The design for the Urban Guerrilla installation comes as a network collaboration between Spain/Mexico/UK and China taking on the inherent challenge in which Digital Architecture was born is that it has to be build. For most part of the 90’s in the architectural avant-garde the Digital/electronic domain was detach from the mechanical/material one.
城市游击队装置的设计是西班牙、墨西哥、英国和中国设计师共同合作的结果。对大多数90年代前卫建筑来说，数字/电子领域与机械/材料领域相脱节。
They were understood almost as different eras, a before and after. It is crucial to understand that the digital/electronic era was born to understand better the mechanical/material world, in other words the digital was created to analyse and control the complexities in the world in which we live.
它们被认为是几乎属于不同的年代，一个在前，一个在后。明白数字/电子时代的来临是为了更好地理解机械/材料领域，这一点至关重要。换句话说，人们创造出数字领域就是为了对我们所生活世界的复杂性进行分析和控制。
The installation is located on the façade of the School for Valencia’s Architects on one of the busiest streets in the centre of Valencia. The installation forms part of an ongoing exhibition inside the building called “Back to Nature” that addresses emerging digital architecture and its material process and production.
本装置位于巴伦西亚建筑学院的一个建筑立面上，该学院位于巴伦西亚最繁华的一条街道上。该场所独特之处在于该建筑从街面上凹进去，在接到上形成一个街角形状的凹形空间。本装置利用凹进的部分，将其填满。其几何图形几乎围绕构成立面的部分，从而在沉重的背景部分与一种流动的形式之间产生了一种紧张感。立面镶嵌式铺装与简单的装饰营造出一种轻盈的效果，使得该拐角更轻盈、更圆滑，从而将该建筑物规模转变为更加人性化规模。
The singularity of the site is that the building sets back from the block front generating a corner shape void on the street. This installation uses this residual space by saturating it. The geometry is almost flying around the elements that conforms the façade, creating tension between the heavy elements of the context and a fluid form. The surface tessellation and shinny finish creates a light effect that makes the corner lighter and smoother, changing the scale of the building to a more human scale.
Valencia’s territory had long and lasting tradition on ceramics fabrication. For this installation we had worked closely with “decorativa” one of the leading Spanish ceramics makers to develop a new application for their product. The fabricators engaged in a productive workflow in which we provide digital analysis and control of complex geometry and they provided their knowledge and craft expertise to create a bespoke material. Today’s mechanical + electronic control offers a great opportunity to develop and re-invent traditional materials in the search for innovation.
巴伦西亚有着陶瓷制作的悠久历史。在本装置上，我们与西班牙主要陶瓷商之一的“Decorativa”紧密合作，为他们的产品开发出一种新的应用。制造商开发出一种生产性工艺流程，我们提供数字分析和复杂几何图形的控制，他们提供知识和专门技巧，从而生产出预想的材料。今天的机械+电子控制为创新研究中开发和再发明传统材料提供了巨大可能。
新的社会要求新的城市空间和发展，它们必须富有创新性、创造性和可持续性。参数工具的使用帮助我们实现环境和经济可持续性。但如果这些工具完全按其功能标准使用，纯粹追求效率，那么建筑面临变成完全中立的危险，会以为技术能够解决我们所面临的所有问题。我们对于使用参数工具所感兴趣的是它通过技能创造现实的潜力，能够囊括文化、社会、政治……等问题、将意义与和意图带入城市干预的潜力。
Project: Urban Guerilla (Valencia, Spain 2009)
Design team: José Ramón Tramoyeres (Spain), Andrés Arias (Mexico), Paulo Flores (Mexico), Carlos Piles (Spain), Feng Xu (China)
Ceramics: DECORATIVA
Substructure: GRID