在山口艺术与媒体中心(YCAM)前院的广阔草坪上,日本建筑公司Assistant的Megumi Matsubara和Hiroi Ariyama设计了两个亭子,孩子们可以在夏天玩。该项目是YCAM为庆祝其10周年而委托的,并与YCAM的教育项目团队合作完成。YCAM以引进日本和国外最前沿的艺术和媒体领域而闻名,作为一个艺术平台,分享基于IT的媒体技术、戏剧和舞蹈表演、艺术展览等。每个展馆都有一个圆形的花园,里面有各种元素混合在一起;太阳、地球、空气、视觉图像和声音。

On the vast lawn of the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) forecourt, Megumi Matsubara & Hiroi Ariyama of the Japanese architecture firm Assistant designed two pavilions where children can play over the summer. The project was commissioned by YCAM to celebrate their 10th anniversary and made in collaboration with the YCAM’s educational program team. YCAM is well known for introducing the most cutting-edge in the spheres of Arts and Media in Japan and abroad, serving as an artistic platform for sharing IT-based media technology, theatre and dance performances, art exhibitions, and more. The pavilions each feature a circular garden in which a variety of elements commingle; the sun, the earth, the air, visual images and sound.

这些展馆鼓励儿童离开YCAM大楼的媒体环境,与周围的环境互动,包括自然光、风、直接触摸土壤和植物、感受天空和鸟类与高科技媒体技术的混合。儿童在展馆内的体验和由游乐场工具引起的体验之间的界限是模糊的。 建筑和游乐场设备被赋予了同等的分量,共同定义了整个环境。

The pavilions encourage children to leave the media environment in the YCAM building and interact with the immediate surroundings, including natural light, wind, touching directly soil and plants, feeling the sky and birds mixed with the high-tech media technology. The boundaries between children’s experiences inside the pavilions and the ones induced by playground tools are blurred. The architecture and the playground equipments are given an equal weight and together define the whole environment.

圆形的形状淡化了人们的方向感。两个亭子的结构都包含空隙,相互颠倒了计划:一个将空隙放在中心,而另一个则被空隙环绕。正是这些空隙欢迎风和光进入空间,提高了儿童对他们周围微妙的自然现象的认识。

The circular shape dilutes one’s sense of direction. The two pavilions’ structures both contain the void reversing each other’s plan: one holds the void at the centre, while the other is circled by the void. It is those voids that welcome wind and light into the space, heightening children’s awareness towards subtle natural phenomena that surround them.

Architects: ASSISTANT
Area: 407 m²
Year: 2013
Photographs: YCAM
Manufacturers: Color Kinetics, Takiron
Structural Engineer :Tokyo University of the Arts, Kanada Structural Design Lab / Mitsuhiro Kanada, Miki Ozeki
Playground Equipment Designers:YCAM, Daiya Aida, Kiyoshi Suganuma
Client:Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), http://www.ycam.jp/
Site Area:8667 m2
Architects In Charge:Hiroi Ariyama, Megumi Matsubara
City:Yamaguchi-shi
Country:Japan