建筑师的。

From the architect.

本次儿童工作坊由Natur有机生活组织，36名儿童和他们的父母参加了为期3个月的周末工作坊。

This kids’ workshop is organized by Natur Organic Life, 36 children and their parents participated in the 3-month workshop at weekend.

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李晓

“天空中的城市”是一个实验项目。换句话说，当我们30岁的时候，我们试图用这样的项目来探索建筑的边界。

“City In Sky” is an experimental project. In other words, we’re trying to use such kind of project to explore the boundary of architecture, when we are 30 years old.

把“天空中的城市”定义为一所房子或一座建筑物是值得怀疑的。因为我把它看作是一个属于儿童的城市，也很难分辨由某个建筑师设计的“天空中的城市”，因为39名儿童，“儿童建筑师”通过素描和造型在他们的脑海中展示了这一设计；我甚至不愿意把它看作是一种完全的人造。由于竹子是结构的一部分，这使得漂浮的城市得以成长。

It’s dubious to define “City In Sky” as a house or building. Because I regard it as a city belongs to children; it’s also hard to tell “City In Sky” designed by a certain architect, because 39 children, the “kid-architects” demonstrated the design in their minds by sketching and modeling; I’m even not willing to see it as a complete artificiality. Due to the alive bamboo as part of the structure, that makes it possible to allow the floating city to grow.

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当我还是个孩子的时候，当我第一次站在竹林里的时候，我开始想象如果有一个看不见的城市漂浮在竹子里。因此，“天空中的城市”为我们提供了建筑的潜在可能性：

When I was a child, the first time I was standing in the bamboo forest, I began to imagine if there would be an invisible city floating among the bamboo. So “City In Sky” provides us with the potential possibilities of architecture:

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材料和结构：活着的竹子能成为结构的一部分吗？

1 Materials and Structures: Can alive bamboo be part of the structure?

谁能设计：幼儿是否具备描述建筑空间并使之成为现实的能力？

2 Who can design: Do young children possess the ability to describe the architectural space and make it real?

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3建筑方法：一座建筑物能靠种植来建造吗？结构元素是否足够轻，可以让孩子们参加现场工作？

3The way of Construction: Can a building be built by planting? Are the structure elements light enough to allow children to join on-site work?

4建筑与自然的关系：建筑是否意味着物质创造？或者它可以是另一种通过操作自然来实现物质性的途径？

4 Relationship between Architecture and Nature: Does architecture mean physical creation？Or it can be another approach of materiality by operating nature？

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竹子是一种令人惊奇的结构材料。我们移植活竹，建造两座竹房，标准为300万*300万*8米。竹房由横向构件连接和固定，作为儿童的露天平台和游戏室，也是整个建筑景观的一部分。

Bamboo is an amazing material for structure. We transplant alive bamboo to make two bamboo houses by 3m*3m*8m standards. Jointed and fixed by transverse components, as open-air terraces and playroom for children, the bamboo houses are also part of the whole architectural landscape.

我们采用天然竹子作为“空中城市”的承载结构。按照3米×3米的标准，该建筑分为8个竹结构单元。我们仅使用3个㎡地基面积就可以创建90㎡地板。倒金字塔的形状使房屋看起来漂浮在空中。两个“种植”建筑可以看作是向上城市的空间原型。每个孩子都可以在自己的房子里工作。竹屋的聚集使其成为城市空间的邻里形态。

We use natural bamboo as bear loading structure of “City In Sky”. The building is separated into 8 bamboo structural units by 3m*3m standards. We create 90㎡ floorage by using only 3㎡ foundation area. The inverted pyramid form makes the houses seem floating in the air. Two “planted” building can be regarded as space prototype of upward cities. Every kid could work on their own house. And the gathering of bamboo houses make it a urban spatial form of neighborhood.

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2012年，全球60%的混凝土产量来自中国，世界上消耗了42%的铝材。越来越少的建筑师知道如何建造，除了使用混凝土和钢结构。语文应试教育使儿童的童年被课外训练所占据。“天空中的城市”以建筑为主题，让孩子们参与建造与自然融为一体的房子，使孩子们更生动地了解自然、工具、建筑，甚至真实的生活本身。

In 2012, 60% global concrete production was contributed by in China, which consumed 42% aluminum material in the world. Fewer and fewer architects know how to build besides using concrete and steel structure. Chinese exam-oriented education makes children’s childhood occupied by extra-curricular training. Based on the theme of architecture, by allowing children taking part to build the house blending with nature, “City In Sky” makes it more vivid to help children understand the nature, tools, building and even the real life itself.

我想引用意大利卡尔维诺的话来表达我对这个研讨会的感受：

I’d like to quote Italo Calvino to express my feeling about this workshop:

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城市和天空3。

Cities and the Sky 3.

到达Thekla的人除了木板栅栏、麻布屏风、脚手架、金属电枢、挂在绳索上或由锯木支撑的木制T台、梯子、树架外，几乎看不到城市的其他地方。如果你问“为什么Thekla的建设要花这么长时间？”居民们继续吊袋，放下铅绳，上下移动长刷子，因为他们回答说：“这样破坏就不会开始了。”如果被问到他们是否担心，一旦脚手架被拆除，这个城市可能会开始崩溃和崩溃，他们轻声补充道：“不仅仅是城市。”

Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask "Why is Thekla's construction taking such a long time?" the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer "So that it's destruction cannot begin." And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, "Not only the city."

如果对答案不满意，有人盯着篱笆上的裂缝，他看到起重机拉起其他起重机，脚手架拥抱其他脚手架，梁支撑其他梁。“你的建筑有什么意义？”他问。“除非是一座城市，否则正在建设中的城市的目标是什么？你所遵循的计划，蓝图在哪里？”

If, dissatisfied with the answers, someone puts his eye to a crack in a fence, he sees cranes pulling up other cranes, scaffoldings that embrace other scaffoldings, beams that prop up other beams. "What meaning does your construction have?" he asks. "What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?"

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他们回答说：“工作一结束，我们就给你看，我们现在不能打断我们的工作。”

"We will show it to you as soon as the working day is over; we cannot interrupt our work now," they answer.

工作在日落时停止。黑暗笼罩着建筑工地。天空布满了星星。“这就是蓝图，”他们说。

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

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最近，我给陈峰发了一条来自自然有机生活的短信：有人在维护房子吗？你给房子浇水了吗？

One message I texted to Chenfeng from Natur Organic Life recently: someone maintaining the house? Did you water the house?

“你给房子浇水了吗？”

“Did you water the house? ”

这可能是描述项目的最佳方式。

This might be the best way to describe the project.