曼彻斯特艺术学院/Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

发布于：2023-06-28 19:25:29

Manchester School of Art

设计方：Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

位置：英国

分类：教育建筑

内容：实景照片

承包人：Morgan Sindall

结构工程师：Arup

项目规模：17320平方米

图片：33张

摄影师：Hufton + Crow

FCB工作室设计的曼彻斯特艺术学院提供了一个具有吸引力的、活泼的工作环境以及学习环境。该学院的院长大卫科罗教授表示，这是一个非常令人兴奋的竞技场，在这里一切皆有可能，一切皆有关联。建筑的工作核心区布置了开放式工作室、会议室以及教学场所。一栋7层高的垂直画廊，连接了现存20世纪60年代落成的艺术大楼（即查塔姆大楼）以及新工作室大楼。这个垂直式画廊既作为展览场地展示了学院作品，亦作为橱窗展示了学校自身。
开放式的工作室营造了一种合作的、激发创造力的工作氛围，学生以及MSA当代设计领域优秀的工作人员可以在此完成紧密的项目工作。这种紧密性在一定程度上激发了思想、技术以及方法的交流。工作室同时可以将学生的作品展示在这个轻型、探索性的环境里。
建筑材料方面，采用了不同等级和质地的混凝土营造出多样的内部氛围。楼梯间采用了粗糙的混凝土板材营造出一种工厂的美学效果。中央大厅则采用了双层高度的预制混凝土石柱。通往美术馆的楼梯扶手两侧则使用了橡木衬里装饰，这样的对比设计在原本生硬、严肃的设计上增添了一份平和与柔美的质感。

建筑时间：2013
图片来源：Hufton + Crow

译者：艾比

Context: Celebrating its 175th birthday in 2013, Manchester School of Art is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the UK. The school was established in the 19th Century to help keep the region competitive in an international market and support regional industry in a wider marketplace.
Now a faculty of Manchester Metropolitan University this remains an important objective for the Art school and a key part of the brief was to help the school bridge the gap between education and professional life.
The new building celebrates the inter relation of the various art & design disciplines and encourages 21st century students to work alongside each other and enjoy the crossover rather than concentrating always on the differences. With a huge front window, it is also a building that is proud of its product and shows the work to everyone who passes by.
Now one of the leading Art & Design courses in the country, the School has around 3500 FTE students across its various disciplines. Housed within a range of late Victorian and post-war buildings, the School forms the southern edge of All Saints’ Park, a green square at the heart of the city centre campus. The Art School Extension consists of an 8600m2 new building of studios, workshops and a gallery; and a 9000m2 refurbishment of a 1960s Arts tower and plinth.
Concept: FCB’s design of the Manchester School of Art has provided an engaging and lively environment in which to work and study and helped re-assert both the art school and the university’s profile on the national stage. The Dean of the School, Professor David Crow, describes the scheme as “a hugely exciting arena where anything is possible and everything is relevant.”
The working heart of the building comprises open studios, workshops and teaching spaces (known as the Design Shed.) A second element is a seven storey ‘Vertical Gallery’. This is the linking piece between the existing 1960s arts tower (known as the Chatham Building) and the new studio building. This vertical gallery provides a showcase space for the output of the School and acts as a shop window to the school itself.
Hybrid Studio Space: The open studio space places a great focus on collaborative working in an atmosphere that is inherently creative. Students and MSA staff from a broad spectrum of contemporary design disciplines can work on projects in close communal proximity.
This proximity encourages the sharing of ideas, techniques and methodologies in a way that was previously impossible. The Hybrid Studio is also an environment in which students can proudly display their work in a setting that is light and easy to explore.
Materials: As a building for designers, and a place for teaching and learning about Art & Design the clarity and articulation of materials was crucial, as was the tonal and textural quality of the interior. The interiors are a study in concrete, with three distinct grades creating different atmospheres.
Rough is used in back stairwells giving a sense of rawness and a factory aesthetic; double height cast concrete columns articulate the central spaces of the design shed, punctuated by four very special decorative concrete columns which were developed from an early 20th century wallpaper design by Lewis F Day, an eminent designer of his period, contemporary of Walter Crane a tutor at Manchester School of Art.
A secondary but important material is the use of oak linings to the stairs and linking corridors which span the vertical gallery. These provide a warmth to soften the hard edges of steel and concrete which form the structure.
Collaboration: Working with clients who are artists and designers on a building for training artists & designers was a wonderfully rich experience for us. The level of collaboration was exceptionally high and we worked with the client by testing processes, recrafting ideas and always seeing the design as an iterative, creative process.