项目信息

　　Project Information

　　项目位置：美国纽约克罗斯比街43号

　　Location：43 crosby street,New York

　　室内设计：卓

　　Interior Design：Dror Benshetrit

　　竣工时间：2011年7月

　　Completion time：July,2011

　　Dror Benshetrit：DROR设计公司创始人

　　代表作品：Tron Chair、Orange County Restaurant、Levi's Showroom

　　文编/张苑兰 Editor/Lancy

　　Soho犹太教会堂位于美国纽约克罗斯比街43号，由国际知名设计师Dror Benshetrit操刀进行室内改造设计。考虑到曼哈顿南部犹太人群的开放心态，此次设计改造旨在为社区个人成长和公共交流提供一个身心舒适的社交和宗教服务场所。

　　The Soho Synagogue located at 43 crosby street in New York, which was conceived by Dror Benshetrit,the internationally renowned designer who was borned in Israel.

　　接待区

　　设计师以现代且随意的设计语言活化传统和基本的功能元素。原时装精品店店面的条纹状橱窗让人不禁联想到条形码或犹太教男士晨祷时的披巾和祈祷袍上独有的线性图样，其在空间的运用为祈祷者提供了必要的私密性。

　　The striped front window, once used as a fashion boutique, provides privacy to the new house of prayer. These hanging strips are meant to evoke ，both the lines of the tallit shawl that Jewish men wear for praying, as well as the image of bar code.

　　走进室内，迎接聚会者的是一条狭长的接待区。接待台由Dror特别设计的白色Qua Dror桌脚支撑，与透明玻璃台面形成鲜明对比，极具雕塑感。接待台对面的墙上镶嵌有许多深浅不一的蓝色瓷砖，砖块上分别刻有教堂捐赠者的姓名。天花的设计传达了设计师传统与现代审美并置的双重主义，集中的线条不断缩小人们的视角，导引人们走向祷告室，均匀排布的定制灯泡嵌身于黑色线条之中，像极了犹太宗教仪式中所用的多连灯烛台，抑或是现代城市中的地铁线路图。

　　Congregants are welcomed by a long narrowing reception area featuring a sculptural desk that consists of two white Qua Dror feet ，which provide a contrast to the transparent glass top. Across from this signature piece is a wall installation of bricks painted in varying shades of blue that display the names of donors who made the synagogue possible. The converging lines on the ceiling contribute to the narrowing perspective of the corridor that leads to the prayer room. The fitted light bulbs and dark lines drawn on the ceiling of this space can resemble a menorah or the modern grid of a subway map.[NT:PAGE]

　　Torah圆弧

　　穿过入口走道后便进入一个金属楼梯平台，呈现眼前的是一个豁然开朗的大空间，那是信徒们虔诚祈祷的祷告室。从平台俯瞰井然有序的祷告室，首先映入眼帘的便是位于正前方的犹太教Torah圆弧。教律圆弧由两个重叠的圆环组成，每个圆环内各有一个三角板。两个圆环时而重叠时而分离，重叠为一体时，两个三角板便组成一个大卫之星(犹太教的六芒星，犹太教与犹太文化的标志)。在教律圆弧的中心位置，放置有时装设计师Yigal Azrouel设计的一件衣服。设计师对宗教元素的如此诠释恰恰体现了他对人们生活环境变迁的敏锐洞察力。

　　Once passing through the corridor, visitors arrive at the top of a steel and glass stairwell opening the view and the path to the under-leveled sanctuary. From the top of the stairs overlooking the prayers room, directly in front of the viewer is the Torah Arc, made from overlapping circles that slide open and close, each holding one of the triangles that form the star of David when they are closed and overlapping 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 transfomation and motion in objects of our living environment.

　　祷告室

　　祷告室天花上的线条和灯饰由接待区引入，时空由此串联在一起，却是截然不同的环境氛围。

　　传统的彩色玻璃窗定义了祷告室的空间性质，在一系列复古灯泡的点缀下，仪式般的神圣感顿时充溢了信徒们的心灵。墙面上镶嵌了许多面板，信徒们可以将座椅与桌子折叠放进墙内作为壁面装饰，同时满足了空间的功能性与艺术性的需求。

　　Art on the walls consists of a series of panels, which the congregants can unhang and fold into chairs or coffee tables. Within this space, Dror has interpreted his own idea of the prayer benches with comfortable beige low-couches. The sanctuary atmosphere, traditionally created by the light of the stained-glass window, is created with single retro-style edison bulbs.

　　在祷告室内，设计师将原有建筑的工业管道暴露在外并强调极富历史感的砖墙。同时，设计师巧妙利用基础墙内的七块整齐排列的方砖壁画构筑了一副犹太教七连灯象征符号，将建筑外壳所承载的历史感巧妙融入到宗教空间之中。

　　Within the prayers room, Dror decided to leave the industrial elements of the pre-existing building's pipes exposed as a means of accentuate the brick walls. Seven aligned brick-squares found within the wall foundation, create a fresco representing a menorah. His intentions for this are to embrace and integrate the history and nature of the architectural shell that hosts the religious space.

　　Soho犹太教堂接待空间设计语言简练却富于变化，祷告空间复古感凝重却空明敞净，在传统与现代中徜徉，恍若穿梭古今，心灵在这时空的跨度里接受着上帝的洗礼。正如Dror所说，我意在为信徒们创造一个能鼓舞人心的极富创意的庇护所，为宗教传统引进一轮新的曙光。

　　For this project, Dror has played with dual meanings through the overall artistic direction of the space and its design details.