Renewal-Zone：建筑与艺术の好事发生︱百年破旧地下健身馆的奇袭

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霍尔本之家 (Holborn House)是为霍尔本社区协会 (HCA)打造的新的社区建筑，也拥有完整的公共艺术品。

隐藏在城市街区深处，为社区服务了百年之久的活力社区中心，从破旧地下室健身房转变成为无障碍设计、可持续且具有辨识度的新建筑。经过扩建，这里变成了一栋临街明亮的二层新建筑，里面有艺术家卡拉·图林 (Caragh Thuring) 创作的完整的公共艺术品。在此，HCA可以对已有的多样化的文化、社会和体育活动进行扩种，并且为多名员工带来灵活性的重要收入来源。在一个强大但机遇和环境存在明显差异的社区中，HCA发挥着关键性的作用。

项目的核心要素是再利用。过去的健身空间体量向天空和街道打开，新的屋顶天窗引入自然光、风景和通透性，营造出两层光线充足的新空间。与此同时，新的弹性地板、工作室、更衣室、工作区域和俱乐部带来了新的人群。基于与艺术家Caragh Thuring和社区的合作，经济结构和空间系统得到了调整，日常区域已转变为令人难忘的公共空间，提升了机构的可见性和识别度，并在这个历史悠久、人口密集的内城地区，彰显出社区的重要性及其文化底蕴。

旧的地下室被拆除至混凝土结构，并重新进行了衬砌和保温工序，健身房上方则引入了新的轻质钢屋顶和高耸的屋顶天窗。在其他区域，粗粝的混凝土拱腹、柱子和横梁仍保持裸露，与新的结构和材料、同层通行的开口、坡面入口大厅和电梯交错呈现。

新建筑的隔热效能优越，采用被动通风措施，能效也得到了优化。通过新型空气源热泵供暖和制冷，设计致力于通过减少电力供能实现减排的目标。完全无障碍的设计，显著增加了HCA所服务的人数，无障碍性的提升也让更多全龄段的人群能够使用整座建筑。

新的临街面具有通透性和连接性，方便孩子们确定自己的方位，工作人员可在必要时为其提供帮助。白色的钢桁架从街道入口和接待区一直延伸到双层高的健身区，将城市街区深处的景观引入室内并营造出温馨的光线环境。裸露的木托梁、钢材和砌块的结构清晰可见，将材料、尺度和非正式的轻松氛围带到上方的楼层中。

卡拉·图林 (Caragh Thuring) 以旧档案材料为基础创作出的艺术作品《美好的事情即将发生》(Great Things Lie Ahead)（2020 年），被融入了霍尔本之家的整个建筑之中。玻璃立面上刻有当地的名字、事件和地点，丝印的形式仿若周围的砖砌墙体从不同时代演变而来的不规则的砂浆线条，与裸露的钢结构相结合形成了一种“格鲁吉亚麦卡诺”的风格，加强了新结构与周围的历史建筑结构之间的对话。从健身房内衬的手工编织隔音板、通过艺术家打造的网格图形和色彩改造出的浴室独有的瓷砖，到参考了霍尔本森林起源的彩色金属制品，艺术品在与社区共同发展的过程中深深地融入到建筑结构之中。

6a与Dan Pearson及LB Camden合作，在狭窄的巷中打造了一处由花卉、攀缘植物和树木组成的野生栖息地。源自卡拉·图林 (Caragh Thuring)从20世纪20年代的旧档案簿中发现的话语，由他创作的“伟大的事情就在前方”的邀语和儿童游戏都被刻在了约克石的路面上。在重新铺设的乔治亚通道中，新的花盆和植物营造出户外空间和园艺区，也为当地的野生动物提供了栖息地家园。

6a建筑师事务所由斯蒂芬妮·麦克唐纳 (Stephanie Macdonald) 和汤姆·爱默生 (Tom Emerson)创立于2001年，屡获殊荣的作品涵盖艺术画廊、教育建筑、时装旗舰店和不同规模的住宅项目，为事务所赢得了国际赞誉。

事务所也被定义为建筑侦探，他们擅长在材料、景观、气候、历史和文化之间发掘新的联系，并从社会历史、建造传统、当代艺术时尚等方面汲取灵感元素，将项目深深植根于所在的区域。长期以来，事务所与工程师、园艺家和艺术家开展密切合作，汤姆·艾默生 (Tom Emerson) 本人是苏黎世联邦理工学院的建筑学教授、系主任，他领导的设计研究工作室探索创作与地域之间的关系。

6a建筑师事务所多次荣获RIBA奖项，其中包括备受瞩目的谢林奖，为摄影师Juergen Teller打造的工作室综合体曾在2017年获得了斯特林奖提名。2018年，汤姆·艾默生 (Tom Emerson) 荣获了康拉德·费迪南德·迈耶奖 (Conrad Ferdinand Meyer)，斯蒂芬妮·麦克唐纳 (Stephanie Macdonald) 入围了国际女性建筑师奖的最终提名。2021年新年之际，两人均荣获了著名的OBE奖，该奖项由女王颁发以表彰获奖者在建筑教育以及建筑领域的贡献。

6a建筑师事务所的作品刊登于国际上的专业媒体中。2020年，颇具影响力的意大利杂志Domus将6a列入全球前50的建筑师名录。2013年事务所的首本图书《Never Modern》面世（由苏黎世的Park Books出版），2017年El Croquis出版了事务所的专著，a+u的杂志特辑在2022年10月发行。

Holborn House is a new community building with an integral public artwork for Holborn Community Association (HCA).

This project has transformed the home of a vital local hub that has been serving the community for a century from a rundown basement gym, hidden deep within a city block into a fully accessible, visible and sustainable new building. It has been extended up into a luminous new two-storey, street-facing building with an integral public artwork by artist Caragh Thuring, from where HCA can expand its already varied offering of cultural, social and sporting activities, and which has the flexibility for multiple hires as a vital source of revenue. HCA plays a crucial role in an area that has a strong community, but also notable differences in opportunities and circumstances.

Re-use is a core element, opening up the existing gym volume to the sky and street, admitting daylight, views and transparency through a new roof and rooflights, and creating two new floors of light-filled spaces. At the same time, a new sprung floor, studios, changing rooms, workspaces and clubrooms provide spaces for new audiences. Economic construction and proprietary systems were adapted in collaboration with the artist Caragh Thuring, and the community, to transform everyday moments into memorable public spaces, bringing visibility and identity to the organisation, reflecting the importance and culture of the community in this historic and dense inner-city borough.

The old basement was stripped to its concrete structure, relined, tanked and insulated, with a new lightweight steel roof and tall roof lanterns introduced over the gym. Elsewhere, rough concrete soffits, columns and beams remain exposed, intercut with new structures and materials, incisions made for level access, a ramped entrance hall and lift.

The new building is highly insulated, passively ventilated and optimised for energy. With heating and cooling provided by a new air source heat pump, it has been designed to decrease emissions as the grid decarbonises. Full accessibility throughout significantly increases the number of people HCA can support and improved access allows more multigenerational use of the whole building.

The new street frontage offers transparency and connection, it is easy for children to orientate themselves and allows staff to assist when needed. White painted steel trusses unfold from street entrance and reception studio into the double height gym, introducing views deep inside the city block and creating a welcoming filigree lightness over the interior. Construction is legible in exposed timber joists, steels and blockwork bringing materiality, scale and an informal ease of use to the upper floors.

Caragh Thuring's artwork, Great Things Lie Ahead (2020), is integrated throughout the architecture of Holborn House and has built on old archive materials. A glazed façade is inscribed with local names, events and places, etched between the irregular mortar lines traced from multiple eras of surrounding brickwork. Combined with the exposed steel structure, it results in a kind of 'Georgian Meccano' that acts to strengthen the dialogue between the surrounding historic building fabric and the new structure. Evolving with the community, the artwork has become embedded into the fabric of the building through the handwoven acoustic panels lining the gym, the proprietary bathroom tiling transformed with the artist's gridded patterns and colour, and the brightly coloured metalwork that references Holborn's forest origins.

Working with LB Camden, 6a and Dan Pearson introduced new wildlife habitats of flowers, climbing plants and a tree into the narrow alleyway. Caragh Thuring's invitation, 'Great things lie ahead' - originating from a line Thuring found in old archive scrapbooks dating back to the 1920s - and children's games are inscribed into new Yorkstone paving. The new planters and greenery in the relit and repaved Georgian passageway have created an external room and gardening opportunities as well as homes and habitats for local wildlife.

HCA and 6a architects worked closely in securing the funds for the project. Holborn House has been made possible thanks to the generous support of:

Arper, Arts Council England, Bourne Amenity, London Borough of Camden, Camden Council Street Licensing & Highways, City Bridge Trust, Thomas Dane Gallery, Gardenlink, GreenBlue Urban, Hargrave Foundation, HS2 Community and Environment Fund, Hobson Trust, izé, Junckers, Kvadrat, Little Greene, London Marathon Charitable Trust, Marshalls Stone, Mayor of London Good Growth Fund, Power to Change, Sport England, Volker Highways, 3VB Charitable Trust, 29th May Charitable Trust, and many private individuals.

6a architects was founded by Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson in 2001. The practice has gained an international reputation for award-winning projects spanning art galleries, educational buildings, flagship fashion stores, and multi-scale residential projects.

Sometimes described as architect detectives, the studio finds new connections between materials, landscape, climate, history and culture, drawing on social histories, construction traditions, contemporary art and fashion, projects emerge firmly rooted in their place. The studio has longstanding collaborations with engineers, horticulturalists and artists and Emerson is professor of architecture and dean at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, where he leads a research and design studio, exploring the relationship between making and the territory.

The studio has won multiple national RIBA Awards, notably winning the Schelling Medal and nominated for the Stirling Prize for its studio complex for photographer Juergen Teller 2017. In 2018, Tom Emerson was awarded the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize and Stephanie Macdonald was a finalist for the International Women in Architecture Award. The New Year Honours 2021 saw both recognised with a prestigious OBE medal, awarded by the Queen for Services to Architecture and Education, and Services to Architecture respectively.

6a architects' work is published internationally. In 2020, the influential Italian magazine, Domus, included 6a in the 50 Best Architects in the world today. The practice's first book, Never Modern, was published in 2014 (Park Books, Zurich), a monograph in 2017 by El Croquis and an a+u monograph issue October 2022.

www.6a.co.uk