洛杉磯．夜未央: East Coast Tour (13) － Aronoff Center for Design and Art by Peter Eisenman

November 17, 2003

East Coast Tour (13) － Aronoff Center for Design and Art by Peter Eisenman

Aronoff Center for Design and Art is an addtion to College / Schools of Design, Architectur, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, designed by Peter Eisenman, completed in 1996.
Aronoff 設計暨藝術中心是辛辛那提大學設計, 建築, 藝術, 及規劃系所的增建案, 由 Peter Eisenman 設計, 完成於 1996.

The program of Aronoff Center is to re-organize 13,400 square meters of existing spaces and add 12,000 square meters of a library, theater, exhibition space, studio space, and office space. It's part of campus master plan of University of Cincinnati.
Aronoff 中心的 program 是重新組織 13,400 平方公尺的既有空間, 以及新增 12,000 平方公尺的圖書館, 展覽, studio, 辦公室等空間. 它是辛辛那提大學校園 master plan 的一部分.

Aronoff Center sits on hillside/hilltop environment. On the plan it looks like a curvy structure attached to the existing buliding(s). According to Eisenman, his "vocabulary derives from the curves of the land forms and the chevron forms of the existing building; the dynamic relationship between these two forms organize the space between them." Well, I am not sure if I get what he tried to convey, but I do observe its abundance in visual complexity: tilting grid system/planes deviated, reproduced, deformed, and displaced.
建築物坐落在山坡上. 在平面上看起來像是一個彎曲的結構附著在既有建物上. Eisenman 談到"他的語彙衍生於地形的曲線, 以及既有建築的山形袖章(?)形. 兩個形體之間的動態關係組織了它們之間的空間." 我不太清楚我是否了解他想要表達的概念, 但是我觀察到它視覺上的複雜性.

The exterior of Aronoff Center is painted pastel pink and cyan. I konw some people like it and think it "adds subtlety and soften the angle" or they like it because it's not like the gray concrete color they saw every day. Some people dislike exterior color scheme. I, personally, don't prefer those colors, either. The quality of construction seems a litte rough in some parts of exterior.
建築物的外部塗著粉紅, 粉藍的顏色. 有些人喜歡這些顏色, 認為它們增進了細緻性並且軟化了剛硬的角. 有些人不喜歡這些顏色. 我也不喜歡那些顏色. 建築物外部某些部分看起來有些粗糙.

The interior looks visually engaging to me at some angles. Part of reason is probably because I love complexity in architecture. Some people might find it disorienting. For me, I enjoy the concourse of different forces and the visual effects it brings as long as it's proportionally right.
建築物的內部看起來令我覺得可愛. 部分原因可能是因為我也喜歡看"複雜"的建築. 有些人覺得這棟建築物令他們失去方向感. 對我來說, 只要比例上處理得宜, 我喜歡不同的系統衝突/融合下的視覺效果.

You could see variety of comments about this building. However, I found that a lot of students and faculty there love this building. As Brenda Case Scheer, a professor of urban design and planning in a webpage puts it, "I like it. It's airy and spacious, visually engaging, and reasonably functional. But, most important, it is entertaining to talk about", maybe one of the most successful achievement of Aronoff Center is that it makes itself controversial and provides a lot of stories to tell?
這棟建築招致了很多不同的評語. 不過, 我發現有蠻多使用此建築物的師生都喜歡它. 一位都市設計及規劃的教授 Brenda Case 形容"她喜歡 Aronoff Center, 除了因為它寬闊的空間, 迷人的視覺效果, 以及正常的功能性之外, 最重要的是和別人談起這棟建築物時很有趣." Brenda 常針對不同的訪客, 提供不同的故事說明這棟建築, 解答他們的"疑惑"
或許 Aronoff Center 最重要的成就之一是讓自己具有爭議性, 而且還提供很多說故事的材料?