在芝加哥，现代主义达到隐喻和物理高峰的城市Atelier 2B-由季叶云、尼古拉斯·李、瑞安·奥特森组成的团队-最近分享了芝加哥建筑基金会的奇奇设计竞赛(芝加哥建筑双年展的一部分)的前五名奖，因为他们的项目是“中部的软：合作核心”。由于米斯的遗产和国际风格，阿泰利埃2B提出了一个现代主义的塔-保留(至少外部)是由三个堆叠的矩形卷与梯田分开，从街道后面的一个大型公共广场。该项目简介呼吁“一个新的建筑，设计和教育中心”，由包括斯坦利·蒂格曼(Stanley Tigerman)、大卫·阿贾耶(David Adjaye)、奈德·克雷默(Ned Cramer)、莫妮卡·庞塞·德莱昂(Monica Ponce de Le

In Chicago, the city where Modernism reached both its metaphoric and physical peak, Atelier 2B, a team of Yewon Ji, Nicolas Lee, Ryan Otterson, recently shared the top-five prize of the Chicago Architecture Foundation's ChiDesign Competition (part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial) for their project Soft in the Middle: The Collaborative Core. Indebted to the legacy of Mies and the International Style, Atelier 2B proposed a Modernist-tower-redux that (externally at least) is composed of three stacked rectangular volumes bisected with terraces, set back from the street by a large public plaza. The project brief called for “a new center for architecture, design and education,” in a competition judged by critics including Stanley Tigerman, David Adjaye, Ned Cramer, Monica Ponce de Leon, and Billie Tsien.

Atelier 2B团队的灵感来自于Mies van der Rohe的“重复”和“平凡”的品质，这些特质强调“城市的平面(支柱)、脚印的解体(玻璃大厅)和垂直运动(核心是巩固的核心)”。他们的中间软设计试图模仿第一和第二原则，但试图重新定义第三原则：通过将循环从核心推进，建筑物的中心被释放，而不仅仅是流通。如Atelier 2B所述：

The Atelier 2B team was inspired by the “repetitive” and “mundane” qualities of Mies van der Rohe which emphasize “the plane of the city (the plinth), the dissolution of footprint (the glass lobby), and vertical movement (consolidated core as a centerpiece).” Their design for Soft in the Middle attempts to emulates the first and second principle, but seeks to redefine the third: by pushing circulation away from the core, the building’s center is freed to become far more than mere circulation. As described by Atelier 2B:

我们提出用软核代替典型的硬的、固结的核心：核不再抵抗城市连续平面的延伸，而是吸入公共活动，给密斯原先只在计划中出现的已被溶解的公共边界带来了新的生命。

We propose the typical hard, consolidated core to be replaced with a soft one: an extension of the plinth where the core no longer resists the continuous plane of the city, but rather inhales public activity, bringing a new life to Mies’ dissolved public boundary which before only appeared in plan.

 Out-of-School-Time Youth Program. Image Courtesy of Atelier 2B

校外青年计划。Atelier 2B的图像制作

从外部看，建筑堆叠的盒子在视觉上将居民分隔开来：芝加哥建筑基金会(CAF)和高层建筑与城市住区委员会(CTBUH)的低容量房屋总部，中间是校外青年计划，顶层是设计与联合艺术高中的所在地。虽然从外部看是僵硬的，但内部的情况却是完全不同的：特定的程序空间被推到了两边，从而建立了一个具有协作性和柔软性的膨胀核心。

From the exterior, the building’s stacked boxes visually separate the inhabitants: the lower volume houses headquarters for the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the middle houses the Out-of-School-Time Youth Program, and the top is home to the Design and Allied Arts High School. While rigid from the outside, the picture is quite different inside: specifically programmed space is pushed to the sides, thereby establishing an expansive core that is collaborative and soft.

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把这个合作核心描述为“米斯‘宇宙空间的逻辑延伸”，这个项目与其他两个试图颠覆现代主义遗产的结构有着明显的相似之处。诺曼·福斯特在香港的汇丰大厦(HSBC Tower)和理查德·罗杰斯(Richard Rogers)位于伦敦的劳埃德大厦(Lloyds Of London Building)，都有着一种理念，即推动建筑系统远离核心，可以让大型中庭变得灵活和社交空间

Describing this collaborative core as "the logical extension of Mies’ 'universal space,'" the project holds obvious similarities with two other structures that sought to subvert the legacy of modernism. Both almost thirty years old, Norman Foster’s HSBC Tower in Hong Kong and Richard Rogers' Lloyds of London Building both share the philosophy that pushing building systems away from the core allows for large atria that are flexible and social spaces.

 Left: Interior of Foster's HSBC Tower. Image © Flickr user nmichelin licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0; Right: Interior of Rogers' Lloyds of London. Image © Mark Ramsay. Used under Creative Commons

左：福斯特汇丰大厦内部。图片c Flickr用户nmichelin许可在CC下由-NC-ND 2.0；右：罗杰斯劳埃德的伦敦内部。图片：马克·拉姆齐。在知识共享项下使用

虽然这两项高科技案例研究很可能是“通用空间”的更纯粹形式，但Atelier 2B的建议占据了更大的回旋余地。它们的“协作核心”包括学习空间、体育馆、表演厅、剧院、图书馆和花园。设计力求在建筑物占用者的主权和相互融合之间找到一种平衡：

While the two high-tech case studies are likely purer forms of a “universal space," Atelier 2B’s proposal takes greater leeway. Nestled in their “collaborative core” are learning spaces, a gymnasium, performance hall, theater, library and garden. The design seeks to find a balance between sovereignty of the building's occupants and intermixing:

程序分发系统允许每个组织的自主性和个人身份，同时也鼓励用户之间的接触和思想交流。此外，这亦容许楼宇运作的灵活性，即建筑物的不同部分可在不同时间向公众开放或封闭。

The system of program distribution allows for the autonomy and individual identity of each organization, yet at the same time, instigating encounters and exchange of ideas between users. Furthermore, this also allows for flexibility in building operation, where different sections of the building could be open or closed to the public at different times.

 Design and Allied Arts High School. Image Courtesy of Atelier 2B

设计与联合艺术高中。Atelier 2B的图像制作

我们可能从来都不是现代的，也可能永远不会，但是现代主义的理想主义的失败不需要掩盖像“宇宙”这样的思想的实际成功。工作室2B的设计是一个乌托邦式的家，为建筑的许多面孔，一个以共享和合作空间定义今天的现代化的变化。中部的软实力或许是理想主义的，但芝加哥有着在传统面前飞翔的历史；一个多世纪以来，芝加哥一直是从密斯到马岩松等正式建筑试验的良好温床。工作室2B的建议是城市传说的血统的延伸。

We may never have been modern and may never be, but Modernism’s idealistic failures need not overshadow the practical success of ideas like "universal space." Atelier 2B’s design is a utopian home for architecture’s many faces, one that peppers an altered modernism with the shared and collaborative spaces that define today. Soft in the Middle may be idealistic, but Chicago has a history of flying in the face of convention; for over a century, the city has been a favorable breeding ground for formal experimentation in building, from Mies to Ma Yansong. Atelier 2B’s proposal is an extension of the city’s fabled lineage.

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建筑师Atelier 2B Location 1007 S Wabash Ave，IL 60605，美国建筑师主管Atelier 2B设计团队Yewon ji，Nicolas Lee，Ryan Otterson Project 2015

Architects Atelier 2B Location 1007 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, USA Architect in Charge Atelier 2B Design Team Yewon Ji, Nicolas Lee, Ryan Otterson Project Year 2015