:
מתכנני העיר הראו לנו את התמונה הזו:
business district,
רק מספר מועט מהם היה קיים.
only a handful of them existed.
that we knew almost nothing about,
עליו לא ידענו כמעט דבר,
it would all be about verticality.
it's a profoundly hierarchical structure,
הוא מבנה היררכי בבסיסו,
החלק התחתון הכי פחות,
the bottom the worst,
the better, so it seems.
a completely different quality?
and could it be about a system
ולהיות נוגע למערכת
rather than isolation?
and bent it back into itself,
ועיקמנו אותה חזרה לתוך עצמה,
of television-making
את כל הפנים של יצירת טלויזיה
program production, broadcasting,
of interconnected activities
של חילופין ושיתוף פעולה.
of exchange and collaboration.
if you remember the human body
אם אתם זוכרים את הגוף האנושי
and circulatory systems, like at school.
כמו בבית הספר.
no longer as built substance,
לא עוד כעל חומר בנוי,
of primary technical clusters --
של אשכולות בעיקר טכניים --
broadcasting center and news.
with social clusters:
to meet and exchange.
of this building was a hybrid
of the building as a circulatory system,
כמערכת מעגלית,
and to allow both visitors and staff
functions in a great unity.
ever built in the world.
שאי פעם נבנו בעולם.
that exceeds the comprehension
of typical architecture.
של ארכיטקטורה טיפוסית.
and glued them onto a model,
והדבקנו אותם למודל,
with what that quantity actually meant.
מול המשמעות האמיתית של הכמות הזו.
that inhabits the building,
this, but also script this architecture,
אבל גם לתסרט את הארכיטקטורה,
hypothetical characters,
in a life in this building,
what they would experience.
the building, but of course,
אבל כמובן,
with the Museum of Modern Art
עם המוזיאון לאמנות מודרנית
channels simultaneously.
stands in Beijing today.
was the London Olympics 2012,
היה אולימפיאדת לונדון 2012,
from the outside for the Beijing Olympics.
לאולימפיאדת בייגי'נג.
of this 75-meter cantilever,
של השלוחה הזו, באורך 75 מטר,
that goes through the building.
שעוברת דרך הבניין.
that you can stand on
below you in slow motion.
part of everyday life in Beijing.
מהחיים היום יומיים בבייג'ינג.
is maybe sill this one.
is happening in town during the week,
portrayed no longer as physical matter,
שמתואר לא עוד כחומר פיזי,
that define the life of the city.
שמגדירות את החיים של העיר.
assumes the quality of a player,
מקבלת את האיכות של שחקן,
and performs stories.
of its primary meanings
אחת המשמעויות העיקריות שלו
story to this building.
that made it --
that I was guiding
in scripting this building,
in Singapore, large scale.
and more and more of the world,
כמו מרבית אסיה ויותר ויותר מהעולם,
more isolation than connectedness,
יותר בידוד מחיבוריות,
could we think about living,
and individuality of ourselves
של פרטיות ואינדיבידואליות לעצמנו
a communal environment
as having your own?
we had to design 1,040 apartments --
היינו צריכים לתכנן 1,040 דירות-
by the planning authorities,
שנתנה על ידי רשויות התכנון,
but residual in between --
although the tower isolates you,
because you're so close to the next one,
בגלל שאתם כל כך קרובים לבא,
what the qualities of this would be.
throw the vertical into the horizontal
לזרוק את האנכי לאופקי
of the helicopter,
is actually a hexagonal grid,
הוא למעשה גריד של משושה,
building blocks are stacked up
חללים מרכזיים לקהילה,
central spaces for the community,
of amenities and functions.
של אזורי נוחות ופונקציות.
are not hermetically sealed spaces.
הן לא חללים סגורים הרמטית.
they're interconnected.
and interconnect
of everything we designed
and giving the space to the inhabitants.
primarily communal spaces,
individual and private spaces.
עוד ועוד חללים אישיים ופרטיים.
that we left on the ground,
שהשארנו על הקרקע,
the green of all the terraces,
having built a building.
shows you that we are multiplying
של מתמטיקה מראה לכם שאנחנו מכפילים
to those who live there.
of one of these terraces.
כיכרות קרקע חדשות לפעילות חברתית.
new grounds planes for social activity.
to sustainability.
important thing to pay attention to,
החשוב ביותר לשים לב אליו,
protection from the sun.
would have sufficient daylight
יהיה מספיק אור יום
the glazing of the facades
consumption of the building.
that through the geometry
sufficient shading to the courtyards
throughout the entire year.
along the prevailing wind corridors,
לאורך מסדרונות הרוח הרווחים,
would create microclimates
the quality of those spaces
this variety of choices,
את מגוון האפשרויות הזה,
where you would want to be,
of the complex in which you live.
של הקומפלקס בו אתם גרים.
media company based in Berlin,
print media to the digital media.
למדיה דיגיטלית.
very pertinent questions:
still want to go to the office,
of a company be embodied
של חברה יכולה להיות מגולמת
but at the center of this object
the experience of a collective,
and of togetherness.
as the center of a space
of standard modular offices.
של משרדים רגילים ומודולריים.
from your quiet work desk,
משולחן העבודה השקט שלכם,
in the giant collective experience
a project commissioned
פרוייקט שהוזמן
Development Corporation
had created Albertopolis.
of creating Olympicopolis.
ליצור בו את "אולימפיקופוליס".
some of Britain's greatest institutions,
הגדולים ביותר בבריטניה,
and to create a new system of synergies.
וליצור מערכת חדשה של סינרגיות.
Albertopolis in the 19th century,
יצר את אלברטופוליס במאה ה-19,
all achievements of mankind,
a linear sequence of those institutions.
רצף לינארי של המוסדות האלו.
has moved on from there.
is as clearly delineated
boundaries start to blur
becomes far more important
הפכו ליותר חשובים
of a giant culture machine,
and animate the various domains,
and collaborate.
corridor, has daylight, has ventilation.
יש לו אור יום, יש לו אוורור.
exhibitional performance space.
function could, over time,
is, in a way, the most uncertain of all.
בדרך כלשהי, הכי לא בטוח מהכל.
adjacent to the Aquatics Centre,
its cantilevering volumes
animate the public inside.
לשמר את הזהות שלהן,
could maintain their own identity,
be subsumed in a singular volume.
to the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
של מרכז פומפידו בפריז.
and potential of the project,
והפוטנציאל של הפרוייקט,
of a heterogeneous structure,
an organizational structure
של נרטיבים להיות מתוסרטים --
narratives to be scripted --
that create and think culture;
שיכולים ליצור ולחשוב תרבות;
the visual arts, the dance;
admitted into all of this
of these narratives
של הנרטיבים האלה
that is very small,
in the ocean of Thailand.
a film festival,
and narratives of movies,
והנרטיבים של הסרטים,
of the people that watch them.
על הנרטיבים של האנשים שצופים בהם.
modular floating platform,
of local fishermen,
and fish farms.
את חוות הלובסטרים והדגים.
materials of their own,
from the British film archive,
experiences of the audience
the domain of physical matter,
עוברת מעל התחום של חומר פיזי,
we want to live our lives,
שאנחנו רוצים לחיות את חיינו,
and those of others.
ואלו של אחרים.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ole Scheeren - ArchitectOle Scheeren designs buildings that generate both functional and social spaces.
Why you should listen
Ole Scheeren is a German architect and principal of Buro Ole Scheeren with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin and Bangkok. He is chief designer and leading the company’s creative vision and strategic development.
Ole Scheeren’s current work includes the Guardian Art Center, a new exhibition space and headquarters for China’s oldest art auction house currently under construction near the Forbidden City in Beijing; 1500 West Georgia, a residential high-rise in downtown Vancouver; DUO, a large-scale mixed-use urban development under construction in Singapore; MahaNakhon, at 314 meters Bangkok’s tallest tower housing the Ritz-Carlton Residences; Angkasa Raya, a 268 meter tall landmark building in the center of Kuala Lumpur; and a large-scale mixed-use urban development in Shenzhen, China.
Prior to launching Buro Ole Scheeren in 2010, Ole was Director and Partner along with Rem Koolhaas at OMA and responsible for the office’s work across Asia. As partner-in-charge of one of the largest buildings in the world, he successfully led the design and realization of the CCTV and TVCC Towers in Beijing. Other projects include The Interlace, a residential complex in Singapore and the Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan. He also directed OMA’s work for Prada and completed the Prada Epicenters in New York and Los Angeles.
Through Studio Ole Scheeren, he is exploring his more personal interest in non-architectural projects and interventions, such as Archipelago Cinema, a floating auditorium in the Andaman Sea for the “Film on the Rocks” Festival in Yao Noi, Thailand, and subsequently installed at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice. He also developed Mirage City Cinema, a cinema-architecture space commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation as part of the Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme.
Ole Scheeren has contributed to various arts and culture projects and exhibitions throughout his career, including triennials in Beijing and Milan, China Design Now in London, the exhibition Cities on the Move at London’s Hayward Gallery and in the city of Bangkok, Media City Seoul and the Rotterdam Film Festival. For the Museum of Modern Art he designed two exhibitions in New York and Beijing featuring the CCTV project.
He regularly lectures at various international institutions and conferences, serves on juries for awards and competitions, and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the CTBUH 2013 Best Tall Building award for CCTV and the 2015 inaugural Urban Habitat Award for The Interlace.
Educated at the universities of Karlsruhe and Lausanne, Ole Scheeren graduated from the Architectural Association in London and was awarded the RIBA Silver Medal.
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