2019年底，受雕塑家蒋晟的委托，我们去北京为他的新展“空房间”进行展览设计的前期现场考察。展览选址在北京朝阳区的山下学堂一层小剧场——“黑匣子剧场”，地处紧邻京城森林公园的一处创意园中。

At the end of 2019, we were commissioned by the JIANGJIABAN to travel to Beijing for a preliminary site visit for their new exhibition “VOID”. The site of the exhibition is the “Black Box Theater”, a small theater on the first floor of The Dome Studio in Chaoyang District, Beijing. It is located in a creative park adjacent to the Olympic Forest Park.

▼展厅概览，overview ©雷坛坛

此次为间筑与蒋晟的第三次合作，而“空房间”也是蒋晟在创作和精神旅途中的转折点。在这个名为“空”的房间里，众多元素“满溢”，譬如他常用的琉璃材质，通常多为明澈剔透，在“空房间”内却以高饱和度的实心色调呈现。

As the third collaboration between TEAM_BLDG and Jiang Sheng, the “VOID” is also a turning point for Jiang Sheng in his creative and spiritual journey. This room was named “VOID” but was“overflowed”with numerous elements. For example, Jiang Sheng adopted a lot of solid and highly saturated materials in “VOID”, instead of the crystal class glass material that he consistently used for his work.

▼轴测图，axonometric drawing ©间筑设计

从山下学堂的北侧大门进入后，我们先来到了山下咖啡厅轻快明亮的开放空间，而穿过正对咖啡馆的剧场大门，我们毫无转折过渡地进入了一个具有强烈戏剧属性的封闭空间。当我们第一次走进剧场时，最先感受到的是空间上的交流与融合、冲击与矛盾。我们一方面希望保持剧场现有蒙太奇般的戏剧属性，另一方面也希望能够通过入口过渡空间的设置柔化观众的观展体验。于是我们决定将展览的出入口设置在原剧场作为后勤使用的侧门：一条狭长走道的尽头。

After entering from the north gate of the The Demo Studio, we first came to the joyful open space of The Demo Café. After passing through the theater door facing the cafe, we smoothly entered an enclosed interior space with strong theatrical attributes. As soon as we stepped into the theater, we were amazed at the impact and ambivalence of spatial communication and integration. On the one hand, we hope to maintain the existing montage-like dramatic attributes of the theater, and on the other hand, we also hope to soften the visitor’s experience of the exhibition through the setting of the transition space at the entrance. So we decided to set the entrance and exit of the exhibition at the side door of the theater, which was originally for logistical purpose, at the end of a narrow walkway.

▼走廊空间，the corridor ©雷坛坛