不久前,在2017年,我们向我们的新客户承诺,我们知道如何做一个 “梯度墙”。一个开始是密封的,但渐渐消失,消失到无影无踪……消失到空气中。事后看来,我们承诺得相当快,不知道这个承诺会给我们带来什么冒险。

A while ago, in the year 2017, we promised new clients of ours that we know how to do a “gradient wall”. One that starts sealed but fades and disappears into nothing… into the air. In hindsight, we promised quite quickly, not knowing the adventure that promise will take us.

为什么你甚至需要淡化一堵墙?我们想加强对隔壁邻居的隐私保护,同时仍然给地下室地板提供充足的日光。为了同时实现这两个目标,褪色墙似乎是一个完美的解决方案。

Why do you even need to fade a wall? We wanted to enhance privacy from the next-door neighbor, while still giving ample daylight to the basement floor. To achieve them both at once, a fading wall seems like the perfect solution.

在此后的几个月和几年里,我们为这个承诺流了很多汗。我们流汗是因为我们花了数百个工作小时来开发褪色系统。我们流汗是因为将这种幻想纳入预算约束几乎是不可能的。我们流汗是因为我们明白,虽然物理学和Photoshop都以字母P开头,但这就是它们的所有相似之处。

In the months and years since we have sweated a lot over that promise. We sweated because it took hundreds of work hours to develop the fading system. We sweated because putting that fantasy into a budgetary constraint is nearly impossible. We sweated because we understood that although physics and photoshop both start with the letter P, that’s all the similarities they share.

但我们流汗主要是因为我们有时害怕。害怕我们无法迎接这一挑战和承诺。这可能是不可能的。第一个网站模型不稳定。第二个不是很轻。第三次是超出预算。第四个….,好吧……你明白的。这并不容易,也不简单。

But we sweated mostly because we were sometimes afraid. Afraid that we cannot rise to that challenge and that promise. That might be impossible. The first site model was unstable. The second wasn’t light. The third was off-budget. The fourth…. well… you get the picture. It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t simple.

2022年8月,我们终于能够呼吸,擦去所有的汗水和毛巾。在那个夏天结束的时候,这面墙就像我们设想的那样矗立着–慢慢地消逝在天空中。

In august 2022 we were finally able to breathe and wipe away all the sweat and the towels. At the end of that summer the wall was standing, just as we envisioned it – slowly fading to the sky.

Architects: Anderman Architects
Area : 300 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Amit Geron
Manufacturers : Boffi, T-Metal, APEX, Parqueteam
Landscaping : Itamar Shachar-Brodesky, Itamar Landscaping LTD
Lighting : S.T. Or
Design Team : Adi Cohen, Mor Novich Shomer, Sharon Barak, Sivan Kohn
Management : HaChim Green Project
Kitchen : Boffi
Framework : T-Metal
City : Tel Aviv-Yafo
Country : Israel