Mill Mavaleix Piet Hein Eek

2015-05-07 04:00

架构师提供的文本描述。我相信我们已经有10年没有在多尔多涅建造我们的度假屋了。当时，我以为我们很快就能完成。这与事实相去甚远：建筑工程、法规、条件、距离、商业发展(包括我们在Eindhoven的一栋大楼)以及人类环境最终都产生了影响。回顾过去，制作一部关于整件事的有品位的纪录片可能会更容易，这可能会吸引一大群忠实的观众。我们绝对掌握了电视剧的所有元素。奇迹般地，我们似乎活了下来。不是因为知识、天意或其他值得称道的品质，而是靠纯粹的运气、耐心和建立在梦想上的喜悦。

Text description provided by the architects. I believe it’s been 10 years since we started building our holiday homes in the Dordogne. Back then, I thought we’d be finished in a jiffy. This couldn’t be further from the truth: the construction work, regulations, conditions, distance, business developments (including a building for us in Eindhoven in the meantime) and human circumstances all ended up having an influence. Looking back, it would’ve been easier to have made a tasteful documentary about the whole thing, which would probably have attracted a whole flock of loyal viewers. We definitely had all the ingredients of a TV drama. Miraculously, we appear to have survived in one piece. Not due to knowledge, providence or other commendable qualities, mind you, but through sheer luck, patience and the joy of building on a dream.

 © Thomas Mayer

(Thomas Mayer)

我一直拿着一支废墟火炬，这几乎是我从孩提时代开始追求的唯一种所有权。我认为这是因为废墟让人联想到过去，同时也提供了重建它的可能性，因此它也包含了未来。这个地方之所以如此独特，是因为这里建的磨坊是因为河流移动水轮，岩石用来建造堤坝和墙壁，山谷用来蓄水筑坝，提供建筑用材。事实上，我一直采用的方法是一样的：使用材料、技术、手工艺品和可用的可能性，这样你就能尽可能少地浪费时间来限制条件。我们是建立在这个传统的基础上的，但在过去他们会这样做。石头，木头，混凝土，玻璃，天然石头：建筑物在自然界中。每件事都很详细，几乎每件事都是新的，没有什么特别之处，不是建筑吸引人的眼球，也不是让人思考的东西。相反，它是融合在一起的体系结构，最重要的是，它是设计用来花费时间的。

I’ve always held a torch for ruins, which are pretty much the only type of ownership I have pursued since I was a child. I think it’s because a ruin is suggestive of the past while, at the same time, offering the possibility to reconstruct it, so that it also contains the future. What makes this place so unique is that the mill was built here because of the river to move the water wheel, rocks to build the dyke and walls, valley to dam up the water and woods to provide the construction timber. In fact, it’s the same approach I always take: working with materials, techniques, handicrafts and available possibilities, so that you lose as little time as possible to limiting conditions. We’ve constructed based on that tradition, but in a way they would have done in the past. Stone, wood, concrete, glass, natural stone: the buildings are in and of nature. Everything is detailed, almost everything is new, nothing stands out, it is not architecture that catches the eye or makes one think. Instead, it’s architecture that blends in and, above all, is designed to spend time in.

 © Thomas Mayer

(Thomas Mayer)

 The Mill, Floor Plan

磨坊，平面图

 © Thomas Mayer

(Thomas Mayer)

现在那里感觉如何？每一次，我都会带着一种唠叨的想法去那里，我已经疯狂地花了这么多钱在一个地方和几所房子上，然而，每次我到那里的时候，我都会想：一切都是我应该做的。幸运的是，我并不是唯一一个感受和表达同样情感的人。事实上，这几乎是一个奇迹。第一天早上，当我在院子里喝一杯咖啡的时候，我看到一只小鹿穿过山谷里的草地。水日夜喃喃自语。大窗户让人感觉到室外和室内没有什么区别，就好像几百年来都是这样。当天气变热时，你可以在超过20米长的运河里游泳(顺便说一句，也不是很热)。植物从地面上发芽。你做饭吃饭就像你过着莱利的生活你睡得像个婴儿。因为水总是在流动，所以没有蚊子！

What’s it like to be there now? Each and every time, I go there with the nagging thought that I’ve been completely mad to invest so much in one place and a couple of houses and, yet, every time I arrive I think to myself: everything is as it should be. Fortunately, I’m not the only one who feels and expresses this same sentiment. In fact, it almost feels like a miracle. The first morning, while enjoying a cup of coffee on the patio, for instance, I saw a little roe deer walking across the grass in the valley. The water murmurs day and night. The large windows give a sense of there being no difference between outdoors and indoors, and as if it has been this way for hundreds of years. When the weather gets hot, you can swim in the more than twenty metre-long canal (also when it’s not really hot, incidentally). Plants sprout out of the ground. You cook and eat like you’re living the life of Riley and you sleep like a baby. And because the water is always flowing, there are no mosquitos!