Agg Hab，或称Aggregate Habitat，是一个原型的生态住宅，通过将纸糊的条状物放入地面的雕刻孔中形成。这座房子长20英尺，宽8英尺，高4.5英尺，使用了近200升的胶水和270磅的纸，被非正式地称为世界上最大的、可自我支撑的纸糊结构之一。建造过程从挖掘两个镜像的凸凹洞开始，每个洞深四英尺半。然后，这些洞被浇上多层有机的、由各种回收纸和无毒胶水组成的纸塑混合物。
The Agg Hab, or Aggregate Habitat, is a prototypal eco-dwelling formed by casting papier-mâché strips into sculpted holes in the ground. Measuring over twenty feet long, eight feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet tall, and constructed using nearly 200 liters of glue and 270 pounds of paper, the house stands unofficially as one the world’s largest, self-supporting, papier-mâché structures. The process of construction started with the digging of two mirrored, convexo-concave holes, each four-and-a-half feet deep. These holes were then cast with multiple layers of an organic, papier-mâché mixture consisting of various recycled papers and non-toxic glues.
接下来，这些模型被从各自的洞中取出，并翻转过来，形成重复的、球形的纸壳，厚度为四毫米，跨度超过20英尺。最后，纸壳被移到相邻的模板上，让一个孔的倒置形式成为另一个孔的抛物线帽，将结构包围起来。因此，一个四英尺半的洞变成了一个九英尺的内部空间。这些洞和它们各自的外壳一起，创造了一个半地下的房子，其中一系列挖掘出来的形式的消极和积极的表达方式采取了相互的关系，创造了多个可居住的空间。这个过程的结果是一种来自地球本身的形式和现象的体验。
Next, the casts were removed from their respective holes and flipped over to form duplicate, bulbous, paper shells, measuring four millimeters thick and spanning over twenty feet. Finally, the shells were each moved on top of the adjacent formwork, letting the inverted form of one hole become a paraboloid cap to the other that encloses the structure. Thus, a four-and-a-half-foot hole becomes a nine-foot interior space. Together, the holes, matched with their respective shells, create a semi-subterranean house in which the negative and positive expressions of a series of excavated forms take on a reciprocal relationship to create multiple habitable spaces. The result of this process is a formal and phenomenal experience derived from the earth itself.
设计中没有完美的线条，或制造的形状，或颜色。相反，栖息地的形式语言遵循自然界中的线索：穹顶的轮廓与挖掘出来的泥土完全吻合；纸的表面染上了大量的自然、土质的色调。此外，点缀在这些结构上的曲线型孔洞使光线能够渗入洞穴深处，为装置的内部体验赋予了生命。当光线从开口处透进来时，它在光亮的纸上反射，产生了一个几乎是教会式的，但又是某种程度上的亚伦环境。当人们进入这些空间时，他们被笼罩在一种原始的体验中–就像在地球母亲的子宫中孕育，或者在海面下的鲸鱼腹中贮藏。
There are no perfect lines, or manufactured shapes, or colors in the design. Instead, the formal language of the habitat follows cues from those found in nature: the contours of the domes perfectly matching those of the excavated dirt; the surface of the paper stained with a plethora of natural, earthen tones. Furthermore, the curvilinear apertures dotting the structures allow light to trickle into the depths of the caverns, giving life to the interior experience of the installation. As light filters in through the openings, it reflects off the glossy paper, producing an almost ecclesiastical, yet somehow sublunary, environment. As people move into the spaces, they become enveloped in a primordial experience—as if gestating in the womb of mother earth or stowing away in the belly of a whale just below the surface of the ocean.
Architects: Roundhouse Platform, i/thee
Area: 400 ft²
Year: 2020
Photographs: Neal Lucas Hitch
Manufacturers: Deer Busters, McNeel, Ram Board, Trimaco, Trimble
Design Team:Neal Lucas Hitch, Noémie Despland-Lichtert, Brendan Sullivan Shea, Martin Hitch, Kristina Fisher, Maxime Lefebvre, Julia Manaças, John Robert Craft, Charlotte Craft
Clients:Built for the 2020 Oakes Creek Residency
City:Clarendon
Country:United States