María García Holley，Domus：A47移动图书馆是一个由基金会开发的项目，该基金会是一个民间社会组织，将学习社区聚集在当代艺术实践和视觉文化方面。鉴于该基金会的主要项目是在2014年左右建造一座公共当代艺术博物馆，因此，似乎有理由使用一个移动单元来激活博物馆现有的藏品，直到该建筑建成。设计这个单位变成了一个真正的挑战。你如何把与建筑如此对立的东西当作一辆卡车，把它不仅仅变成一个图书馆，而是一个能够容纳整个文化活动的结构？从这个角度看，建立图书馆的陈旧观念开始重新获得一种现代性的感觉。在此前提下，墨西哥建筑工作室Productora设计了一个文化中心，该中心占地20平方米，搭载了一辆货轮M2 20K货车-一座旅游大楼。

Text by María García Holley, Domus: The A47 Mobile Library is a project developed by the Fundación Alumnos47, a civil society organisation that brings learning communities together around contemporary artistic practices and visual culture. Given that the foundation’s major project is to build a public contemporary art museum by around 2014, it seemed reasonable to use a mobile unit to activate the museum’s existing collection until the building to house it is completed. Designing this unit turned into a veritable challenge. How do you take something so opposite to a piece of architecture as a lorry and turn it into not just a library, but a structure capable of hosting an entire spectrum of cultural activities? Looked at in this way, the archaic idea of building libraries started to regain a sense of modernity. Working on this premise, Mexican architecture studio PRODUCTORA came up with the design for a cultural centre within a 20 square metres space on board a Freightliner M2 20K lorry — a travelling building.

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这辆卡车主要是作为一个巡回收藏当代艺术书籍。然而，除了这一用途外，其20平方米的表面积每厘米都能最大限度地发挥作用，以实现空间的真正功能。书架已经离开了传统的形式，取而代之的是漂浮在图书馆用户上方的可拆卸托盘，在视觉上为室内空间加冕。自由计划成为一个灵活、透明的平台，与城市和社会环境直接相关。“罗瑞”是一个论坛，可以用作无数活动的场所：书籍介绍、电影俱乐部、诗歌朗诵、讲习班，以及查阅其书目藏品的机会。

The lorry operates primarily as an itinerant collection of contemporary art books. However, beyond this use, every centimetre of its 20 square metre surface area is harnessed to maximum effect to achieve true functionality of space. The bookshelves have left their traditional form behind, instead being dismantlable trays floating above the library users, visually crowning the interior space. The free plan becomes a flexible, transparent platform that relates directly with the urban and social context. The lorry is a forum that can be used as a venue for an endless number of activities: book presentations, film clubs, poetry readings, workshops, as well as the opportunity to consult its bibliographic holdings.

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路易斯·加拉多(Luis Gallardo)

卡车的地板由一系列的移动平台组成，可以进入书架，可以根据不同的活动重新安排空间。微穿孔板包围作为一种渗透膜，融合内外，使空间与其环境诚实的练习。从街道上看，一个人看到的透明的复杂，暂停了庞大的坚实的体积，可以一瞥范围的不同的标题，同时也充当了城市的灯塔贯穿整个夜晚。这种照明-由卡车自己的综合发电机生产-在街道昏暗时提供了一种令人放心的光芒，并宣布了其夜间节目的开始。正是通过这种对新目的追求，用户才能体验到图书馆意味着什么的观念的改变。A47移动图书馆绝不是一个惰性的档案馆，它是一个活生生的有机体，它能使想象力转变为集体记忆的新方法。这是一辆卡车，它利用城市中存在的任何变化来创造它的舞台。一种机械的昆虫，当夜幕降临时，它可以折起腿，把故事收起来，然后继续它的旅程。

The floor of the lorry comprises a series of mobile platforms giving access to the bookshelves, allowing the space to be re-arranged according to the different activities taking place. The micro perforated sheet surround acts as a permeable membrane that merges the outside and inside, making the space an exercise in honesty with its environment. From the street, one’s view of the transparent intricacy that suspends the large solid volume allows a glimpse of the diverse range of titles inside, while also acting as an urban beacon through the night. This illumination — produced by the lorry’s own integrated electricity generator — provides a reassuring glow when the streets fall dark, and announces the start of its nightly programme. It is through this quest for new purposes that users experience the change in the idea of what a library means. Far from being an inert archive, the A47 mobile library is a living organism enabling new approaches that turn imagination into a collective memory. This is a lorry that uses whatever changes exist in the city to create its stage. A mechanical insect that, when night falls, can fold away its legs, stow away its stories and continue with its journey.