架构师提供的文本描述。SoHo犹太教堂是社区历史上第一个犹太教会堂，代表了一个全新的愿景，将犹太教的灵感转化为新的一代。拉比·多维·谢纳(Rabbi Dovi Scheiner)和他的妻子、SoHo犹太教堂的创始人拉比·多维·谢纳(Rabbi Dovi Scheiner)以一种前瞻性的思维方式，建立了一个宗教平台，邀请考虑到曼哈顿下城犹太人的开放心态，SoHo犹太教堂寻求将犹太教堂改造成一个舒适和愉快的环境，以促进个人成长和社区联系。

Text description provided by the architects. The SoHo Synagogue is the community’s first ever synagogue and represents a fresh vision that translates the inspiration of Judaism to a new generation. With a forward thinking approach, Rabbi Dovi Scheiner along with his wife Esty, founders of SoHo Synagogue,built a religious platform that invites the community to fully integrate their religion within their modern lifestyle. Mindful of the open mindset of lower Manhattan's Jewish population, The SoHo Synagogue seeks to reinvent the synagogue as a comfortable and enjoyable setting for personal growth and communal connection.

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当我们收到邀请和任务时，我们感到谦卑和荣幸，创造了一个空间，使犹太教堂能够在当代休闲的设计环境中接受传统和它的基本功能。6月12日星期日，一长队身着白色衣服的支持者和集会者一起走在附近剪彩，打开通往他们新犹太教堂的大门。犹太教堂将同时举行社交聚会和宗教仪式。

We were humbled and honored when receiving the invitation and assignment to create a space in which the synagogue can embrace the traditions and its fundamental function within a contemporary, casual design setting. On Sunday June 12, a long and festive procession of supporters and congregants dressed in white walked the neighborhood together to cut the ribbon and open the door to their new synagogue. The synagogue will hold both social gatherings and religious services.

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通过对空间和设计细节的整体艺术指导，Dror具有双重意义。这个曾经是时装店的地方有条纹的窗户，保留了新的祈祷之家的隐私。这些条纹让人想起男人用来祈祷的最高披肩的线条，以及条形码的形象。

Dror plays with dual meanings through the overall artistic direction of the space and design details. The striped window of the place that once used to be a fashion boutique keeps the privacy of the new house of prayer. The stripes evoke both the lines of the tallit shawl that men wear for praying, as well as the image of a bar code.

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会众进入一个狭长的接待区，有一个雕塑接待台，由两只白色和实心的QuaDror脚组成，与透明的玻璃顶上形成鲜明对比。在标志性作品的对面是一个墙上的装置，出现在不同颜色的蓝色的砖块上，并以允许犹太教堂出现的捐献者的名字为特征。天花板上的一道线有助于缩小通向祈祷室的走廊的透视图。天花板设计再次传达了一种意义的二重性，将传统与现代美学并驾齐驱；安装好的灯泡和在天花板上画出的黑色线条可能就像一个月经台或地铁地图上的现代网格。

The congregant enters a long narrowing reception area with a sculptural reception desk that consists of two white and solid QuaDror feet contrasting with a transparent glass top. Across the signature piece is a wall installation with appearing bricks painted in different shades of blue and featuring the names of the donors who allowed the synagogue to be. Converging lines on the ceiling contribute to the narrowing perspective of the corridor leading the path to the prayers room. The ceiling design conveys again a duality of meaning, juxtaposing traditions with modern aesthetic; the fitted light bulbs and the dark lines drawn on the ceiling can resemble of a menorah or the modern grid of a subway map.

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经过走廊，游客来到了一座钢制和玻璃楼梯井的顶端，打开了视野和通往圆滑、低水平圣所的小路。立即引人注目的是托拉弧在中心，它的不寻常的圆形组成的重叠的圆圈，滑动打开和关闭，其中每一个持有一个三角形，形成大卫的恒星时，滑动关闭在另一个之上。时装设计师伊加尔·阿杜鲁尔选择并包裹在“托拉弧”上的布料。这种对宗教元素的解释使多罗对我们生活环境中的物体的变化和运动有着一贯的敏感性。在祈祷室，Dror决定把管道暴露在外面，使砖墙更加突出。他使用在墙壁基础中发现的7个对齐的砖块，在空间上创作一幅壁画，代表着一个烛台。其意图是拥抱和整合历史和建筑外壳的性质，它将承载宗教空间。Dror结合了优雅的设计元素，如他的标志性作品，孔雀椅，与原始的，工业的感觉，圣所的房间。

Passed the corridor, the visitor arrives at the top of a steel-and-glass stairwell opening the view and the path to the sleek, under-leveled sanctuary. Immediately noticeable is the Torah arc in the center with its unusual round shape made of overlapping circles that slide open and close, each of which holds one of the triangles that form the star of David when slide-closed on top of one another. Fashion designer Yigal Azrouel selected and wrapped the fabric on the Torah arc. This interpretation of the religious element conducts Dror's consistent sensitivity for transformation and motion in objects of our living environments. In the prayers room, Dror decided to leave pipes exposed and accentuate the brick walls. He uses 7 aligned brick-squares found within the wall foundation when working on the space to create a fresco representing a menorah. The intention was to embrace and integrate the history and the nature of the architecture shell that was going to host the religious space. Dror combined elegant design elements such as his iconic piece, the Peacock chair, with the raw, industrial feel of the sanctuary room.

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墙上的艺术作品由一系列的嵌板组成，会众可以不把它们挂起来，折成椅子或咖啡桌。这位设计艺术家用舒适的米色低矮沙发解释了他自己对祈祷长椅的看法。和平的圣殿氛围，传统上是由彩色玻璃窗的灯光营造的，这里是由单一复古风格的爱迪生灯泡创造的。圆形书柜在酒杯旁边存放祈祷书。“我打算让SoHo犹太教堂成为一个鼓舞人心的、有创意的庇护所，为宗教传统注入新的光芒，”Dror说。

Art pieces on the wall consist of a series of panels, which the congregant can un-hang and fold into chairs or coffee tables. The design artist interpreted his own idea of the prayer benches with comfortable beige low-couches. The peaceful sanctuary atmosphere, traditionally created by the light of the stained-glass windows, is here created with single retro-style Edison bulbs. Circular bookcases store prayer books alongside wineglasses. "I intended for the SoHo Synagogue to be an inspiring, creative shelter to bring a new light onto the religious traditions," says Dror.

 ©  John Hall

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