Butterfly Aviary_ 버터플라이 파빌리온

Multilayered Atmospheres의 개념을 적용한 인공 구조물

아랍에미리트연방(UAE)의 샤르자의 철과 유리의 이중구조로 만들어지고 자연을 닮아가고자 한 나비 모양의 인공 구조물

아랍에미리트연방(UAE)의 샤르자의 수도 중심부인 누르 섬(Noor Island)에 이색적인 버터플라이 파빌리온이 들어서 화제가 되고 있다. 독일의 디자인스튜디오 3deluxe가 디자인한 이 건물은 마치 나비 모양의 새장 같다는 점에서 ‘The Butterfly Aviary’로 불린다. 금색의 화려한 장식구조로 외관을 구성하는 파빌리온은 철과 유리로 만들어진 유기적인 이중구조로 이루어져 있다.

파빌리온을 덮고 있는 철재 구조물은 나뭇잎의 문양을 촘촘히 엮어 만든 것으로 햇볕을 적절히 걸러주는 동시에 빛과 그림자를 통해 내부에 오묘한 분위기를 제공한다. 이러한 나뭇잎 문양 패턴은 파빌리온 내부의 바닥과 벽면에서도 어김없이 적용되었다. 파빌리온을 형성하는 크리스털 유리 천장구조는 약 3.5~5.5m 높이로 벽과 천장이 온통 유리로 마감되어 있다. 내부 디자인에는 열성형 미네랄 재료인 크리온이 사용되었다. 인공적으로 조성된 구조물 사이로 녹색의 싱그러움이 자라나고, 방문객들은 나무로 마감된 길을 통해 파빌리온을 거닐 수 있다.

230m² 면적에 들어선 파빌리온 내부에는 수백 개의 이국적인 나비들이 일주일에 두 번씩 말레이시아로부터 옮겨온다. 파빌리온 안에서 자라나는 나비들은 고치 벽을 뚫고 나와 약 1주정도의 평균 수명을 살게 된다. 나비가 자라는 파빌리온 환경을 만들기 위해 디자이너는 실온 26°C와 높은 습도로 조성하였고 방문객들은 날아다니는 곤충을 직접 접할 수 있게 된다. 공간을 따라 이동하는 나비와 함께 방문객들의 시선은 옮겨 다니고 사뭇 특별한 시간을 갖게 된다. 이처럼 버터플라이 파빌리온은 인공적인 구조물이지만 그 속에 자연을 닮고자 하였고, 나비의 소리 없는 날개 짓과 어른거리는 색채, 생화와 조화, 그림자의 투영 등을 통일성 있게 공간 전체에 적용하고 있다.

Architects_ 3deluxe

자료_ 3deluxe

Photo by JoaquínBusch, BjörnAsmussen, ChristianBauer, CandidoHermida

Having completed the Butterfly Pavilion on Noor Island in the middle of the capital of the Arab Emirate Sharjah in December, German design studio 3deluxe is now releasing first image material of another design element on Noor Island: the Butterfly Aviary.

On the lagoon island, 3deluxe is currently designing a 2.5 ha trans media landscape park, interwoven with an ensemble of several themed pavilions and buildings. After the opening of the park in mid-December, further attractions will be added in the course of the coming weeks and months.

The Butterfly Aviary is located at the center of the Butterfly Pavilion, shaded by its defining golden roof. The polygonal architecture is an artificial eco-system, and its rainforest biotope – populated with countless butterflies – is housed inside a sealed climate skin. The biosphere’s steel structure is clad with an all glass façade construction, providing just a minimal barrier between inside and outside. Organic skylights provide spectacular views into the shading structure and allow shadows of the golden leaves to enter the aviary. The light that enters and the shadows this creates define the mood inside the biotope.

In designing Noor Island Park 3deluxe took on the exciting challenge of sounding out new urban spaces and giving residents the opportunity to explore their city intellectually, emotionally and physically. The overall project, which is realized on behalf of the state development board Shurooq and project initiator André Heller, gave the architects at 3deluxe the opportunity to develop and implement transdisciplinary design ideas without being restricted by purely functional and profit-based considerations. The design combines a wealth of aesthetic stylistic elements in an interdisciplinary architectural language that spans space and cultures. Numerous installations and small structures, light and media objects, unusual plants and a musical soundscape it gives rise to a holistic, multisensory experience.

The rain forest biotope covers 230m² and boasts a spectacular landscape. Over 500 exotic butterflies – flown in from Malaysia twice a week – thrive in this biosphere and can be observed during all stages of their development. The crystalline glass structure’s ceiling is between 3,5 and 5,5 m high. The all-over glazing merges floor and ceiling, a glance to the above reveals organically shaped skylights and the golden shading roof on top.

The Butterfly Aviary illustrates 3deluxe’s design principle ‘Multilayered Atmospheres’: Inside, an undulating landscape made of thermoformed mineral material Krion merges horizontal and vertical. The three- dimensional puzzle was manufactured in a technically sophisticated process and assembled on site. Plant tubs are integrated in its shape, visitors enter an all-over of walls, floor and ceiling. Wooden paths lead through an artificial landscape that eliminates all boundaries of traditional spaces. The mineral material is printed with patterns and ornaments repeated from the golden shading roof, and backlit in some places. A three-dimensional graphic was created by means of a special sublimation print. Nature seems to be growing from the floral print of the material that appears to be ground or vertical garden, depending on the position.

The butterflies thriving within this sphere have an average lifespan of about a week after hatching from their cocoons. It is all the more effortful to sustain the climate conditions essential for their wellbeing. 3deluxe have created a biotope with a constant room temperature of 26°C and high atmospheric humidity. Visitors have the opportunity to encounter the flying insects at close range, for instance at one of the feeding sites with sugar water and fruit. The gaze follows them and loses itself in plants, leaves and ornaments of the tropical world. In the Butterfly Aviary, layers and superimpositions of shadows, projections, real and printed plants, shimmering colors and soundless butterfly wings, all of them organic, integral, in motion, established.

3DELUXE

For over 20 years 3deluxe has provided pioneering inspiration at the interface of design, architecture, art and pop culture. The internationally operating German design office develops intermedia design concepts that stand out for their striking formal idiom and uncompromising aesthetic appeal. 3deluxe’s interdisciplinary philosophy and approach demonstrates an open mind towards social and cultural processes of change that serve as a key source of inspiration for their complex designs. Projects by 3deluxe garner international recognition and have won prestigious design and architectural awards. categories of wall, floor, ceiling dissolved in shimmering motion. The natural becomes artificial – the anthropogenic resembles nature.

Architects: 3deluxe, Germany

Interior Architects: 3deluxe, Germany

Location: Noor Island, Sharjah City, Sharjah, U.A.E.

Area: 820㎡

Basic roof construction : Steel structure

Basic pavillion construction : Concrete skeleton structure

Client: Andre Heller, Artevent GmbH, Austria

Contracting authority: Shurooq, Sharjah, U.A.E.

Roof construction: Seele Middle East, Dubai, U.A.E.

Pavilion construction: Waagner Biro Gulf L.L.C., Dubai, U.A.E.

Interior works: Candido Hermida, Spain

Interior Material: Krion

Planting: Greenworks, Dubai, U.A.E.