休斯顿市中心高层建筑改造——建筑文化学院（aac）工作坊成果

2025/07/15 17:05:59

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Jeff Fitlow, Jochen Stüber

gmp基金会建筑文化学院（aac）春季工作坊，聚焦于位于美国德克萨斯州休斯顿的埃克森美孚大厦的改建。这座摩天大楼坐落在休斯顿市中心的贝尔街800号，曾见证了能源工业的蓬勃发展，并在休斯顿崛起为全球石油与贸易中心的进程中发挥了关键作用。然而，随着时代变迁，这栋建于上世纪60年代的45层高楼已空置多年。如何激活这座闲置的办公楼，在创造亟需居住空间的同时焕发城市活力，成为本次工作坊的重要议题。

As part of a special focus on the United States, the spring workshop of the gmp Foundation’s aac Academy for Architectural Culture explored new uses for the ExxonMobil Building, a high-rise in Houston, Texas. Located on Bell Street in the heart of downtown, the building once stood as a symbol of the energy industry’s growth and played a key role in Houston’s rise as a center of oil and commerce. However, the 45-storey building from the 1960s has now stood vacant for some time. So how can the potential of this empty office tower be reimagined to help meet the city’s urgent need for housing while also revitalizing the surrounding urban environment?

Jeff Fitlow, Jochen Stüber

16名aac奖学金获得者在为期四周的研究中，基于详实的建筑数据和对城市环境的深入分析，制定了兼顾功能和社会需求的改造方案。团队并未将贝尔街800号高楼视为孤立个体，而是将其置于更广阔的城市肌理中，致力于在与邻近街区联动发展的基础上，探索多功能超级街区的整体利用。所提出的方案展示了在不同功能分区中因地制宜的策略。

Over a four-week period, the 16 aac scholarship students engaged intensively with this question, developing proposals that balanced functional needs with social considerations. Their concepts were informed by detailed building data and thorough analyses of the site’s urban context. Rather than viewing the 800 Bell Street tower in isolation, the teams approached it as part of a larger urban fabric, integrating it and the surrounding lots into a multifunctional “superblock.” The resulting design proposals offer a range of strategies tailored to the local context.

Jeff Fitlow, Jochen Stüber

工作坊由一次与莱斯大学建筑学院合作的休斯顿实地考察之旅拉开序幕。奖学金获得者们深入考察了空置建筑及周边区域，并在莱斯大学建筑学院教室参与专题讲座。返回汉堡后，各小组在aac工作室立即投入设计工作，并在导师团队的指导下持续推进：福尔克温·玛格（Volkwin Marg）、gmp合伙人兼执行总裁施特凡·胥茨（Stephan Schütz）、合伙人尼古拉斯·博兰克（Nicolas Pomränke）及项目合伙人托比亚斯·凯尔（Tobias Keyl）全程提供了大力支持。

The workshop began with a field trip to Houston, organized in collaboration with the Rice University School of Architecture. The scholarship students explored the vacant tower and surrounding area, and attended lectures hosted by the School of Architecture at Rice. Back at the aac studios in Hamburg, the teams started their design work.

Jeff Fitlow, Jochen Stüber

工作坊还邀请了多位专家学者举办讲座，包括斯图加特Transsolar能源技术公司的纳迪尔·阿卜杜塞梅德（Nadir Abdessemed）、柏林b+ (bplus.xyz)工作室的乔纳斯·詹克（Jonas Janke），以及纽约Diller Scofidio + Renfro建筑事务所的查尔斯·伦弗罗（Charles Renfro）。

They were mentored throughout the workshop by Volkwin Marg and gmp Executive Partner Stephan Schütz, along with gmp Partner Nicolas Pomränke and Associate Partner Tobias Keyl. Guest lectures were delivered by Nadir Abdessemed of Transsolar Klima Engineering (Stuttgart), Jonas Janke of b+ (bplus.xyz) from Berlin, and Charles Renfro of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (New York).

各小组的设计理念各具特色：第一组将艺术创作融入社区工作坊，通过展示本地艺术社群的创作过程激活社区文化活力。

The first of the four design teams focused on integrating artistic production and public workshops, aiming to make creative processes in the local arts scene visible and to culturally activate the neighborhood.