集环保、优雅、美丽于一身的拱形构筑
关于 Light Earth Designs
我们致力于创造有意义的地方和空间，让所有住在那里的人都感到感动和振奋，同时保持可持续性并与周围环境保持平衡。
We are committed to create places and spaces that are meaningful, moving and uplifting for all who occupy them, yet sustainable and in balance with the surrounding environment.
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre
地点：南非林波波河
完成：2015
建筑设计: Light Earth Designs
Location ：Limpopo，South Africa
Year ：2015
Architect : Light Earth Designs
位于南非北部林波波河和沙什河交汇处的马蓬古布韦国家公园，在自然环境中庆祝技术先进的古代贸易文明遗址。
Sited at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers, in northern South Africa, the Mapungubwe National Park celebrates the site of a technologically advanced ancient trading civilization in the context of a natural setting.
复杂的岩石景观既是设计的灵感来源，也是建造新口译中心的材料来源，最终形成了真正扎根于其所在位置的结构组合。该建筑位于公园入口的一个台地的山脚下，在视觉上由三个空心的石冢组成，这些石冢让人想起在南部非洲文化中常见的岩石标记。Timbrel vaulting是自然力量和材料的简单表达，用于建造戏剧性的洞穴般的空间。从远处看，起伏的岩石覆盖着拱顶，与景观融为一体。在接近的时候，薄的拱形边缘暴露出来，拱顶腾空而起，似乎从地球上翻腾而出。
The complex rocky landscape was both the inspiration for the design and the source of the materials for the construction of the new Interpretation Centre, resulting in a composition of structures that are authentically rooted to their location. The building, set at the foot of a mesa at the park entrance, is visually contained by three hollow cairns that evoke rock route-markers commonly found in Southern African cultures. Timbrel vaulting, a simple expression of natural forces and materials, is used to construct dramatic cave like spaces. From a distance the undulating rock clad vaults blend into the landscape. On approach the thin arched edges are exposed and the vaults soar and seem to billow out of the earth.
精致的人行道创造了一条曲折的斜坡路线，穿过展览空间，轻轻地爬上台地到达场地的最高点，为游客提供了丰富的体验和景观，唤起了穿越这片土地多种文化的复杂社会互动。
Delicate walkways create a zigzagging ramped route through the complex, through exhibition spaces, gently climbing the mesa to the highest point on the site, providing the visitor with a multiplicity of experiences and views, evoking the complex social interactions of the many cultures that have traversed the land.
该项目的议程超出了该地区的历史介绍范围，以唤醒人们对当地生态脆弱性的理解。这些目标体现在该中心的建设过程中，失业的当地人民接受了制造稳定土砖和建造timbrel拱顶的训练。泥瓦匠们继续使用这些技能，将剩余的瓷砖用于附近村庄的房屋。因此，该中心不仅是该遗址、非洲及其在世界起源中的独特地位的象征，也成为一个仍在展开的故事的一部分，一个文化与其自然遗产共生共存的故事。
The project’s agenda extends beyond the presentation of the area’s history to awaken an understanding of the vulnerability of the local ecology. These objectives are manifested in the construction process of the Centre in which unemployed local people were trained in the manufacture of stabilised earth tiles and in building the timbrel vaults. The masons have continued to use these skills by using the remaining tiles for their houses in nearby villages. Thus, the Centre is not only emblematic of the site, Africa and its unique place in the origin of the world become part of a story that is still unfolding, of culture developing in symbiosis with its natural legacy.
FR2 Offices
地点：美国芝加哥
完成：2015
室内设计: 2Hands
建筑设计: Light Earth Designs
Location ：Chicago,USA
Year ：2015
Interior Design: 2Hands
Architect : Light Earth Designs
一个为独特的、有才华的个人设计的独特办公环境。新办公室专为著名的美国商人、慈善家和卢旺达发展委员会前主席乔·里奇而设计。
A unique office environment for a unique and talented group of individuals. The new office fit out for the Famous American Business man, Philanthropist and former head of the Rwandan Development Board, Joe Ritchie.
他在芝加哥的新办公场所——一栋玻璃幕墙的写字楼，很可能是另一种传统的无菌办公环境。他求助于Peter Rich建筑事务所和Light Earth Designs创造了一个既崇高又开放的环境，但又允许谨慎的工作区域。我们的理念是创建一个美丽的、充满活力的、高耸的土瓦拱腹，由横跨在现有钢结构之间的三角形拱顶组成。在此基础上，由环保的“甲虫受损松树”制成的不同形状和高度的小型建筑物将包含工作区域。
His new premises, a floor of a glass clad speculative office block in Chicago could well be another conventional, sterile office environment. He turned to Peter Rich Architects and Light Earth Designs to create an environment that felt lofty and open but allowed for discreet working areas. Our concept is to create a beautiful, dynamic and lofty earth tiled soffit, formed of triangular vaults spanning between the existing steel structure. Under this, aedicules of different shapes and heights, made of environmentally friendly ‘beetle damaged pine’ will contain working areas.
所有材料都是天然的、可持续的和低维护性的。这种材料适合创造一个平静和尊严的空间，一幅画布，供乔用来填充他迷人的自传。
All materials are sourced to be natural, sustainable and low maintenance. The fit out will create a space of calm and dignity, a canvas for Joe to fill with his own fascinating autobiography.
拱形结构是用铺设在CNC切割面乳胶底座模具上的土砖建造的。该模具是通过对反向模型进行半比例三维扫描，并将信息转化为3D CAD模型来制作的。CAD模型包含了模具制造所需的所有信息。
The vaulting is constructed using earth tiles laid onto a CNC cut faceted latex backing mould. The mould is created by 3D scanning a reverse model at half scale and converting the information into a 3D CAD model. The CAD model contains all information required for fabrication of the mould.
Rwanda Cricket Stadium
地点：卢旺达基加利加汉加
完成：2015
建筑设计: Light Earth Designs
Location ：Gahanga, Kigali, Rwanda
Year ：2015
Architect : Light Earth Designs
该项目是Light Earth Designs为卢旺达板球体育场基金会进行的为期5年的工作的一部分，该项目是研究卢旺达如何通过使用当地劳动密集型建筑技术，从农业经济过渡到发展，从而避免进口，降低碳排放，以及建立技能和经济。板球体育场的主要围护结构是拱顶，通过在各层使用土工格栅加固，并承载地面上双弯曲拱顶的弹力点，使古老的地中海地砖拱顶(使用压缩土水泥瓦)适应中等地震环境。
The project is part of work undertaken by Light Earth Designs for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation over a 5-year period on how Rwanda can transition from an agriculture-based economy to development using local home grown labour intensive construction techniques, thereby avoiding imports, lowering carbon, and building skills and economies. The primary enclosure of the cricket stadium, the vaults, adapts ancient Mediterranean tile-vaulting (using compressed soil-cement tiles) to a moderate seismic context by using geogrid reinforcing in the layers and bearing the springing points of the doubly curved vaults on the ground.
拱顶遵循着向地面的力量的自然分解，很好地模拟了弹跳球的抛物线几何形状，并呼应了卢旺达特有的丘陵地形。英国剑桥大学建筑与工程专业的研究人员开发了土工格栅以提供一些抗震保护。外壳防水，顶部覆盖着局部破碎的花岗岩(遍布全国各地)，融入自然，同时增加了花岗岩的重量和稳定性。
The vaults follow the natural resolution of forces toward the ground, closely mimicking the parabolic geometry of a bouncing ball and evoking the cherished hilly topography of Rwanda. Geogrid is added to give some seismic protection, developed by research in architecture and engineering at Cambridge University. The shells are waterproofed then topped with local broken granite (found everywhere across the country), blending into the natural palate while the granite adds weight and stability.
这座建筑生长在平整场地时形成的切割土壤库中，因此成为景观的一部分。创造了一个奇妙的自然圆形剧场，可以看到远处的球场和湿地山谷。
The building grows out of the cut soil banking that was formed as the pitch was levelled – thus becoming part of the landscape. The banking creates a wonderful natural amphitheatre with great views to the pitch and wetland valley beyond.
虽然建筑的语言通过极高的结构效率来描述进步和活力，但是材料却是自然的，手工的和亲和的。这是卢旺达人用卢旺达材料建造的建筑。这些不完美的地方是值得高兴的——它们是人类的，也是美丽的——当与自然纹理的层次感相结合时，建筑会变得充满活力，仿佛在庆祝这个美妙的地方——一个我们工作和生活了5年以上的地方。
Whilst the language of the building speaks about progression and dynamism through extreme structural efficiency, the materials speak of the natural, the hand made and the human. It a building made by Rwandans using Rwandan materials. The imperfections are celebrated – they are human and beautiful – and when combined with the layering of natural textures the building becomes imbuesand celebrates this wonderful place – a place where we have worked and lived for over 5 years.
The Earth Pavilion
地点：英国伦敦
完成：2015
建筑设计: Light Earth Designs
Location ：London, UK
Year ：2015
Architect : Light Earth Designs
“可持续的贝壳”——在发展中国家使用土壤稳定瓷砖的Timbrel拱顶最近获得了2010年地球奖建筑环境类的奖项，以表彰这一激动人心的创新对发展中国家人民生活的潜在积极影响。该技术将进口材料的成本和高耗能降至最低，并可使当地的非熟练工人通过生产瓷砖和建造拱顶的方式来增强他们的能力。
‘Sustainable Shells’ – Timbrel vaulting using soil stabilised tiles in a developing world context has recently been awarded winner of the Built environment category at the 2010 Earth Awards in recognition of the potential future positive impact of this exciting innovation on people’s lives in the developing world. The technology minimises the cost and high embodied energy of imported materials and can empower local unskilled labourers by engaging them in both the production of the tiles and the construction of the vaults.
作为地球奖和“Start Festival——一个有所作为的花园派对”(由威尔士亲王赞助)的一部分，这项活动与Michael Ramage合作，在伦敦市中心圣詹姆士宫旁边的兰卡斯特大厦的地面上建造了一个拱形的土瓦馆。
As part of the Earth Awards and the ‘Start Festival – A Garden Party to Make a Difference ’ (sponsored by the Prince of Wales), the practice in collaboration with Michael Ramage constructed a small vaulted Earth tiled pavilion in the grounds of Lancaster House, next door to St James Palace in central London.
展馆由三个不同高度的简单重叠悬链线拱顶组成，每个拱顶在平面和剖面上都是优雅的喇叭形。这些拱顶只用了14天就建成了，使用的是伦敦一个建筑工地的废土制成的手工压制瓷砖。其他材料来源于对环境影响最小的材料，减少了浪费。用来制作瓷砖的胶合板被铺设成展馆的地板，并被堆叠成展台。一个板条木网，设计用来过滤低角度的晨光，是由绿色的甜栗树小枝扦插而成。
The pavilion consisted of three simple overlapping catenary vaults of varying heights, each stiffened in plan and section with an elegant flare. The vaults were built in only 14 days, using hand pressed tiles made out of waste soil from a London building site. Other materials were sourced to have minimal environmental impact, and to reduce waste. The plywood blanks used to form the tiles were laid to form the pavilion flooring and stacked to create exhibition stands. A slatted timber screen, designed to filter the low angle morning light was constructed from green sweet chestnut coppice cuttings.
参观者可以通过手压机、土壤和由此产生的地砖的展览了解这项技术。胶合板展台展示了入口的建造过程，展示了使用出口技术的建筑或未来项目的例子。游客走过一个宁静的空间，穿过一个低矮的拱顶，在那里他们可以触摸并感受到土壤的质量。
Visitors are introduced to the technology though an exhibit of the hand press, the soil and the resulting earth tiles. The plywood exhibition stands illustrate the build process on entrance and show examples of buildings or future projects using the technology on exit. Visitors walk through a serene space exiting though a low vault where they can touch and feel the quality of the soil finish.
在这种高调的背景下，我们展示了这种简单技术的结果是多么的经济、美丽和优雅。
In this high profile context, we demonstrated just how economic, beautiful and elegant the results of this simple technology can be.
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