這對30歲出頭的設計師夫妻有著完全不同尋常的工作方式，他們購買自己喜歡的房子，經常在裝修時搬入並居住，然後再出售，然後繼續下一個項目。就像Chan Eayrs所說的那樣“從內部窺探”。不受客戶需求和開發人員壓力的束縛，他們的全麵、專注的方法——他們一次隻在一個家工作——確保了完全的創作自由，並讓他們獲得了作為設計師的難得的滿足感，讓他們能夠親身體驗自己創造的東西。
Husband-and-wife team Zoe Chan and Merlin Eayrs, the creative duo behind Chan + Eayrs, are true home makers in both literal and figurative terms. Not only do they craft bespoke homes from the ground up, from finding the right site to designing and building it down to the last detail, they also live in the property for a while before selling and moving on to their next project. Untethered from the demands of clients, and the pressure of developers, their holistic, focused approach—they only work on one home at a time— ensures complete creative freedom and rewards them with the rare satisfaction as architects to get to experience what they have created first-hand.
Chan + Eayrs的最新住宅Beldi是由倫敦Shoreditch一家舊鞋廠改造而成的閣樓空間，它優雅地展示了他們以概念為導向、以細節為導向的家居設計方法。他們從旅行中遇到的傳統四合院中汲取靈感，從他們在馬拉喀什結婚時拜訪的摩洛哥“riads”，到他們和年幼的女兒一起旅行的蘇州；曾經的工業空間被重新想象為一個開放的綠洲，舒緩的簡單和手工製作的美麗，在青翠的色調和自然紋理的金碧輝煌：石灰灰泥牆、亞麻百葉窗、石灰橡木刷木器和Beldi tiltry——一種摩洛哥傳統手工製作的赤陶瓷磚，住宅的名字就來源於此。
Chan + Eayrs’ latest home, The Beldi, a converted loft space in a former shoe factory in Shoreditch, London, gracefully exemplifies their concept-driven and detail-orientated home making approach. Drawing from the traditional courtyard houses they encountered on their travels, from the Moroccan “riads” they visited in Marrakech where they got married, to those in Suzhou, China, where they travelled with their young daughter, the once industrial space has been re-imagined as an open-plan oasis of soothing simplicity and handcrafted beauty, resplendent in verdant hues and natural textures: lime plaster walls, linen shutters, limed oak brush timber carpentry, and Beldi tiles—a type of terracotta tile traditionally handcrafted in Morocco from which the residence takes its name.
閣樓占據了一棟經過改建的工廠建築的整個樓層，這種情況很少發生，這是選擇該地點的主要原因之一，除了有充足的自然光，還有四麵原有的30扇高窗以及寬敞的空間，可以俯瞰樹梢和隔壁倫納德教堂。當他們買下這處房產後，他們做的第一件事就是拆掉所有的牆壁，暫時住在這個空曠的空間裏，而不是在繪圖板或速寫本上進行頭腦風暴。
The loft occupies an entire floor of a converted factory building, a rare occurrence which was one of the main reasons this site was chosen, along with the abundance of natural light, courtesy of the 30 original Crittall windows on all four sides, and the generous views over the treetops and Leonard’s Church next door. Instead of brainstorming over drafting boards or sketch books, the first thing Chan and Eayrs did when they acquired the property was to take out all of the walls and temporarily live in the empty space in order “to understand the light volumes and temperature at all times of the day”, as they explain.
用摩洛哥手工瓷磚製作而成的天然陶土質地或釉麵白色瓷磚，閣樓采用編織籃和人字形布局(人字形住宅是他們第一個項目人字形住宅的參考)，並在中國蘇州的傳統四合院房屋中找到相互交織的幾何形狀，用這對夫婦的話來說，閣樓的地板是“編織的視覺圖-他們的旅行和曆史”。
Crafted out of handmade Moroccan tiles in their natural terracotta texture or in a glazed white version, laid out in Basketweave and Herringbone patterns—the latter a reference to their first ever project the Herringbone house—and interlocking geometries found in traditional courtyard houses in Suzhou, China, the loft’s floors are, in the couple’s own words, “a woven visual map of their travels and history”.
地磚的土褐色色調與柔和的綠色調色板相輔相成，增強了窗外翠綠的景色，並喚起了人們在樹屋裏的感覺，這就是這對夫婦住在閣樓裏的感覺。開心果色的牆壁和天花板，由石灰灰泥和天然綠色顏料混合而成，窗框是淡綠色的，深綠色的亞麻窗簾是與織布工Christabel Balfour合作設計的，在她的織布機上精心製作，營造出一種觸感優美的翠綠氛圍。
The earthy terracotta hues of the floor tiles are complemented by a colour palette of soft greens that amplifies the verdant views outside, as well as evokes the feeling of being in a tree house, which is what test-living in the loft almost felt like to the couple. Pistachio-coloured walls and ceilings, made out of lime plaster mixed with a natural green pigment, fennel-green Crittall window frames, and darker green linen shutters, which were designed in collaboration with weaver Christabel Balfour and crafted on her loom, conjure a verdant ambience of tactile beauty.
綠色和藍色的附加層，例如彩繪木櫃，是為該項目在現場定製的，還包括鑲板牆，門，廚房單元和內置家具，室內植物，手工製作的玻璃器皿和陶瓷，進一步增強了Beldi的觸感和自然質感。
Additional layers of green and blue hues, such as the painted timber cabinets—which were custom made on site for the project along with the panelled walls, doors, kitchen units, and built-in furniture—house plants, and hand-crafted glassware and ceramics, further enhance The Beldi’s textured, tactile and natural feel.
主要項目信息
項目名稱：THE BELDI
項目地點：英國倫敦
項目類型：住宅空間/loft住宅
完成時間：2018
項目麵積：265㎡
設計公司：CHAN + EAYRS
設計團隊：Zoe Chan Eayrs / Merlin Eayrs
攝影：Taran Wilkhu for The Modern House and Toby Lewis Thomas
