即使大流行病使洛杉矶的公共生活停滞不前，建筑业仍在继续，有增无减，并被认为是一项基本活动。绿色、白色、橙色和黑色的建筑纺织品闪闪发光的面纱遍布整个城市，它们的存在预示着许多事情：也许是为那些没有的人提供未来的庇护所，或者，更多的时候，是为公众提供一个简单的指示，让他们不要进入。这些坚固的、多孔的、五颜六色的纺织品通常被称为建筑防水布或碎石网，通过洛杉矶市无处不在的建筑工程，无意中成为一种近乎永久性的外墙美学。

Even as the pandemic brought Los Angeles public life to a halt, construction continued, unabated, and was deemed an essential activity. Shimmering veils of green, white, orange, and black construction textiles are found across the city, their presence signaling many things: perhaps a future shelter for those without or, more often than not, a simple indication for the public to keep out. Referred to often as construction tarps or debris netting, these robust, porous, and colorful textiles have inadvertently become a near-permanent facade aesthetic through the ubiquity of construction in the city of Los Angeles.

Veil Craft是一个由这些纺织品制成的建筑装置，将Craft Contemporary的院子改造成一个意想不到的口袋公园。街道上的墙，面对着普通的绿色碎石网，伪装成威尔希尔大道上的另一个建筑工地。然而，这堵墙的底部打开了一个深深的遮阳篷，产生了一个慷慨的、有阴影的门廊，邀请公众进入院子的内部。在这个门槛之外是一个院中院，上面挂着30英尺高的白色碎石网的长褶板。

Veil Craft is an architectural installation made from these textiles, transforming the courtyard of Craft Contemporary into an unexpected pocket park. The street wall, faced in commonplace green debris netting, masquerades as another construction site on Wilshire Boulevard. Yet the base of this wall opens up into a deep awning, producing a generous, shaded porch that invites the public into the courtyard interior. Beyond this threshold is a courtyard within a courtyard, draped with long pleated panels of white debris netting hung thirty feet up.

在这个阴凉的内部空间，褶皱的织物创造了不同的透明度和质地效果，同时俏皮地分开，为与现有庭院元素的偶然交集让路。当人们在院子里穿行时，各种空间进行着不断变化和展开的遮蔽和揭示行为，纺织板的精心缝制和组装将对家庭、身体、服装和装饰品的引用与典型的建筑实践并列在一起。既发挥了这些材料的关联，又颠覆了这些材料的关联，该装置将洛杉矶不断变化的景观中日常的、不可见的物质性带了出来，以便对其进行质疑。

In this shaded inner space, the pleated fabric creates varying effects of transparency and texture while playfully parting to make way for serendipitous intersections with existing courtyard elements. The various spaces perform a continuously shifting and unfolding act of veiling and revealing as one navigates through the courtyard, and the careful stitching and assembly of the textile panels juxtapose references to domesticity, body, garment, and ornamentation alongside typical construction practices. Both playing into and upending these material associations, the installation brings forward the everyday, invisible materiality of Los Angeles’ changing landscape in order to interrogate it.

M&A x Craft Contemporary在博物馆院子里的合作关系本身变成了一系列夏季活动的公共场所，这些活动将艺术家和讲故事的人带到一起进行对话，重新关注城市变化、劳动实践和社区参与的问题。最终，”面纱工艺 “旨在激活人们对我们建筑环境中被忽视的物质性的兴趣，将专家和非专家的公众聚集在一起，就洛杉矶的物质文化进行对话。

The M&A x Craft Contemporary partnership in the museum courtyard itself transforms into a public venue for a series of summer events that bring artists and storytellers together into dialogue, with a renewed focus on questions of urban change, labor practices, and community engagement. Ultimately, Veil Craft aims to activate an interest in the overlooked materiality of our built environment, bringing together expert and non-expert publics in conversation about Los Angeles’s material culture.

M&A和Craft Contemporary感谢Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts的支持。Veil Craft还得到了帕萨迪纳艺术联盟的支持。

M&A and Craft Contemporary gratefully acknowledge the support of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Veil Craft is additionally supported by the Pasadena Art Alliance.

Architects: Figure
Area : 2440 ft²
Year : 2021
Photographs :James Leng, Jennifer Ly
Partner : James Leng, Jennifer Ly
Designer : Tiger Fu, Oliver Moldow, Reishan McIntosh
Textiles : Eagle Industries
City : Los Angeles
Country : United States