Create freedom and rebirth
If some buildings are attached to a certain form, the "absolute tower" is a building that brings people infinite reverie. Ma Yan Song said: "The Absolute Tower was not named by us, but by a critic of a famous local media. In their view, the building looks as elegant as Marilyn Monroe. As a popular art, architecture does not deliberately shape, but truly reflects human nature and nature, giving people unlimited imagination and triggering people's rich psychological activities. Some people say that this building is like Marilyn Monroe, and some people say that it is like flowing music, but it gives people a good feeling. " "All our works are against the oppressive feeling brought by machines, and also against the architecture of technology first and low-cost replication. People need to be liberated from the tension and oppression in the industrial age and find an equal and open space. The functionality that architecture should meet should be extended to people's spiritual world in the new century, creating greater freedom and more possibilities for people's lives. "
While completing the architectural design of absolute towers, Ma is still designing part of the interior space of the building. Each floor of the building has a large balcony, and the space of the apartment is not divided into functional areas, so mixed functions become the most possible functions.
In the architecture of the industrial age, space is artificially divided into various functions, such as eating, sleeping and meeting guests. Man is ruled by architecture, and he must obey a rule instead of creating his own space at will. Ma said that the creative spirit we always adhere to is people-oriented, and architecture can only be the stage and background for people's activities. "Do fish need a fish tank?"
What kind of space is most suitable for people's needs? Ma and his team have been thinking and studying these philosophical architectural problems. Their ideas have gone beyond architecture.
In the office space of MAD architecture firm, there is a small fish tank, which won an international prize. "We filmed the activities of fish with a video camera, analyzed their behaviors in the computer, found some habits of them, and designed a fish tank according to their daily needs. But then we thought, what does fish have to do with fish tanks? Compared with indifference to rivers and lakes, any kind of fish tank is a restriction on fish. From living in caves to tents, and now living in square box buildings all over the city, every technological progress not only improves people's living conditions, but also restricts the communication between man and nature and their free life. After we have such a high level of technology, what we should think about is how to make people live more openly, how to use technology, respect people's choices, and let space have its own personality as much as possible, not restrictions. "
Three feet of cold
Ma and his partners have always adhered to the same design idea, whether they became famous in new york because of the "floating island" transformation scheme of New York World Trade Center, won the first prize in the international competition of Shanghai National Software Export Base, won the first prize in the conceptual design competition of Shanghai Modern Art Park (S-MAP), including the recent victory in the international design competition of Guangzhou Biological Island Plaza, and the right to design the "Absolute Tower".
But at home, it takes a process for the market to know them. In recent years, they have completed 60 or 70 projects, and only a few have started construction. Ma Yan Song said: "For us, it is more important to spread our ideas, and buildings can meet people's needs as much as possible. This is the inevitable future. The most important tradition in China is strong creativity, which is a very important factor that determines the continuous development of our nation. The creation of architecture lies not in form, let alone imitation, but in achieving the greatest significance with the most efficient efforts. Our architecture is by no means pursuing novelty and strangeness in form, but creating the future. "
In Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, there is a very interesting exhibit-"Hadid's Future Home". This is the last work of Ma Yan Song in Hadid's office. Ma Yan Song said, "My teacher Hadid very much hopes that we can set up our own company and realize our pursuit. But we should not only pursue artistry, but also see the realistic problems in China. As architects in China, we should pay more attention to our contribution to society. "
For Ma and his company, success is a long-term accumulation and pursuit; Similarly, if we want to get the same recognition in China and internationally, we must break many past standards and make continuous efforts to make the China market have a newer understanding of architecture.
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MAD architects have a spacious space in Beijing. Some employees concentrate on their work in front of the computer, while others communicate freely. English has become the common language of communication. Among the three partners, there are American and Japanese, and the blond employees cooperate with China employees. In an interview with a reporter, another Canadian architect made a special trip to MAD architecture office to find a job.
Because Canadian and European design projects travel back and forth between China and Europe and America, it has become the working style of a new generation of trapeze architects. At home, they also suddenly got many tasks including real estate development projects. Ma said that in the 1970s, people's creativity began to explode, including architecture, music and painting, and the younger generation in China began to shine on the international stage.
In the office space of MAD architecture firm, there are no doors, no partitions between tables, nothing that hinders communication, and even no national boundaries and languages. Partners come from different nationalities and employees come from different countries. They work hard for the same goal, that is, architecture makes people's lives more free.
The growth course of international architect Ma.
Ma graduated from Yale University with a master's degree in architecture and Samuel J. Excellent design award. In 2006, he won the Young Architect Award of new york Architectural Association, and in 20001year, he won the AIA architectural research award. He has worked in Zaha Hadid's office in London and Peter Eisenman's office in new york. In 2004, he established MAD's Beijing office and taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He also gave speeches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the new york Architecture Union. The architectural works include the award-winning works of international competitions widely discussed by the international architectural community, the absolute super-high-rise apartment in Toronto, Canada (completed in 2009), the first prize-winning works of floating island-rebuilding New York World Trade Center in 2002, the first prize of Guangzhou Bio Island Solar System Plaza International Competition (completed in 2008), the first prize of Shanghai Modern Art Park (S-MAP) conceptual design competition, and the first prize of "Net+Bar" conceptual design competition. Installation works "Fish Tank" and "Ink Ice" were exhibited in China Art Museum and China Millennium Monument respectively. "Floating Island-Reconstruction of New York World Trade Center" has also been hotly debated by the architectural circles at home and abroad, and has been collected by China Art Museum.
"In China's traditional culture, there are many examples showing people's desire for new technology and new creation. I think this desire for innovation is a tradition in China. "
Horses are very popular Absolute towers, which originated from his design, won the bid in Mississauga. At this point, those who scolded him for only designing on drawings stopped.
History is like a round table. If you want to talk, you must first have the right to sit at the table. "Dialogue with the world must attract everyone's attention and let the world know that someone is making noise." Ma Yan Song said seriously, "I won the prize at least to get the right to sit at the table, and then I got the opportunity to speak and raise social issues. My goal is to go out of China and go international. In recent years, many foreign designers have come to China, but few China architects have been able to go abroad. This is a historic step! Going out is the job of our generation. "
32 years old. In any case, the horse is already on the way to the historical round table.
"Architecture should solve contemporary problems"
In today's China, the construction industry is in a chaotic era. Siheyuan continues the cultural blood in childhood memories, while office buildings echo the contemporary reality in adult life. Since the new century, urban construction has become a confrontation between two voices, one is the experiment of foreign architects, and the other is the protection of China experts. As the "backbone" of the new design force, Zhang Yonghe is committed to reviving the tradition in the new building. As for how to resurrect, no one has made it clear.
Ma used to live in a quadrangle. At that time, Beijing was not so big. When I was a child, I often rode across Chang 'an Avenue. Without tall buildings, the earliest urban experience was a TV series called The Legend of Tall Buildings. The supernatural imagination of high-rise interpersonal ecology seems to herald the arrival of a metropolis. For Malay, who had long hair and suddenly appeared in primary school, his view seems a little forgetful: quadrangles are not a classic form of living. There are officers and men standing guard in the alley, and no whispering is allowed. There is no public space in the imperial city, and every yard is a cell.
Ma Yan Song is brave and imaginative. He designed Tiananmen Square as a park with trees.
Ma Yan Song inherited the tradition of Koolhaas, and his American teacher was Za Hadid, a student of Koolhaas. Even in America, the design of horses is too radical. Although the "floating island" to rebuild the "World Trade Organization" was applauded by construction experts, it was replaced by another extremely mediocre design. It seems that drawings can only be drawings, but drawings also mean utopia, Bauhaus and fascism in Germany, and international production in the former Soviet Union. This fantasy of the future is perfectly realized in American metropolis-Manhattan is a utopian city. Utopia is not just an armchair strategist, it means grasping the trend and planning an ideal city with a passionate rationality on the basis of respecting contemporary reality.
As a result, Ma moved the "floating island" that was not acclimatized in the United States to Beijing CBD. He firmly believes that it will come true.
So some people called Ma Yan Song like Koolhaas. The point is not the strangeness of form. Ma said that he never cared about form, but whether your works solved contemporary problems. Ma thinks that the difference between him and that generation is that he thinks that the creation does not lie in the collage of ancestors and modernity, but more important than whether quadrangles conform to the aesthetics of China people: how do you consider the density, interpersonal relationship, power and new lifestyle of contemporary China cities? You can like old buildings, but this is not the development trend; The old building in Holland is very good, but now people recognize its new building because it solves the contemporary problems in Holland. If China's contemporary problems are special, then the horse architecture is also special. If China's contemporary problems are the same all over the world, then his architecture can be brought to new york.
"Respect but not stick to tradition"
Ma's name first appeared in front of the domestic media and the public because his design work "Floating Island" was shortlisted for the design of the World Trade Center in New York in 2002. Although he failed to become the final winner due to cost and other reasons, his poetic imagination reminds people of this China student who studied as a graduate student at Yale University.
After graduation, Ma co-founded the American MAD office in Beijing. Just as his office was named "MAD", which means "crazy", his design concept is famous for being bold and avant-garde. Ma is more like an idealist like a urchin. He regards the earth as a wonderful space for creating his own aesthetic feeling. His works often become forward-looking conceptual buildings because of their complex structure and difficult construction. Based on the cost and the concept limitation of decision makers, it is unlikely that the three-dimensional digital model will become a reality. After all, the practicality of architecture and architecture is necessary in reality, and the beautiful and complicated appearance is based on burning money. This helplessness once made him regard the design scheme as contemporary art, and a unique "fish tank" he exhibited this time has participated in contemporary art exhibitions.
Ma's creative and forward-looking architectural concept is also controversial in the field of design. Earlier, he talked about the "conceptual design" of architecture in Zhu Qizhan Art Museum and lamented that his dream would take at least a few years to realize, so he called himself "paper architect".
The happiness of success finally came early. The spring of 2006 was brilliant and meaningful for Malay. He participated in the super-high-rise design competition in Mississauga, Canada's seventh largest city, and won the right to design a 50-story landmark apartment building.
This is the first time that China architects have won the right to design through an international open competition. His success made the international architectural community see the avant-garde design concept and strength of young architects from China, and won honor for the architectural community in China. He won the bid for the landmark building in Mississauga, Canada, and was nicknamed the "Absolute Tower" because of its rich curved shape. It can be seen from this building that he was influenced by the architectural style of his teacher Zahahad. There is obvious influence of China culture in the horse bones, and the design concept of integrating with the environment is the product of China's philosophy of "harmony between man and nature". [File system: page]
The value of a horse lies in his respect for tradition rather than sticking to it. For the traditional square quadrangles in China, his idea is a bit unorthodox: he thinks that the existence of quadrangles is caused by the lack of public space, and every quadrangle, like a prison, strongly allows everyone to live in quadrangles. In his dream, the lines of buildings are flexible and round.
"As long as there is no conflict of principles, we can compromise."
In Ma's narrative, we can see the compromise between ideal and reality. He once said that the conceptual design of the architectural world is restricted by all parties, and the misunderstanding of the architectural concept seems somewhat helpless. For example, the overall design of Shanghai Zhangjiang Software Park, which won the bid by his firm, was called "Double Dragon Play Pearl" by the builders, but his design concept took into account the harmony between man and nature without strong domineering.
When the whole world is paying attention to energy consumption and environmental impact, our major cities are still fiercely competing for height. In his design, there is a conceptual design scheme that has to be mentioned. In order to oppose the comparison psychology of impetuous landmark buildings in Asia, his conceptual plan is called Pearl River New Town 800 meters. In fact, it subverts the concept of height with two buildings that run through each other for 400 meters and 400 meters above and below. This kind of banter made us see his childlike and lovely side.
As a man born in the 1970s, his idealism and realistic compromise are quite unified. When asked if the difference between the physical object and the scheme is more than 30% due to the change of the design scheme or strong management of the government after winning the bid, is the architect willing to sign? Ma replied: as long as there is no conflict of principles, we can compromise. The value lies in the completion of the real building rather than the three-dimensional model in the computer.
He took out three pictures, 19 18 (the red building of Peking University, designed by Belgians), 1958 (the building of China Art Museum) and 2008 (the expansion of China Art Museum was completed), to show that political orientation and political aesthetics played a key role in large-scale buildings.
Beijing Dongsi North Street 107 is the place where architects gather. Most of them were born in the fifties and sixties of last century, and they have a high reputation in the field of architecture. Ma's MAD (meaning "crazy") studio is located at No.7 Banqiao South Lane, just opposite it. The sunset in the winter afternoon projected the roof onto the window of the opposite building. The horse sitting by the window looked out of the window and answered the reporter's last question.
You grew up in Beijing and studied under the famous architect Zaha Hadid. As an architect who studied in China and the West, how did you understand and apply the China tradition in the design process?
Ma Yan Song said, "I like history and China tradition. However, I hope that architects and intellectuals in China, and even those who make money from China's traditional culture, can understand one thing-China's tradition should actually refer to China's creativity, and their core is innovation. In the traditional culture of China, there are many examples showing people's desire for new technology and new creation. I think this desire for innovation is a tradition in China. I never look for answers from some traditional form. "
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