《味觉之舌》装置,法国 / 等建筑

2025-12-18 16:57:26景观设计,装置设计,景观设计 , 现代风格
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味觉之舌

每个日常物件是否都拥有一条隐形的舌头? What if every object has an invisible tongue?

 

柱子的舌头、窗户的舌头、花坛的舌头——它们以各自的方式静默地感知与品尝空间。雨后青草的湿意、轻风的清鲜、跳跳糖的瞬间爆裂、融化奶酪的绵密质感,皆化为延展味觉边界的通感片刻,提醒我们:味觉或许并不限于人体的舌头。

 

A column’s tongue, a window’s tongue, a flowerbed’s tongue—each quietly sensing the world around it, extending its own way of tasting space. The wetness of grass after rain, the umami of a mild breeze, the electric burst of popping candy, or the velvety surrender of melting cheese each becomes a moment of shared synesthesia, a reminder that taste might extend far beyond the body.

 

▼项目概览,Overview of the installation

 

 

 

▼展览入口,Exhibition entrance

 

 

在以“饕餮(Gourmandise)”为主题的 2025 年法国蒙彼利埃生动建筑节(Festival des Architectures Vives)中,等建筑(Studio Deng)作为竞赛优胜团队之一,受邀为 Hôtel de Rozel 的庭院进行装置介入设计。这个由历史石墙围合的紧凑居民庭院,需要一种既能激发感知与参与、又不破坏其尺度与氛围的设计方式。基于“隐形舌头”的设想,等建筑提出:每个日常物件都可能储存其独特的“味觉记忆”。装置《味觉之舌》由此将这一概念具象化,使窗户的舌头在空间中显影。

 

▼动态分析,Dynamic analysis

 

 

For the 2025 Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, Studio Deng was selected as one of the winning teams to activate the courtyard of Hôtel de Rozel. The site—a compact residential courtyard framed by historic stone—called for an intervention that could spark curiosity without overwhelming its intimate scale. Building on the question of the invisible tongue, Studio Deng imagines every object harboring its own silent repository of flavor memories. The Tasting Tongue brings this idea to life, transforming the courtyard window into an immersive sensory fiction.

 

▼装置介入庭院,Installation activate the courtyard

 

 

▼激发感知与参与,An intervention that could spark curiosity

 

 

 

一条金属舌头自窗台垂落,延展至庭院中心,末端轻轻翘起,迎向入口轴线。舌面以镜面不锈钢制成,捕捉光影、天气与庭院中的活动变化。其上生长着 130 株粉色味蕾,灵感来自真实味蕾的显微图像,由原用于仓鼠窝的粉色毛毡制成。每一种柔软而俏皮的形态象征甜、酸、苦、咸四种基本味道,既可触摸和进一步塑形,又能激发联想。

 

▼轴测图,Axon diagram

 

 

A metallic tongue flows down from the windowsill and unfurls toward the center of the courtyard, its reflective surface mirroring shifting light, movement, and weather. From it grow 130 taste buds in four types, inspired by micrographs of real taste buds. Each soft, whimsical form—crafted from pink felt originally designed for hamster nests—represents a flavor: sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. Their humble origin lends an unexpected tenderness, inviting touch and sparking imagination.

 

▼装置细部,Details of the installtion

 

 

 

《味觉之舌》邀请访客挑选属于自己的味蕾插入金属舌面,用身体品尝空间。由此,观者以各自的方式丰富了装置的味觉图谱——儿童将味蕾弯折成新形状,居民多次回访观察其变化,陌生人分享彼此添加的味道。这些自发的行为让庭院在一周的开放时间里成为富有童趣的公共交流场所。

 

The Tasting Tongue invites visitors to select their own taste bud and insert it into the metallic surface. This ritualistic gesture amplifies the act of tasting and allows visitors to use their bodies to sense the space. Through this interaction, visitors contribute their own interpretations of flavor, participating in a collective sensing of the courtyard, where objects and humans share their sensory imagination to create a living archive of taste memories. Children bent the buds into new forms; neighbors returned to watch its evolution; strangers compared the “flavors” they added. These spontaneous behaviors briefly turned the courtyard into a communal stage.

 

▼参观者与装置互动,Visitor interaction with the installation

 

 

 

建筑节结束后,装置被移展至法国阿维尼翁一座 14 世纪修道院的内厅,于 Architecture en Fête 中继续探索“隐形舌头”在历史建筑语境中的回应。两次展出结束后,所有粉色毛毡组件与镜面金属板均捐赠给公益机构 Children’s Relay,用作艺术教育材料,使舌头的旅程得以在社区中延续。

 

The installation later traveled to the chamber room of a 14th-century monastery during Architecture en Fête, exploring how the development of the “invisible tongue” transforms and responds to a historic space. After both exhibitions, all pink felts and metal sheets were donated to Children’s Relay as art education materials, extending the journey of the tongue.

 

▼用作艺术教育材料,As art education materials,

 

 

▼透视图,Perpective drawing

 

 

Project name: The Tasting Tongue

 

Project type: Installation

 

Design: Studio Deng

 

Contact e-mail:meichenwang14@gmail.com

 

Design year:2024-2025

 

Completion Year:2025

 

Leader designer & Team:Studio Deng (Meichen Wang, Qicheng Wu)

 

Project location:Montpellier, France

 

Gross built area: 10㎡

 

Photo credit: Paul Kozlowski; Studio Deng

 

Clients: Festival des Architectures Vives

 

Materials:mirror metal sheet, felt