关于城市的思考：AIDAH 艺术装置

项目Aidah是对一个城市化进程的挑衅性表述，是中东历史的一部分转化为建筑形式的图解。最重要的是，Aidah是一个梦想、一个建议、一个非物质的城市财富。项目旨在研究是什么让一个城市成为一个城市的，我们的目的，是利用一个临时的装置，积极地促进关于中东大都市未来发展的辩论，而不是作为一个自我的表达。

Aidah is a provocative representation of a process, a diagrammatic illustration of a portion of Middle Eastern history translated into architectural forms. Most of all, Aidah is a dream, a suggestion, an immaterial city that aims to investigate what makes a city a city. Our intention, is to use a temporary installation not as a self-referenced narcissistic display, but as a device that positively contributes to a debate about the future development of the Middle Eastern Metropolis.

在阿拉伯文化中，Aidah的意思是"归来的人"。我们选择这个名字是为了建立一个时空的城市，在这里，回归的周期性想法是存在的，也是值得庆祝的。我们想通过一种象征性的方式，强调迪拜和整个地区的未来不能依赖于暂时的现状。

In Arabic culture Aidah means “one’s who returns”. We chose this name to build an a-temporal city where the cyclical idea of returning was present and celebrated. In a symbolic way, we want to highlight how the future of Dubai and the whole region cannot rely on temporary present conditions.

怀着尊重和谦卑的敬意，该项目向Italo Calvino的"隐形城市"致敬，为这本名著想象了一个额外的章节。这一次，皇帝向马可波罗讲述了迪拜的故事，语言可以是解放的，它们可以探索概念而不需要任何现实的要求。通过创造它的故事来开始这个项目，让我们专注于概念，非常重视核心思想，然后我们将其转化为真实的空间关系和建筑形式。

With respect and humble admiration, the project homages Italo Calvino “Invisible cities” imagining an additional chapter to the famous book. This time, the emperor narrates the story of Dubai to Marco Polo. Words can be liberating, they can explore the concepts without any demand for reality. Starting the project by creating its story, allowed us to focus on the concept, giving great importance to the core idea that we then transformed into real spatial relationships and architectural forms.

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我们非常喜欢颠覆通常的建筑与绘画的关系。通过先写一个故事，然后再创造一个关于故事的建筑，我们把建筑作为一种工具，作为一种立体的表现形式，作为一种表达叙事的媒介，这使得概念保留了它强大的作用。

We really enjoyed turning the usual architecture-illustration relationship upside-down. By writing a story first and then creating an architecture about it we used architecture as a tool, as a form of three-dimensional representation, as a medium to express a narrative, which allowed the concept to retain its powerful role.

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这个装置由50个黑色气球、500米长的黑色绳索和50块泡沫砖组成。这些元素组合在一起，产生了一个属于沙漠并与沙漠对话的漂浮景观，沙漠是万物的起源。这些脆弱的结构唤起了一种短暂的脆弱感，同时也体现了项目大胆而独特的个性。

The installation is made of 50 black balloons, 500m of black ropes and 50 foam bricks. These elements are combined together generating a floating landscape that belongs to and is in dialogue with the desert, the origin of everything. These flimsy structures evoke a sense of transient fragility and at the same time inform Aidah’s bold and distinctive character.

这些漂浮的球体是城市的基础元素（参考迪拜的石油），但同时也是它的致命弱点。就像石油这一有限资源所创造的财富泡沫一样，城市可能会破灭或漂浮，它需要压舱石将其牢牢固定在地面上。中东地区的经济稳定是由其外国投资所赋予的，在这里，我们特别为这个装置制作了黑色泡沫 ，称之为"伦敦砖"。

The floating spheres are the foundational element of the city (ref. Dubai’s oil), but at the same time its Achilles heel. Much like the bubble of wealth created by the finite resource of oil, the city might burst or float away and it needs ballasts to anchor it firmly on the ground. The economic stability of the Middle east is granted by its foreign investments, which are here represented with black foam “London Bricks” we especially crafted for this installation.

通过在沙漠中的建筑，Aidah也旨在质疑"土地价值"的概念。该装置表明，从房地产的角度来看，被占用的平方米可能没有任何"土地价值"，但它们却产生了一个迷人的空间，为这片荒芜的土地增添了质的、象征性的和艺术性的价值。

By building in the desert, Aidah also aims to question the idea of “land value”. The installation shows that the occupied square meters might have zero “land value” from a real estate point of view, but they generate a fascinating space, adding a qualitative, symbolic and artistic value to the deserted land.

Project name: AIDAH

Company name: Boano Prismontas + Ricardas Blazukas

Website: www.boanoprismontas.com

Contact e-mail: hello@boanoprismontas.com

Project location: Dubai Completion

Year: 2017

Building area (m2): 300

Other participants: Alessandro Ripane, Maria Eugenia Beizo, Eimis Prišmontas

Photo credits: Boano Prismontas