阴影下的祈祷者

阴影下的祈祷者

Prayer of Shadow Protection

地点：荷兰厄伊特霍伦

业主：Province of Noord-Holland

结构工程师： DHV Ruimte en Mobiliteit

设计团队： Sean Matsumoto， Maurice Nio， Giuseppe Vultaggio

竣工时间： 2008年

造价： 6 000 000欧元

Address： Vrouwenakker， the municipality of Liemeer and Uithoorn， the Netherlands

Client： Province of Noord-Holland

Structural engineer： DHV Ruimte en Mobiliteit

Design team： JSean Matsumoto， Maurice Nio， Giuseppe Vultaggio

Completion： 2008

Costs： € 6 000 000

大部分桥梁，无论可动还是不可动，恐怕都不需要建筑师来设计。圈内人称它们为工程师的计算产品。 这些桥梁的建造是完全基于功能性而不可避免的缺乏诗意。只有在工程很大并追求高端的前提的下，客户才会有雇佣建筑师的预算。这就是为何对于这个相对较小的桥梁设计来说，建筑师的存在是必要的，因为其有助于脱离工程师的无差别性设计操作。

在设计的过程中，我们受启发于螳螂的四肢以及绝地星际战斗机的造型。不过影响此桥设计语言最多的还是行驶在Amstel-Drecht上游船。这些游船的类型异乎寻常的多，而且每一只都有自己的风格。

我们为这座桥梁选择了暗色调。 此颜色在绿与蓝之间，有点像荷兰的水只不过多了点闪烁。老Vrouwenakker桥正如大部分其他桥一样，是白色的。为何如此？可能因为白色是中性的颜色。白色并不表达自我。在中国，白色代表生命的逝去， 也许这是为何我们从来不选择白色的原因。这座桥乃暗色，所以当夜晚开始降临时，它那神秘而优雅的轮廓将渐渐消失于渐暗的地平线。（2010年荷兰设计奖—最佳公共空间）

For most bridges， whether they are fixed or moveable， an architect is not required. They are simply“engineered”， as they call it in professional circles， which results in functional constructions devoid of any poetry whatsoever. Unless it be big， prestigious civil works for which the necessary extra financial resources are reserved. That is why it is actually quite nice that for this relatively small bridge an architect was considered necessary， thus escaping civil engineering indifference.

During the design process we were inspired by the limbs of the praying mantis and the shape of the famous Jedi starfighter from Star Wars， but the language of this bridge corresponds most of all with the design of the pleasure boats that inhabit the Amstel-Drecht canal. It is truly amazing how many different types of these boats there are， every one of them very stylized.

We have made the bridge dark. The colour is something between green and blue， a bit like the water in Holland but more sparkling. The old bridge Vrouwenakker was white， as most bridges are. Why is that？ Probably because white is a neutral colour， a colour that does not really express itself. In China white is the colour of death， a reason for us never to choose for it. This bridge is dark， a mysterious and yet elegant figure of which the contours slowly disappear when the evening falls.