架构师提供的文本描述。表面上似乎没有什么改变。水塔看上去像是1895年建造的。但如果你走进那座圆形的大砖楼，你就会体验到一座巨大的白色雕塑，它会吸引你进入另一个世界，那就是冥想。

Text description provided by the architects. On the outside nothing seems to have changed. The Water tower looks like it has been built in 1895. But if you enter the big round brick building you experience an enormous white sculpture; it stares at you inviting you into another world, that of meditation.

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罗查·汤巴尔建筑师的礼遇

在狭小的纪念性水塔的设计中，为新功能而设计的m2和内部引入的消防通道构成了设计的任务，对纪念性空间的可读性和尊重成为最大的挑战和最可怕的品质。

In the design for the narrow monumental water tower, where the creation of m2 for the new functions and the internal introduction of a fire escape forms the assignment, the legibility and respect for the monumental spaces become the biggest challenge and it’s most formidable quality.

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罗查·汤巴尔建筑师的礼遇

关键的起点是把所有的设施和封闭的楼梯结合起来，把这作为一个巨大的家具在中间空间作为主要的结构元素。

The crucial starting-point has been the combination of all facilities with the closed staircase and the situation of this as a huge piece of furniture in the middle of the space as main structuring element.

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罗查·汤巴尔建筑师的礼遇

形成冥想迷宫向上攀登的楼梯，形成了新功能的表达，创造了一条提供不同体验和触发不同情感的路线。同时，它把你带到了塔的高潮：钢制的储罐，里面放着自助餐厅。新的引进形式与现有的形式形成了强烈的对比。楼梯以其紧密的几何图形和闪闪发光的白色饰面为指导，注意砖瓦的硬度。

The staircase which forms a meditative labyrinth climbing upwards forms the expression of the new functions and creates a route which offers varied experiences and triggers different emotions. At the same time it brings you to the climax of the tower: the steel tank where a cafeteria is placed. The new introduced form contrasts strongly with the existing. The staircase directs by its tight geometry and the gleaming white finishing, the attention to the hardness of the brickwork.

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空间体验中最重要的要素是光的使用。通过新旧墙壁之间的“光环”；地板上的铅点，就像小星星一样，将你带入另一个维度或间接闪电，每个空间都会得到另一种颜色的细微差别和明显的环境。令人兴奋的是，在楼梯的情况下，亲密的在冥想室，平静的在水箱中。

The most important ingredient for the experience of the space is the use of light. By “rings of light” between old and new walls; led spots in the floors which, like little stars, seem to bring you into another dimension or indirect lightening, each space gets another color nuance and pronounced environment. Exciting in the stair case, intimate in the meditation rooms, serene in the water tank.

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罗查·汤巴尔建筑师的礼遇