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我们的设计实践基于一个基本认知，即存在的本质是「事物」与「事物间关系」的共生，两者混同一体、互根互用。「群体-个体」、「新生-故旧」、「消解-建立」、「开始-结束」……，表面对立的矛盾间往往并无绝对分野，只是同一「事物-关系」本质的不同显相。显相恃本质蓄势、本质由显相做功。我们将建筑视作一种灵活的框架性媒介，用以精准调和各项目内部的具体极化元素，使之形成互为拱扶的场域，每个元素都因其他元素的存在而增益自身，最终揭示出项目文脉中既存的本质潜能，令作为造物的建筑获得直指人心的力量。

「不，也」可以被理解为一种「中庸」的中枢：不如此，也不如彼、不在此，也不在彼、不受缚，也不自由、不有，也不无。它同时寻求「运动调和」与「精准切入」，暧昧而分明地在自上而下的秩序与自下而上的自由之间、在群体倾向与个体选择之间、在纷繁的显相与统一的本质之间取得微妙的连通与平衡。

Our design practice is based on the fundamental belief that the essence of existence is the symbiosis of "Things" and their “Interrelations”. The two reciprocally define and reinforce each other, neither could exist solely. There are often no absolute distinctions between the seemingly opposite contradictions—Collective-Individual, New-Old, Devastating-Constructive, Begin-End, etc.—they are usually just different appearances of a single "Thing-Interrelation" essence. The appearances rely on the essence to hold potential energy, and the essence does work via the appearances. We regard architecture as a flexible framework and medium to involve the polarized elements of each project into dialogue, creating an Interpotentiation Field where all elements’ energies are heightened in each other’s presence, revealing the existing essential capacity of a project’s Context, and endowing architecture with the spiritual transcendence that directly appeals to human heart.

NOR is considered as a Core of The Middle Way: neither this nor that, neither here nor there, neither bound nor free, neither Being nor Non-being. It seeks both “flexible mediation” and “precise intervention”, ambiguously yet explicitly searching for connections and balances between top-down order and bottom-up freedom, between collective tendencies and individual choices, and between numerous appearances and the essential unity.

「不也设计工作室」是一间涉足建筑、室内、装置等不同尺度工作的建筑设计事务所，2020年成立于北京。在合伙人姜伯源、王静雯、杨硕的主持下，工作室已设计完成北京X美术馆、深圳碧榕湾幼儿园、上海绿瓦体育书店、阿那亚金生隆餐厅等多项作品，被Dezeen、Archdaily、Architizer、卷宗Wallpaper、建筑学报、谷德、有方等专业建筑媒体发表报道，并获得Architizer A+ Awards 2022全球最佳年轻事务所Top5、Archdaily 2022年度最佳建筑大奖提名、安邸2022 AD 100 Young事务所、WAFC 2022杰出设计奖、第二届三联人文城市奖提名等荣誉及奖项。工作室亦受邀参加包括2023年威尼斯建筑双年展、2022及2019年深港城市\建筑双城双年展、2021年北京城市建筑双年展，2021年北京国际设计周等在内的重要展览。

Studio NOR is an architectural design firm established in Beijing in 2020, We work at multiple scales from building and landscape to interior and installation. Led by partners Boyuan Jiang, Jingwen Wang and Shuo Yang, NOR has designed various projects including the X Museum in Beijing, the Shenzhen Birongwan Kindergarten, the Shanghai LVWA Bookstore and the Aranya Jin-Sheng-Long Restaurant, widely published by professional media including Dezeen, Archdaily, Architizer, Wallpaper, Architectural Journal, Gooood and Archiposition. Recent awards NOR received include the Architizer A+ Awards 2022 Best Young Firm Finalist, Archdaily Building of the Year 2022 Nomination, 2022 AD 100 Young Firm, WAFC 2022 Best Design Award and and 2023 Sanlian City for Humanity Award Finalist. NOR has also been invited to participate in many exhibitions including the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2022 and 2019 HK/SZ Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, the 2021 Beijing Urban & Architecture Biennale and the 2021 Beijing Design Week.

BOYUAN JIANG | Partner

Boyuan received his Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University after he graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Architecture) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

姜伯源 | 合伙人

姜伯源为纽约哥伦比亚大学建筑学硕士、香港中文大学社会科学（建筑学）学士。

JINGWEN WANG | Partner

Jingwen graduated with a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture at Tsinghua University.

王静雯 | 合伙人

王静雯为纽约哥伦比亚大学建筑学硕士、清华大学建筑学学士。

SHUO YANG | Partner

Shuo holds a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Civil Engineering), and a Bachelor of Art from the University of Iowa.

杨硕 | 合伙人

杨硕为纽约哥伦比亚大学建筑学硕士、爱荷华大学土木工程学及艺术学学士。