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MVRDV的 “光核 Inaura” 方案赢得了迪拜市中心豪华酒店+住宅塔楼的设计竞赛。该项目在迪拜天际线中占据关键位置，独拥可清晰饱览哈利法塔与迪拜喷泉的绝佳视野。在周围诸多的摩天大楼之中，210米的 Inaura 在高度上并不算出众。MVRDV的设计团队另辟蹊径，在塔楼层间嵌入一颗璀璨明珠般的发光椭圆体，以奇巧的方式在迪拜的都市丛林中脱颖而出。

MVRDV has won the competition to design Inaura, a luxury hotel and residential tower in Downtown Dubai. Inaura occupies a critical position in the Dubai skyline, and is clearly visible from – and has its own views towards – the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Fountain. Yet at 210 metres tall, the project finds itself among taller neighbours, which all compete for attention. The design therefore takes a different approach to claiming its place in the city: a luminous, jewel-like orb nestled in between the building’s floors, creating a novel and curious way to steal the attention of onlookers.

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在迅速崛起为全球知名高层建筑城市的过程中，迪拜从不缺少夺人眼球的奇观塔楼。从奇幻扭曲的形态到精雕细琢的冠顶，众多项目试图在这座拥有世界第一高楼的城市天际线中留下印记，结果却各有参差。项目坐落于迪拜市中心与商业湾之间的战略要地，基于这一优势显著的地理位置，开发商 Arada 提出了设计的核心命题："如何在这片世界闻名的天际线背景下塑造一座极具标志性的塔楼？"

In its rapid rise to become a globally renowned high-rise city, Dubai has not lacked for attention-grabbing spectacle buildings. From fanciful, contorted shapes to intricately detailed crowns, many projects have sought to make their mark in a skyline dominated by the world’s tallest building, to varying degrees of success. As part of their brief, developer Arada considered the site’s context, including its strategic position in between Downtown Dubai and Business Bay, and the resulting visibility in the city. Among their design requirements, they therefore posed the question: “How might an iconic tower be designed within the context of one of the most renowned skylines in the world?”

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概念生成 Concept

MVRDV 的设计摒弃了高度竞赛的常规策略，以引人入胜的巧思取代浮夸的视觉奇观：在塔楼约四分之三高度处抬升楼板，嵌入一颗珍珠般的发光卵形结构。凭借巧妙又含蓄的姿态，在高大耀眼的建筑群中散发出迷人的吸引力。

Rather than continuing a game of one-upmanship, MVRDV’s design offers a new approach that privileges intrigue over spectacle: the top portion of the refined, rectilinear tower is lifted to reveal a special feature, a glowing ovoid structure inspired by a pearl at around three-quarters of the tower’s total height. Thanks to its position and the almost coy manner in which it is embedded among the tower’s floors, this feature succeeds in capturing attention among its taller, flashier neighbours.

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这个点睛之笔同时具备实用功能，其中设置了一间空中酒廊。卵形结构内部设有贵宾空间，同层其余区域则规划为可饱览哈利法塔全景的俱乐部，让住户与酒店宾客沉浸式感受迪拜的城市脉动。

This highlight feature also serves a functional purpose, hosting the building’s Sky Lounge. The ovoid structure itself hosts a VIP space, while the rest of the floor features a club with spectacular views of the Burj Khalifa and its surroundings – creating a place where residents and hotel guests can feel truly connected to the energy of Dubai.

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"MVRDV 创始合伙人 Jacob van Rijs 说道："Inaura 为迪拜天际线注入了一种精致与含蓄兼具的气质。这不仅是一种视觉表现，更是极具实用性的设计：塔楼采用高效的矩形平面，摒弃了无效的‘虚荣高度’和繁复的塔冠。空中酒廊巧妙地组织并串联不同的功能区域，低区呼应城市街景，高区衔接天际线，标志性的椭圆体恰如天地之间的地平线。"

“Inaura brings a new character to the Dubai skyline that hasn’t really been explored before – something that is exquisite yet simultaneously demure, in a way”, says MVRDV founding partner Jacob van Rijs. “Beyond its visual affect, however, it is also a tremendously practical design: the tower has efficient, rectangular floorplans, and there is no wasted ‘vanity height’ that you see in towers with intricate crowns. The Sky Lounge instead serves to organise and communicate the building’s programme, attuned to the city at its lower levels and to the skyline at the top, with its signature feature forming a horizon in between.”

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塔楼底部是一个四层的裙楼，一层是餐厅与大堂，其上三层为健身空间。裙楼屋顶配备无边际泳池，上方楼层计划开放一座水疗中心。塔楼低层区域设置了101间客房的酒店和105套一至三居室的"都市公寓"，而空中酒廊之上的七个楼层将打造九套四至六居室的奢华"空中别墅"。

The building’s four-storey plinth hosts a restaurant and lobbies on the ground floor, with a three-storey gym above. On the roof of the plinth is an infinity pool, with a spa occupying the floor above. Above this in the lower part of the tower are the 101-room hotel and 105 one- to three-bedroom “Urban Apartments”, while the seven floors above the Sky Lounge are home to nine luxurious four- to six-bedroom “Sky Villas”.

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塔楼的立面设计以两米进深的环绕式阳台构成鲜明的水平带，有效遮挡强烈日光。其他立面元素遵循"从城市到天空"的主题，呈现从裙楼到塔顶的渐进变化：平面上，底部利落的直角转角渐变为顶部的圆角；裙楼立面反射街景的镜面玻璃随着高度上升愈发通透；塔楼北侧阳台在延伸至顶部时向外扩展，为宽敞的空中别墅提供更多户外空间，尽享哈利法塔的壮丽。

The design’s façade is characterised by strong horizontal bands created by two-metre-deep wraparound balconies, which help to protect the building’s interiors from strong sunlight. Other elements of the façade follow the “city to sky” motif, with a number of features that gradually change from the plinth to the top of the tower. The crisp, rectangular corners at the tower’s base become rounded at the top; mirrored glass that reflects the city at the base becomes increasingly transparent as it reaches the sky; and on the north corner of the building, the balconies flare outwards towards the top of the building, providing more outdoor space for the larger Sky Villas and taking full advantage of the views of the Burj Khalifa.

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赢得设计竞赛后，MVRDV 将继续承担项目的设计监理工作，与迪拜本土的Dewan建筑与工程公司协作推进项目。室内设计将延续MVRDV的设计理念，实现 Arada 公司聚焦健身、康养与生活方式的开发愿景。

After winning the design competition with their proposal, MVRDV will continue working on the Inaura project as design guardian, with Dubai-based Dewan Architects + Engineers taking over as lead consultant on the project. Inaura’s interiors will also be designed to a concept by MVRDV which builds upon Arada’s vision of a development focused on fitness, wellness, and lifestyle.

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MVRDV建筑规划事务所由Winy Maas、Jacob van Rijs和Nathalie de Vries创立于荷兰鹿特丹，致力于为当代的建筑和都市问题提供解决方案。MVRDV的创作基于深度研究与高度协作，各领域的专家、客户及利益相关方从项目初期一直参与设计的全过程。直率而真诚的建筑、都市规划、研究和装置作品堪称典范，让城市和景观朝向更美好的未来发展。

MVRDV的早期项目，如荷兰公共广播公司VPRO的总部，以及荷兰阿姆斯特丹的WoZoCo老年公寓，都获得了广泛的国际赞誉。MVRDV250余位建筑师、设计师和城市规划师在多学科交叉的设计过程中，始终坚持严格的技术标准和创新性研究。MVRDV采用BIM技术，公司内拥有正式的BREEAM和LEED顾问。MVRDV与荷兰代尔夫特理工大学合作运营独立智库和研究机构The Why Factory，通过展望未来都市，为建筑及都市主义提供发展议程。

MVRDV was set up in 1993 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. MVRDV engages globally in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A research-based and highly collaborative design method engages experts from all fields, clients and stakeholders in the creative process. The results are exemplary and outspoken buildings, urban plans, studies and objects, which enable our cities and landscapes to develop towards a better future.

Early projects by the office, such as the headquarters for the Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO and WoZoCo housing for the elderly in Amsterdam lead to international acclaim. 250 architects, designers and other staff develop projects in a multi-disciplinary, collaborative design process which involves rigorous technical and creative investigation. MVRDV works with BIM and has official in-house BREEAM and LEED assessors. Together with Delft University of Technology, MVRDV runs The Why Factory, an independent think tank and research institute providing an agenda for architecture and urbanism by envisioning the city of the future.