为了回应内部数字艺术展览对光线的严格控制，建筑师完全取消了对外的开窗，并在出入口设计了双重嵌套空间，令人们无从窥视它内心的秘境。在完全黑暗的内部空间，变幻的光影成为观者唯一可以依赖的事物。

无开窗的立面令建筑的尺度似乎无从捉摸——人们在面对它的时候，缺失了衡量层数、高度的重要标尺，这提示曼陀罗之丘可以成为介于雕塑与建筑之间的状态，也引发了建筑师进一步探索的兴趣。

As internal multi-media art exhibitions have strict controls on illumination, the architect completely removed outward windows and designed a double-nested space at the entrance, making it impossible for people to see the building’s inner secrets from outside. In the total darkness of its interior space, visitors rely only on the changing lights and shades. 

Without windows on the façade, the scale of the building seems to be difficult to judge. When facing it, visitors lack an important yardstick to measure its heights and number of stories. This indicates that the Mandalas Pop-up Digital Art Museum can exist in a form between that of a sculpture and a building, which has also given the architect motivation for further exploration. 

▲ 无开窗的立面 © Nan Xueqian

▲ 室内植物与灯效 ©Nan Xueqian

▲ 空间内部灯光效果 © Nan Xueqian

曼陀罗积木 

Mandala Blocks

组成曼陀罗之丘体量的全部体块，可被拆分重组为一座“坛城”——这正呼应了对坛城沙画的一种解读：当沙画完成的一刻，时空中的“坛城”也真正建立起来。

如同一套可以随意重组的积木，曼陀罗之丘的六个金色角部体块可以类似榫卯的方式，嵌套组合为与一个完整的方体。

All the blocks that make up the Mandalas Pop-up Digital Art Museum can be split and reorganized into a “dKyil-‘khor” (an inner palace or Buddha realm in Chinese Buddhism, translated as “mandala” in English). This echoes an interpretation of the Mandala Sandpainting: when a sand mandala is completed, a “dKyil-‘khor” is also established in space and time. Like a set of blocks that can be reorganized in many ways, the building’s six golden corner blocks can be nested into a complete cube with structures similar to mortise and tenon joints.

▲ 生成过程 ©One Take Architects

▲ 体块细节 ©One Take Architects

建筑外侧的若干踏步，高度被刻意调整，可倚可坐可攀，失去作为衡量建筑尺度的功能，这令它有了更多诙谐的趣味，与严肃沉闷的城市空间的形成鲜明对比。

All the blocks that make up the Mandalas Pop-up Digital Art Museum can be split and reorganized into a “dKyil-‘khor” (an inner palace or Buddha realm in Chinese Buddhism, translated as “mandala” in English). This echoes an interpretation of the Mandala Sandpainting: when a sand mandala is completed, a “dKyil-‘khor” is also established in space and time.