Filter装置专为凉亭设计展（Design Pavilion）和纽约设计节（NYCxDesign Festival）打造，在时代广场喧嚣的氛围中构筑宜人的空间。这座凉亭装置既是一个纪念物，也是一种短暂的体验，它在纽约市中心的城市肌理中建立起新的节点——将城市体验重新定义为自然的，而非人造的。Filter装置源于怀俄明州，它使人想起那里的崎岖景观，吸引游客走进由耐候钢和木材构成的流动褶皱之中。在凉亭中心，一棵树木象征着生态循环，与曼哈顿的都市气息形成鲜明对比。

Created for Design Pavilion and the NYCxDesign Festival, FILTER carves out space for quiet recentering within the frenetic energy of Times Square. Designed as both a monumental object and an ephemeral experience, the pavilion establishes a new node in the heart of New York City’s urban fabric – reorienting that experience toward the natural, rather than the man-made. Evoking the rugged Wyoming landscape from which it originates, FILTER draws the visitor into an engagement of its flowing folds of weathered steel and timber. At the pavilion’s center, a lone tree embodies the ecological cycles and serves as a counterpoint to the Manhattan’s urbanity.

▼位于时代广场的Filter装置，The Filter installation in Times Square ©Andres Orozco

这座凉亭由CLB Architects设计，教堂般的形式促使人们对这里有了新的认知，它赋予每位使用者探索自己与自然界关系的机会。装置理念最初源于一个简单示意——一张折叠好的纸经过精细裁剪，能够独自立起来。CLB事务所的合伙人Eric Logan将该模型转化为全尺寸模型，用一系列标准半英寸热轧钢板（或称“chaps”）组合成直径24英尺、高20英尺的椭圆结构。

Designed by CLB Architects, the pavilion’s chapel-like design facilitates a new understanding of place, providing each occupant the chance to explore their own relationship with the natural world. The structure’s concept began as a simple diagram – a folded sheet of paper, carefully sliced, and able to stand on its own. Eric Logan, Partner at CLB, translated this exercise into full-scale existence through a design composed of a series of standard-sized, half-inch hot-rolled steel plates, or “chaps,” arranged to form a 24-foot diameter, 20-foot-tall ellipsoid.

▼装置轴测分解图，Axon exploded ©CLB Architects

Filter像外来物体一样屹立在时代广场西46街和47街之间。动感的耐候钢片吸引人们前来，驻足在环绕外装置边缘的缓坡上观看内部空间。在这里，城市的喧嚣、熙攘的人群和刺眼的灯光都被过滤掉了，游客进入城市的“停歇”时刻，沉浸在静谧之中。正如Logan所说，该结构是“改变并造就环境的作品”。装置内部设置了由回收杉木边材制成的长椅，它们环绕着一棵20英尺高的树木，茂密的树冠遮住了一部分天空，邀请使用者抬头仰望、陷入沉思。

FILTER, located between West 46th and 47th Streets at Times Square, appears to be a foreign object. Fluid shards of naturally-weathered steel invite close inspection, and a gentle ramp leads around the perimeter, offering views of the space held within. The noise, bustling crowds, and glaring lights of the city are filtered out, and the newly-centered visitor is left in solitude, inhabiting the urban “pause.” As Logan explains, the structure presents “an offering, it [FILTER] changes the environment and creates its own.” A bench of reclaimed fir offcuts is folded into the interior, encircling a live, 20-foot-tall tree. The tree’s dense canopy only partially obscures the sky beyond, inviting occupants to look upward and lose themselves in contemplation.

▼动感的耐候钢片吸引人们前来观看，Fluid shards of naturally-weathered steel invite close inspection ©Leonid Furmansky

▼装置外边缘环绕缓坡，A gentle ramp leads around the perimeter ©Leonid Furmansky

▼入口，Entrance ©Leonid Furmansky

▼孩子们在装置内玩耍，Children playing in the installation ©Leonid Furmansky

▼由回收杉木边材制成的长椅环绕着一棵20英尺高的树木，A bench of reclaimed fir offcuts encircles a live, 20-foot-tall tree ©Leonid Furmansky

▼装置细部，Details ©Leonid Furmansky, Kevin Scott

每个元素的设计都注重可持续性、便携性和使用寿命，时间上也超出了纽约设计节的安装期限。总部位于怀俄明州谢里登的EMIT负责钢材预制，他们也是该展览的赞助商。钢材经过风化处理，形成了一种保护性的锈色，让人联想到落基山脉的西部。轻微烧焦和有纹理的木材元素是由位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的可持续木材技术专家Spearhead用回收的胶合木梁制成的。这些系统化的、结构自支撑的部件首先被送到科罗拉多州的格里利进行测试组装，然后被拆卸并运到纽约市，由纽约的承包商Dowbuilt进行安装。总部位于犹他州的Helius公司负责监督照明设计，采用B-K照明公司的灯具，并与纽约的承包商Apollo Electric公司进行协调。最后植入由马里兰州亚当斯敦Raemelton农场捐赠的悬铃木，设计由此完成。

Each element of the structure was designed with attention to its sustainability, portability, and longevity, beyond the duration of the NYCxDesign installation. EMIT, based in Sheridan, Wyoming, is responsible for the steel prefabrication and is the exhibit patron. The steel was weathered to develop a protective rust patina evocative of the Rocky Mountain West. The lightly-charred and textured timber elements were crafted from salvaged Glulam beams by Spearhead, sustainable wood technologists based in British Columbia. These systematized and structurally self-supporting components were first sent to Greeley, Colorado for test assembly, and then disassembled and shipped to New York City to be erected by New York-based contractors Dowbuilt. Utah-based Helius oversaw lighting design, incorporating fixtures by B-K Lighting and coordinating with New York-based contractors Apollo Electric. An organic Exclamation Plane tree, donated by Raemelton Farm in Adamstown, Maryland, completes the design.

▼夜间照明，Night lighting

©Andres Orozco

▼装置鸟瞰，Aerial view of the installation

©Leonid Furmansky

在纽约设计节结束后，树木将被捐赠给纽约市非盈利组织“电池保护协会（The Battery Conservancy）”，装置将被拆卸并运回怀俄明州，继续作为EMIT总部的公共雕塑，供几代人使用。当它完成循环并到达谢里登的最终站点时，其表面将会呈现出经历干燥的西部空气和东海岸的盐度的铜锈积累。通过建立跨地域的联系并密切关注使用者的体验，Filter在城市中拥有了一席之地。

Following the closure of the NYCxDesign festival, the tree will be donated to the New York City non-profit The Battery Conservancy, and the pavilion will be carefully disassembled and transported back to Wyoming to continue its life as a public sculpture at EMIT’s headquarters and enjoyed for generations to come. When it completes its cycle and reaches its final resting point in Sheridan, FILTER’s patina will reflect the accumulations of both dry western air and East Coast salinity. Forging connections across geography and intimately centered on occupant experience, FILTER makes a place of its own.

▼拆卸现场，Demolition site

©Kevin Scott

▼平面图，Plan

©CLB Architects

▼剖面图，Section

©CLB Architects

Architect: CLB Architects

Exhibit Patron, Steel Supplier and Fabricator: EMIT

Wood Supplier and Wood Fabricator: Spearhead

Builder: Dowbuilt

Structural Engineer: KL&A, Inc.

Lighting Designer: HELIUS

Light Fixture Provider: B-K Lighting

Tree Provider: Raemelton Farm

Lighting Contractor: Apollo Electric