这两座名为“石中砖:拱门复兴”(Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival)的拱门安装在克勒肯维尔绿地上,旨在颂扬英国石材的美丽形态和多功能性。
Architecture studio Hawkins\Brown and engineering firm Webb Yates have created two hyperbolic arches made from bricks of unwanted stone at Clerkenwell Design Week in London.
Named Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival, the two arches were installed on Clerkenwell Green with the aim of celebrating the beauty and versatility of British stone.
▲ Hawkins\Brown 和 Webb Yates 希望在克勒肯维尔设计周的装置中展现石材的魅力
Hawkins\Brown and Webb Yates wanted to celebrate stone in their Clerkenwell Design Week installation
其中一座砖拱门由供应商 Hutton Stone 提供的不同色调的砂岩制成,另一座则由 Albion Stone 位于多塞特郡采石场的 Heritage Portland Stone 砖制成,两座拱门都建在由实心石材雕刻而成的座椅基座之上。
Reaching four metres tall, the freestanding arches were made from a single layer of 102 millimetre-thick bricks made from stone that had been quarried but not used due to geological variations.
Built atop seating carved from solid stone, one of the brick arches was made from varying shades of sandstone sourced from supplier Hutton Stone, while the other was made from Heritage Portland Stone bricks from Albion Stone's quarry in Dorset.
▲ 两座双曲线拱门建在座椅基座之上
Two hyperbolic arches were built atop seating bases
A pixelated pattern was made on the outside of the arches with T-shaped bricks.
According to Webb Yates and Hawkins\Brown, the stone arches have 66 per cent less embodied energy than if they were made from traditional clay-fired bricks, which have to be heated to high temperatures.
"Stone has the potential to replace many fossil fuel-era construction materials – a beautiful and natural material solution to our climate problems and a synthesis of craft technology and nature," Webb Yates cofounder Steve Webb told Dezeen.
"Our addiction to brickwork is nonsensical and terrible for the environment," he added. "Stone bricks might be a great transition material to wean us off the bad stuff."
▲ T形砖块形成了像素化图案
A pixelated pattern was achieved with T-shaped bricks
The slim structures was created using a catenary curve, which follows the shape of a rope hanging freely from two fixed points, said Webb
"These structures are often referred to as antifunicular – funicular meaning rope-like," he said.
"A hanging rope naturally adopts this mathematic form that is inversely a perfect, efficient compression structure," Webb continued. "Form is a fabulously interesting and beautiful way of cutting material and carbon."
▲ 这些砖块由英国采石场废弃的石材制成
The bricks were made from unwanted stone from British quarries
今年克勒肯维尔设计周上的其他装置包括 Arthur Mamou-Mani 的发光3D打印结构,以及艺术家 Chinneck 的波浪形砖立面,后者被设计成一栋“坐下”的格鲁吉亚风格房屋。
去年,Webb Yates 在皇家艺术学院夏季展览上展示了一个后张法石材框架。
Brick from a Stone: Arch Revival was created for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week, which ended on 22 May. Hawkins\Brown and Webb Yates plan to relocate the installation to the London Cancer Hub in Sutton and showcase it as part of the upcoming London Festival of Architecture in June.
Other installations at this year's Clerkenwell Design Week included a glowing 3D-printed structure by Arthur Mamou-Mani and an undulating brick facade by artist Chinneck, which was designed to look like a Georgian house sitting down.
Last year, Webb Yates presented a post-tensioned stone frame at the Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition.