柔物位于上海临港港城广场展示中心，是直造应2017年上海城市空间艺术季的邀请，设计并建造的构筑物，以作为临港展场的室外拓展部分。

The pavilion is built for 2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season as part of an outdoor extension of the Lingang exhibition.

▼展亭“柔物” ，pavilion “Soft Matter” ©陈颢

技术的发展让建造越来越有可能改变地质条件的束缚，临港新城就是最好的案例之一。站在这个人类有史以来最大规模吹沙填海的场地上，我们已经很难分辨它是流动的还是固化的，是原有自然的还是人工操控的。当回顾这个超尺度的造地过程，我们着迷于其中物态的模糊性，以及超越人类经验所面临的神秘和不可预测。它所呈现的一种意外的自然，也成为了我们思考展亭的起点。

Nowadays, natural geological constraints of the sites are often changed and manipulated by modern technology, and Lin Gang New City in an exemplary place. Standing on the largest hydraulic fill reclamation in history, one would find it difficult to comprehend whether it is liquid or solid, natural or artificial. Inspired by the super-scaled act of land filling, we became fascinated by the ambiguity between material states as well as the unpredictability and mysteriousness of this unprecedented event. This kind of “accidental nature” became the starting point of the pavilion’s design.

▼展亭与景观，landscape ©陈颢

我们选择了基本的建筑原型——覆盖与支撑。覆盖部分使用了发泡聚氨酯，一种通常在建筑中用作保温层的隐性材料。聚氨酯可在现场喷涂成形，并能在极短时间内由液态迅速膨胀硬化，并在表面自由发泡出褶皱。其中物态的模糊性带给体验者不同尺度下的多样解读。

We took the basic architectural prototype — canopy and column. The canopy is created by polyurethane foam: a heat insulating material that is usually hidden within architecture. Upon spraying, the foam rapidly hardens and expands, which gives it a bubble-like texture. The ambiguity of the foam’s material state gives users multiple ways of scalar interpretations.

▼材料研究，material analysis ©直造建筑事务所

▼初期概念模型，initial concept model ©直造建筑事务所