大卫·奇普菲尔德建筑事务所于 2021 年在上海美丰洋行大楼的改造中，于其侧立面增设一道拱廊。面朝巷道与内庭的拱廊却因其历史语境、空间限制和功能需求而略显局促。切线团队为第二届外滩建筑节：上海野餐重新构想了这一建筑片段：一条低矮狭长的步道从面朝圆明园路的一扇封闭窗口生长而出，蜿蜒穿行于障碍物之间，最终占据并延展了拱廊空间。
这一临时构筑物作为真正意义上的社区空间唤醒了拱廊未被实现的公共潜力。它借鉴了那些承载荫蔽、聚集与包容性的古典拱廊，如鲁切拉宫宫墙下供市民休憩的长凳，生动诠释着建筑与公共生活的交融。又如同克里斯多与珍妮-克劳德的“漂浮码头”，这个装置在不可抵达的空间之间建立起短暂联结，将缺席转化为存在，邀请人们在此驻足探索。
步道与既有建筑保持着审慎的距离：它们足够亲近以产生对话，却绝不强加干预。在这个充满张力的间隙中，被遗忘的拱廊以静默姿态舒展开来。
户外公共阅读研讨活动“触摸凉廊”由切线组织，将集体朗读呈现为声音、身体与文本构成的城市组合体。三场活动在重新构想的凉廊旁举行，每场邀请 10 位参与者即兴朗读经过重新编排的文本片段，探讨作为具身城市实践的步行、上海的文学现代性以及拱廊与走廊的城市性。在来自上海的青年学者陈君楠、庄沐杨、陈飞樾带领下，这些朗读将重新激活残存空间，化为一座承载共同注意与声响存在的城市舞台。朗读的文本公开投影，吸引路人加入，营造出介于参与与戏剧化之间的开放性阈限。
团队介绍
《切线》是一个写作和设计实践并举的研究型团队。《切线》关心建筑和所有建筑声称、曾经声称或仍未声称的与其相牵连的领域，以及这些牵连本身。《切线》的成员包括安太然、罗旋、苏畅、王一凡、魏铭路、左嬴。
陈君楠
上海纽约大学交互媒介艺术助理教授，文字影像创作者。
庄沐杨
同济大学艺术与传媒学院助理教授，研究方向为艺术理论、电影研究、视觉文化。
陈飞樾
沙丘研究所创始人，宁波诺丁汉大学建筑系讲师，设计师和写作者。
The forgotten Loggia of the Andrews & George Building, restored by David Chipperfield Architects in 2021, sits uneasily on a secondary façade, facing an alley and courtyard rather than proudly overlooking the street as tradition dictates. It feels like an incomplete architectural gesture, both inviting and constrained by historical context, spatial limitations, and pragmatic needs. For the second edition of RAM assembles: Shanghai Picnic, Tangent Essays imagined what this fragment might have become: a narrow, low platform that symbolically emerged from an unopened window on Yuanmingyuan Road and wove through obstacles to occupy and extend the loggia space.
This temporary structure envisioned the loggia’s unrealized potential as a truly public, communal threshold. It recalled architectural precedents where loggias offered shade, gathering, and generosity, such as Palazzo Rucellai, whose accessible benches embodied civic presence and public engagement. Like Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Floating Piers, it created a fleeting connection between inaccessible spaces, transforming absence into presence and inviting moments of pause and exploration.
The platform held a deliberate distance from the existing fabric: intimate enough to engage, yet never to impose. In this charged in-between, the forgotten loggia extended itself as a quiet gesture.
Organized by Tangent Essays, In Search of a Loggia was a three-part outdoor reading in-public seminar series that enacted collective reading as an urban assemblage—of voices, bodies, and texts. Each session took place beside a reimagined loggia, inviting 10 participants to read aloud—without prior preparation—carefully excerpted and recomposed textual fragments that reflected on walking as an embodied mode of urban practice, the literary modernity of Shanghai, and the urbanisms of arcades and corridors. Led by invited early-career scholars based in Shanghai—Chen Junnan, Zhuang Muyang and Chen Feiyue—these readings and discussions reanimated a residual site into an active, resonant urban stage of shared attention and sonic presence. Texts were projected to invite passersby into the orbit of the event, creating a porous threshold between focused participation and ambient theatricality.
Team Introduction
Tangent Essays is a research-driven collective where writing and design converge in thoughtful practice. Tangent Essaystakes an interest in architecture and all the areas that architecture claims, has claimed, or has yet to claim to be in touch with. Members include An Tairan, Luo Xuan, Su Chang, Wang Yifan, Wei Minglu, and Birdia Zuo.
Chen Junnan
Assistant Professor in Media Theory, teaching at NYU Shanghai, Department of Interactive Media Arts. She is also a screenwriter and filmmaker.
Zhuang Muyang
Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Media at Tongji University in Shanghai, his research centers on art theory, film studies, and visual culture.
Chen Feiyue
Architect and writer, co-founder of Dunes Workshop, Teaching Fellow at University of Nottingham Ningbo, Department of Architecture and Built Environment.
