新加坡 Canvas House 純白色的共享居住空間設計頭條網

設計 \\ Design：Figment x MOD

圖片 \\ Photo：Edward Hendricks, CI&A Photography

MOD新近完成了一幢全白色的帆布房，用作共享居住空間，坐落在新加坡布萊爾路沿線的一家文物商店內。

MOD has newly completed an all-white Canvas House for co-living, set in a heritage shophouse in Singapore along Blair Road.

像文物保護商店這樣的歷史住宅是記憶的寶庫，擁有前世的記憶和精彩的過去。設計師科林和他的團隊將“帆布屋”概念化，通過層次、時間和向上循環的概念來探索我們與過去、現在和未來的關係。

Historic dwellings like conservation shophouses are repositories of memories, with previous lives and a past of their own. Colin and his team conceptualised the “Canvas House", exploring our relationship with the past, present and future through the concept of layers, time and up-cycling.

MOD模糊了空間與物體之間的界限，在概念上用一層白色覆蓋了帆布房子，為未來提供了一張畫布，並將重點放在集中區域的歷史保護上。

Blurring the boundaries between space and object, MOD conceptually blanketed Canvas House with a layer of white that provides a canvas for the future, and focuses historical preservation in concentrated areas.

Colin闡述道：“在自適應重用項目中，問題始終是相同的，我們如何在過去與現在之間劃清界限？如果人們選擇該項目只是為了保存，那麼不如選擇停滯不前……這可能使人麻痺和不思進取。但與此同時，我們也不希望通過創造過於陌生或新穎的事物來完全無視歷史。我們的回應是用一塊空白的空白畫布覆蓋現有歷史，同時保留編排的瞥見過去，遮蓋住空間和其中的傢俱，使我們能夠模糊過去與現在，物體與空間之間的固有界限。”

Colin elaborates, “When it comes to adaptive reuse projects, the question is always the same, how do we tread the line between the past and the present? If one opts for the project to be just about preservation, it's as good as time standing still… which could be paralysing and inhibiting. But at the same time, neither do we want to disregard history completely by creating something too foreign or novel. Our response was to layer over the existing history with a proverbial blank canvas whilst leaving choreographed glimpses into the past, blanketing both space and the furniture in it - allowing us to blur the inherent boundaries between past and present, object and space.”

這棟房屋有節奏地展示了它的部分歷史，有老木材的影子，也有一層層暴露的磚塊和二手傢俱的複雜細節。大部分的桌子、椅子、櫃子、鏡子、屏風和梳妝檯都被重新利用，賦予了新的生命。為了向過去致敬，同時又賦予它未來的特色，MOD將這些經過循環利用的作品全幅漆成白色，但在裝飾花瓶、陶瓷盤子、木屏風、梳妝檯和椅子的角腿上雕刻出“有趣的躲躲貓”圖案。歷史細節以類似的概念方式保存下來，磚牆以密集的圓圈呈現。

The house rhythmically reveals parts of its past, with Shadows of old timber as well as Layers of revealed brick and intricate details of pre-owned furniture. Majority of the tables, chairs, chests, mirrors, screens and vanity desks, were re-purposed and given a new lease of life. To pay homage to the past, yet give it character for the future, MOD painted these up-cycled pieces all-white but carved out “playful peek-a-boo reveals” of vignettes on the decorative vases, ceramic plates and corner legs of wooden screens, vanity dressers and chairs. Historic details are preserved in a similarly conceptual fashion, where brick walls are revealed in concentrated circles.

同時，MOD邀請來訪者用工作室創作的基於文本的霓虹燈作品Dream來想象未來，其中引用了Thomas Jefferson的一句話，概括了MOD對Canvas House的處理方法。“比起過去的歷史，我更喜歡未來的夢想”，這句話總結了房子的態度；設計師科林解釋說：“這是一幅想象未來的中性的白色畫布，而不是對過去的大規模致敬。”

At the same time, MOD invites visitors to imagine a future with Dream, a text-based neon piece that the studio created, with a quote by Thomas Jefferson that encapsulates MOD’s approach to Canvas House. The quote "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past” summarizes the attitude of the house; Colin explains, “it is a neutral white canvas for the future to be dreamt upon, rather than a wholesale homage to the past.