位于北京的研究设计工作室Meta-Project最近在中国沈阳完成了万科的翻修工程，以精湛的方式为这座破旧的水塔注入了新的生命。

META-Project, a Beijing based research-design studio has recently completed a renovation for VANKE in Shenyang, China that infused new life into the dilapidated water tower in an exquisite manner.

这座水塔位于一座破旧的军工厂的校园里，该厂前身是人民解放军1102工厂，建于1959年大跃进时期。沈阳市铁西区曾经是中国最重要的重工业生产基地之一，现在到处都是当时的各种工业遗迹。分散在城市周围的水塔已经成为这一地区工业化历史的独特象征，成为该地区不断变化的现实中的视觉锚点。这座水塔周围的改造始于2010年。中国万科(Vanke)收购了这家军工厂的园区，将其改造成所谓的蓝山住宅综合体项目。随着周边城市的决定性建设，水塔仍然保存完好-部分原因是为了提醒人们对工业化历史的支离破碎的记忆，同时也是对未来意外的公众使用的预测。

This water tower is located in the campus of a run down military factory, formerly known as the People's Liberation Army No.1102 Factory, founded in 1959 during the Great Leap Forward. Formerly one of the most important heavy industrial production bases of China, the Tiexi District in Shenyang is now full of miscellaneous industrial relics from that time period. Water towers scattered around the city have become unique symbols of the history of industrialization in this area and the visual anchor points in the ever-shifting reality of this region. The transformation around this particular water tower began starting in 2010. VANKE, China acquired the campus of this military factory, converting it into what is called the Blue Mountains residential complex project. Along with the decisive construction of the surrounding cities, the water tower has remained well preserved – functioning partially as a reminder of the fragmented memory of the history of industrialization, as well as serving as a projection of unexpected public use in the future.

对于元项目，水塔，被重新解释为一种“公共福利”，提供了深思熟虑的线索。“Folly”是一种高度模棱两可的构造对象，它要么从外观上暗示其他目的，要么非常古怪，以致于超越了它所属的普通用法。愚蠢的定义“在于旁观者的眼睛”，它只有在其物理和历史背景下的精确定位中才有意义。水塔就位于这样的环境中：在空间上-它位于继承的工业结构与即将到来的住宅综合体之间；在时间上-它坐在分界线上，将铁溪偏离了工业的过去，并正在加速走向另一个未来。

For META-Project, the water tower, which is re-interpreted as a type of “Public Folly”, has provided deliberate clues. A “Folly” is a highly ambiguous built object that either suggests by its appearance some other purpose or is so eccentric that it transcends the common usage to which it belongs. The definition of a folly "lies in the eyes of the beholder", and it only makes sense in the precise positioning within its physical and historical context. The water tower is situated in such context: spatially - it is situated on the edge in-between the inherited industrial fabric and an upcoming residential complex development; temporally - it is sitting on the dividing line which separates where Tiexi has deviated from the industrial past and where it is accelerating towards an alternative future.

从这一背景下的精确定位出发，Meta-Project开始沿着这个时空连续体展开更新的概念，而不是把它当作一个孤立的事件。改造后的水塔馆，或称“公益亭”，在外部形成了对城市景观的艺术干预，内部为周边社区的公共活动提供了空间。即使超越了日常使用，它的功能也几乎是一种自适应装置，能够从两个被移除的侧面重新创建连接，比如传输，或铰链…。

Setting off from the precise positioning within this context, META-Project started to unfold the concept of the renovation along this space time continuum as opposed to taking it as an isolated event. The renovated water tower pavilion, or the “Public Folly”, on the outside forms an artistic intervention in the urban landscape, and on the inside it offers a space for public activities for the surrounding communities. Even transcending mundane usage, it functions almost as an adaptive device, able to re-create linkages from two removed sides – like a transmission, or a hinge…

虽然记忆是一个地方不可磨灭的属性，就像最残缺的地方一样，但从城市的整体理解中，刮掉的原始文字并不会完全消失。这也将有助于对散布在工业城市沈阳周围的其他数十座水塔进行重新解读。每天晚上，随着重水塔逐渐消失成黑暗，明亮的灯箱将成为漂浮在空中的明显信号，象征着寻找历史和建筑原型中隐藏的角落。从那里，水塔把历史和现实的对立理解成一个完全中立的空间-它变成了外部世界、耳朵或取景器的一个简单的感官装置…通过水塔的翻新，Meta-Project又提出了一个关于如何看待历史和如何理解不断变化的现实的问题。

While memory is the ineffaceable attribute of a place, like the palimpsest, the original text scraped off will not completely disappear in the overall comprehension of the city. This will also lend to a re-interpretation of the other dozens of preserved water towers scattered around the industrial city of Shenyang. Every night, as the heavy water tower gradually fades into darkness, the bright light boxes will become distinct signals floating in the air symbolizing a quest to seek out the hidden corner of the history and archetypes of architecture. From there, the water tower digests the opposition of history and reality into a completely neutral space – it becomes a simple sensory device of the external world, an ear, or a viewfinder...Through renovation of the water tower, META-Project posts the question again on how to look at the history and how to understand the changing reality?

 Elevation and Plans

海拔和平面图