MEET 数字艺术中心
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CRA “Carlo Ratti Associati” 和Italo Rota设计了MEET - 米兰数字文化和创意科技中心，将于2020年10月31日向公众开放。该项目占据了一个历史悠久的宫殿，几十年来一直被视为该市文化生活的伟大象征，过去两年得到了卡里普洛基金会的支持进行全面翻新。在其核心，有一个宽敞的垂直公共空间 - 包括一个15米高的可居住楼梯间 - 可以轻松地从剧场转变为工作区或会议区，是中心所有日常活动和活动的焦点。
通过MEET项目，CRA旨在探讨在日益数字化的世界中，物理空间的意义。它认为，建筑应该促进人与人之间意外的相遇，而这些在数字领域中是缺失的。 MEET的设计通过功能的混合化来实现这一目标 - 即任何空间都可以同时举办不同的活动。这种设计方法最好体现在中心的中央垂直广场上，但它延伸到整个中心，到多个用于展览，讲座和表演的房间。
“在数字世界中，物理空间的作用是什么？今天，我们继续在由大流行病引起的孤立状态下生活和工作，几乎任何事情都可以在网上完成。在这个时候，利用建筑来产生偶然的时刻并促进新的联系是至关重要的 - 正是这些很少在网络上发生的联系，”CRA的创始合伙人，麻省理工学院 “MIT” 城市技术实践教授Carlo Ratti说道。 “实现这个目标的一种方法是克服对空间功能的严格划分。当每个地方都可以服务于多种用途时，它将多个社区汇集在一起，促进新思想的生成和传播。”
建筑核心的垂直广场体现了该项目的愿景。在一个颜色鲜艳的楼梯周围，人们可以停留在一系列不对称的平台上，这些平台通过多媒体投影系统得到了丰富的内容。这些空间可以用于讲座，装置艺术，艺术表演等。最重要的是，它们在人们穿越建筑时鼓励偶然的相遇。
MEET场地将数字技术融入到物理空间中，配备了一系列先进的投影系统和屏幕分布在建筑各处。这使人们能够以意想不到的方式访问MEET的数字档案。该项目借鉴了科学家马克·维瑟 “Mark Weiser” 提出的“无处不在的计算”概念，他认为数字技术将变得如此普及，以至于它将“消失在我们生活的背景中”，该项目将建筑本身转化为分享知识和文化的媒介。
MEET位于米兰市中心的Porta Venezia区的一座宫殿建筑中。该宫殿建于20世纪初，并于1990年代晚期由著名的意大利建筑师盖·奥伦蒂 “Gae Aulenti” 扩建。CRA和Italo Rota重新装修的MEET场地横跨三层，占地1500平方米 “16,000平方英尺”。除了其他功能外，它还容纳了一个可重新配置的观众厅和电影院，与长期合作的意大利电影档案馆一起运营，还有一个咖啡厅和一个数字装置的沉浸式大厅。
CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Italo Rota have designed MEET – Milan’s center for digital culture and creative technology, which will open to the public on October 31st, 2020. The project occupies a historic palazzo, known for decades as one of the great symbols of cultural life in the city, which has been fully renovated in the last two years with the support of Fondazione Cariplo. At its core, there is a wide vertical public space - including a 15-meter-high habitable stairwell - which can seamlessly turn from theater to workspace to meeting area, and serves as the focal point for all the center’s daily activities and events.
With the MEET project, CRA aims to investigate the meaning of physical space in an increasingly digitized world. It argues that architecture should foster unexpected encounters between people, precisely those that are missing in the digital realm. The design of MEET strives to achieve this aim through the hybridization of functions – that is, the possibility for any space to simultaneously host different activities. Such a design approach is best expressed by the central vertical plaza, but it extends throughout the center, to multiple rooms for exhibitions, talks, and performances.
“What is the role of physical space in a digital world? Today, we continue to live and work in pandemic-induced isolation where almost anything can be done online. At this time, it is vital to use architecture to produce serendipitous moments and help foster new connections – precisely those that rarely happen on the web,” says Carlo Ratti, founding partner of CRA and professor of the practice of Urban Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “One way to achieve this objective is to overcome any strict division of spatial functions. When every place can serve multiple purposes, it brings together multiple communities, facilitating the generation and circulation of new ideas.”
The vertical plaza at the core of the building embodies the project’s vision. All around a brightly-colored stairwell that moves in a zigzagging fashion, people can stop onto a series of asymmetric landings, enriched by a system of multimedia projections. These spaces can be used for talks, installations, art performances. Most importantly, they encourage chance encounters as people navigate through the building.
The MEET venue embeds digital technologies into physical space with an array of advanced projection systems and screens scattered across the building. This allows people to access MEET’s digital archive in unexpected ways. Drawing on the idea of “ubiquitous computing” put forward by scientist Mark Weiser, who argued that digital technology would become so pervasive that it will “recede into the background of our lives”, the project transforms architecture itself into a medium to share knowledge and culture.
MEET is hosted in a palatial building in the central Milanese neighborhood of Porta Venezia. The palace was built in the early 20th century and expanded by renowned Italian architect Gae Aulenti in the late 1990s. The MEET venue as renovated by CRA and Italo Rota extends over 1,500 square meters (16,000 square feet) across three levels. Among other functions, it accommodates a reconfigurable auditorium and movie theater operated in collaboration with the longstanding Cineteca Italiana, a café, and an immersive hall for digital installations.