Text &photos by Bai Xiaoci Translation by Bian Jiajin

光的价值

Text &photos by Bai Xiaoci Translation by Bian Jiajin

TV ALUE OF Light

The wonder of architecture lies in the ability to improve and refine the quality of space by using the existing environment and lighting—just like 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture winning workHutong Children’s Liberary and Art Centreby Chinese architect Zhang Ke. It totally shows the value of designing in this sense.

建筑设计的奇妙之处，就在于利用已有的空间和光线，提升和改进质量——就像中国设计师张珂获得阿卡汉大奖的作品《微杂院》，充分体现了设计的这一价值。

Hutong Children's Liberary and Art Centre, Beijing, China2016年阿卡汉获奖作品——微杂院(中国北京)

Friendship Centre, Gaibandha, Bangladesh2016年阿卡汉获奖作品——交流中心（孟加拉共和国）

Lately, the news about architecture is that Chinese architect Zhang Ke won the annual Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

The award winning project by Zhang is a transformation of a compound of houses in Beijing Hutong called Hutong Children's Liberary and Art Centre. The chaotic community that was before involved in equity problems, got refreshed by architects' concordance and rearrangement. The activity centre of the community is a black brick glass box lit by warm lighting, which has also turned the chaotic compound into a new Micro Compound full of human kindness. Light, makes the public and private areas clear and visible.

The spiritual lives of humans cannot exist without light, and the imagination of light even more.“Talk to the God” — light will be the best media, and even many pieces religious architecturs regard light as a kind of construction material to emphasise the metaphysics of religion. As for this, light, could be more important than armoured concrete. One of the best-known examples would be the Church of the Light by Tadao Ando. I visited it in 2015. In a Kasugaoka community in Ibaraki near Osaka, the clergy was about to close the door after people had left. I asked her to let me have a quick look for just 10 minutes, so that I could finally enter the church and see the worldwide famous Crucifix of the Light——a simple cross inlaid into lighting cracks on wall. The sharp comparison made this small space sacred.

Among the winners of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture there is a project in Bangladesh. Here light is also viewed as an important element integrated in the work. I feel the power of interaction between the lighting and the space even surpasses what I saw in that afternoon in Kasugaoka.

Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge, Tehran, Iran 2016年阿卡汉获奖作品人行天桥(伊朗, 德黑兰)

前不久，传来消息，中国建筑师张珂获得最新一期的阿卡汉建筑奖。

张珂获奖的项目是一个北京胡同大杂院的设计改造，他们团队将其命名为“微杂院”。一个因产权红线混乱不堪的杂居区，经过建筑师的梳理捏合，焕发了新的空间生命力。社区的活动中心，是一个有暖光溢出的玻璃青砖盒子，让原先混乱的大杂院，变成了人情味十足的微杂院。光线，让公共和私人的界限变得清晰可见，杂居的混乱换成了社交的魅力。

人的精神生活更离不开光以及对光的想象。“与神对话”——光是最好的媒介，以至于很多宗教建筑把“光”当作一种建筑材料运用其中，凸显宗教建筑的形式感。在这点上，光，比钢筋水泥更为重要。最为著名的就是安藤忠雄设计的“光之教堂”，我2015年曾经造访过那里，大阪近郊的茨木，春日丘社区，看到了那个全球闻名的光的十字架，两条十字交叉道采光墙缝，强烈的光比，让小小的空间充满神性。

这次阿卡汉奖获奖名单里有个孟加拉国的清真寺项目，建筑师也把光作为重要建筑元素融汇其中，光线与空间组合起来的力量，我感觉超越了春日丘的那个下午。

If Church of the Light by Tadao Anto is a beautiful still picture, the Mosque by women architect Marina Tabassum would be a vivid GIF.如果说安藤的光之教堂是一张静默的JPG美图，女性建筑师Marina Tabassum设计的清真寺，是一张充满灵性的GIF动图。

Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Decca is made of red bricks, with a square structure surrounding a round hall. When sunshine goes over the U-shaped mountain and shadows on the praying wall with a huge light spot, it's like the sun with its golden ring, sinking from above to below, and finally lights up the whole hall; the ceiling of the round praying hall has a lot of holes on it, and then beams of light appear on the floor together, leaving shining spots in the shade.这座位于达卡的Bait Ur Rouf 清真寺，红砖结构，方形围合套着一个圆形大厅，阳光越过U形山墙照射在祷告墙上的巨大光斑，犹如太阳金轮，从墙上慢慢下沉，最终照亮整个大厅；圆形祷告厅的天花板上凿了无数个空洞，光线集体投射在地上，在暗处留下星群光斑，在摄像机的延时拍摄下，形成了金乌下沉群星转换的效果。