Night Metropolis: Light Carves Out Volumes

Avant-garde architecture at night. No floodlights illuminating the entire building, but rather light emanating from facade cuts, diagonal seams, and perforated skins, outlining the fractured and tilted volumes; a continuous light strip runs along the ground of the open plaza at the base. The surrounding city features typical window lights and car headlights. Avoid: uniformly illuminating the entire building with spotlights, using colorful running lights and neon, letting the building go completely dark at night, light being unrelated to the volume's contours.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

入夜後的前衛建築。沒有全面打亮的泛光燈,而是從立面的切口、斜向的縫與穿孔表皮內透出光,把量體的斷裂與傾斜勾勒出來;底部開放廣場的地面有一道連續的燈帶。周圍的城市是一般的窗光與車燈。避免:用投射燈把整棟建築均勻打亮、使用彩色的跑馬燈與霓虹、讓建築在夜裡完全暗掉、光線與量體的輪廓無關。