比肩高迪，这位西班牙建筑大师倾其一生建造了一座迷宫城堡（一）
A Gaudi-like Spanish Architect Who Spent All His Life Building a Labyrinthine Edifice (1)
说到手游，不知道你是否还记得2014年大热的《纪念碑谷》？
In terms of mobile game, have you ever remember the megahit Monument Velley that went prevalent in 2014?
这个在推出后的两年内被下载了5000万次的爆款手游，被誉为“最美游戏”，精致唯美的画风和梦幻般的视觉体验，让玩家光是停留在页面就已经心情愉悦了。
This vogueish game, as it were being downloaded for 50 million times in two years since its launch, is known as ‘the most beautiful game’ – aesthetic fine drawings topped with visionary experience rendering players joyfully lingering on the game page alone.
在游戏界面中，我们不难看出这些建筑充满了错觉艺术，既真实又虚幻，就像一个灵动的艺术品一般。这也是这款游戏最为特别的地方。如今再看这款游戏，仍觉得美轮美奂，很难被超越。
In the game interface, one can easily find the art of architectural illusions, both real and imaginary, quick-witted craft alike being its most special part. Even today when we look at this game, we still feel stunned by its unlikely-to-be-transcended features.
实际上，《纪念碑谷》的创造者在设计这款游戏时，受到了荷兰图形艺术家M.C.埃舍尔作品的影响。这位在20世纪艺术界独树一帜的艺术家，凭着惊为天人的视觉化图形作品，至今仍被许多学者所研究和参考。而《纪念碑谷》就搭建在埃舍尔的错视构图法之上。
In fact, the design of Monument Valley was initiated via the influence of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic artist, one of the greatest in the 20th century made his name known uniquely for his visualized graphs that are being studied and referred to by many scholars. And Monument Valley was built on Escher’s Trompe-loeil.
左图为埃舍尔的视觉作品脱离空间逻辑，将二维变三维，将不可能变可能。都是埃舍尔作品的特点。
The left photo shows an Escher’s visual work detaching the spatial logic to turn the 2D into the insurmountable 3D – this is the characteristics of Escher's works.
《互绘的手》（hands）1948
《重力》（Gravity）1952
《观景楼》（ Belvedere ）1958
《瀑布》 （Waterfall ）1962
当然，无论是《纪念碑谷》还是埃舍尔的视觉作品，即使带给了我们视觉错觉，但实质上都只是停留于平面的二维图像。但在西班牙，却有一位艺术家，用自己大半生的时间搭造了一个真实的“错觉”建筑。
Even if we are given visual illusions out of Monument Velley or Escher’s works, we don’t factually leapfrog but stay at the 2D planer graph. In Spain, however, there was an artist who spent most of his life building a real ‘illusionary’ mansion.
神秘，简约，梦幻，浪漫是这所宅院给予我们的第一印象。它似乎是一个不属于现实的空间，又像一个充满感官刺激的原始洞穴。
Our first impression about the house: mystical, simple, dreamlike and romantic. It seems to be a space that does not belong to reality but a pristine cave full of sensory stimulation.
这所建筑来自于加泰罗尼亚艺术家Xavier Corbero之手，这位西班牙国宝级的雕塑家于2017年去世，而他留给世人最壮观的作品，就是这个占地3000平米的私人住宅了。
This house was built by Xavier Corbero, a Catalonian artist and Spain national-level sculptor who died in 2017, and the most spectacular work he left to the world is this 3,000 square meter private mansion.
Xavier Corbero
它不仅仅是艺术家的住宅，更是一个精妙绝伦的艺术品，一个充满着设计感的美学城堡。正如Corbero本人所述：“我总是想追求诗意，不管是雕塑，建筑还是空间，建成之后，一定要有诗意，我认为任何东西都应该如此。”
It is not just the artist’s residence, but a piece of art exquisite beyond compare, and a castle radiant with ideas, like Corbero comment it himself, “I have ever been in pursuit of poetic qualities, be a sculpture, a building or a space – all ought to have such a taste after completion, and any other things too.”
低调的Xavier Corbero其实被誉为西班牙加泰罗尼亚地区继高迪之后最重要的艺术家之一。
The low-key Xavier Corbero is actually known as one of the most important artists in Catalonia after Gaudi.
安东尼奥·高迪 Antonio Gaudi
他的作品有着超现实主义的奇幻，又有着属于西班牙的浪漫唯美，连萨尔瓦多·达利也是他的欣赏者之一。
His works featured surrealist fantasies and enriched Spanish romance, his admirers including even Salvador Dali.
值得一提的是，达利是第一个购买Corbero作品的人，两人在相识后迅速成为挚友。而 Corbero作品里的超现实风格，也与达利有着一定的联系。
What’s worth mentioning is Dali was the first person who had patronized Corbero’s and became his best friend ever since. The surreal style in Corbero's works could also be more or less related to Dali.
1969年，在西班牙房地产低靡时期，Corbero看中了这片本是废弃工厂的土地，买下后就迅速开始了府邸的建造，原本他只是想拥有一个可以摆放他雕塑作品以及放松心情的地方，没想到越建越起劲，由最初的独栋变成了一所建筑群。
During the Spanish real estate downturn in 1969, Corbero took a fancy to a deserted factory land where he started to build a house after a quick purchase. He was planning to have only a relaxing place for his sculptures but his construction never stopped until it became a complex.
整个宅邸中有着超过300座拱门，还有无数根大大小小的柱廊，由中世纪风格的石质墙体组成，
The whole mansion is composed of stone walls of medieval style with numerous colonnades and 300 arches in total.
而几何感强烈的混凝土结构则给予参观者大胆而富有创造性的构思。另外，数不清的各式楼梯也是建筑的一大特点，螺旋，径直，甚至不通向任何终点，就像埃舍尔画中的建筑一般神秘莫测。
The building’s concrete structure casts a very strong geometric sense to arouse bold and creative conceptions of the visitors. Countless staircases, spiral, straight, cul-de-sac, are also mainly featured like Escher’s paintings that are just mysterious and unpredictable.
整座宅邸共有9座相互连接的建筑，以及十几个大大小小的庭院，外围是由石质的围墙环绕，宅邸的主建筑里有着10间卧室以及10间卫生间，地上五层，地下三层。狭窄的过道通向临近的其他建筑。宅内处处摆放着大量的绿植，加上光影的点缀，说是城堡也一点也不为过。
There are nine buildings that are interconnected to one another, a dozen of small-and-big courtyards, surrounded by stone walls. In the main building of the mansion laid 10 bedrooms with bathrooms, which has five floors on the ground and three layers of basement. Long narrow passages are found leading to adjacent buildings. To say it as a castle is not exaggerating, for it is placed with a great number of green plants adorned with shadowy sunlight.
最让人感到惊艳的，应该就是其中一个叫做“The Tower”的建筑了，这个贯穿六层楼的塔楼被称为“世界上最大的万花筒”。
The most stunning view would be an architecture ‘The Tower’ running through six stories that is described as the ‘biggest kaleidoscope in the world’.
圆形天井加上八角窗的设计，如同一个巨型的万花筒，这是Corbero最满意的一处设计。每当天气晴好时，外界的阳光透过玻璃窗折射进来，散发出神秘而迷人的光影。这也正符合了Corbero追求诗意的创作初心。
And it is indeed like a giant kaleidoscope considering its designed circular patio with octagonal windows, one of Corbero’s most satisfactory designs. Every sunny day when sunshine refracts through glass windows, the whole space is permeated with mysterious but charming lights, a kind of poetic feelings Corbero intended to create.
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[中文原文及图像来源：艺术与设计、今日头条、百度]
