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佟麟阁路位于北京市西城区南面，介于长安街与宣武门西街之间。我们的新办公室位于路的西侧。在转型之前，它曾经是北京电视技术学院，这是一座80年代典型的带有庭院的办公楼。

Tong Linge Road is located south of Beijing Xicheng District, between Chang'an Street and the Xuanwumen West Street. Our new office sits on the west side of the road. Before transformation it once was the Beijing Institute of TV Technology, a typical 1980’s office building with a courtyard.

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Mochen Architects & Engineers found that construction along the Tong Linge Road is extremely diverse: both sides of the road are large tracts of courtyard houses that have been converted or added by the locals are in derelict condition and facing demolition; among the houses there are also multi-storey residential buildings built during the sixties and seventies, high-rise residential apartments built in the late nineties, a large government agency (Xinhua News Agency), a church with Chinese and Western elements, and even a vegetable market having its walls decorated with Roman columns.

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正如中国许多不断建设的地区一样，这些建筑在不同的时期和不同的风格被夹在两条主要的城市道路之间，跟随着旧城市结构的增长。看似杂乱无章、不相干的发展呈现出一种奇妙的秩序，这种秩序已为当地人所接受，并成为他们生活中不可或缺的一部分，因为他们的形成和成长符合现代社会文化背景，同时也是各方面因素在这段时间内共同作用的结果。就像几千年前由个体无序行为形成的聚落一样，这种不断变化和可持续的发展形成了新时代的聚落类型，并注定成为几千年后代研究的历史。新建筑层出不穷，新秩序不断建立，因此，人们不应以谦逊的态度面对未来的建筑，而应以谦逊的态度面对未来的建筑，而不应高喊“伊莱克特拉情结”(Electra Complex)中的“守旧”等不相干的口号。

Just as many parts of China which are constantly in construction, these buildings built in different periods and different styles caught between the two major city roads follow the growth of the old urban fabric. Seemingly chaotic and irrelevant development grew to display a wonderful order which has been accepted by the locals and become an integral part of their lives, as their formation and growth are in line with modern social and cultural background, and also result of various factors working together during the period of time. Like those settlements formed by individual unorganized behaviors thousands of years ago, this constant changing and sustainable development has formed a type of settlement in the new era, and destined to become history studied by the future generations after thousands of years. New construction happens on a daily basis and new order is established constantly, so in stead of chanting irrelevant slogans such as preserving old as old by those people suffering from Electra Complex, one should face the future architecture like an architect with modest attitude.

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面对这样一个具有具体而又普遍适用背景的改造项目，莫陈建筑师

Faced with such a renovation project with specific but also generally applicable background, Mochen Architects & Engineers wish to sustain the order that has formed in the area, not to destroy original diverse street spatial forms, tolerate every fragment, treat them as sections of history, as opposed to conducting so-called selective repair. New building is still quietly sitting a distance from the street; a courtyard separates the office from the urban space; original entrance mass is retained while simple treatments are used to enhance the sense of entering a place. The architects believe this truly embodies their objective to show respect for history. Specific to the building program, the architects' inspiration and techniques are derived from pursuit of Chinese traditional culture, as re-establishment of culture and tradition awareness is the premise to avoid extinction of diversity.

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在现代语境中，文化意识和传统意识要求创造性思维，它不可能通过遵循固有的形式而存在，而是符合当代和未来的审美特征。有了新的形式，传统文化就会恢复活力，就像蝴蝶从茧里出来一样。

In modern context, awareness of culture and tradition requires creative thinking; it can not exist by following inherent form, but conforming contemporary and future aesthetic features. With new form, traditional culture may revitalize, just as a butterfly emerges from its cocoon.

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在此基础上，莫陈建筑师

Based on these, Mochen Architects & Engineers strengthen visual artistic expression with contemporary minimalist style in the building process, and try to use abstract forms as metaphor for traditional culture, in order to avoid plainness and weakness caused by simple symbolic fragments. Water, bamboo, mountain, courtyard and so on, these things conveyed at the spiritual level closely related to traditional Chinese cultural conceptions are what we are pursuing and trying to create. Strolling inside and outside, culture is to be passed down and remain prosperous through the process of experiencing the building top-down.