勇士广场花园

勇士广场花园
Warrior Square Gardens

Gillespies:Southend的勇士广场花园根据Gillespies的新设计重新开放。位于其商店和公共设施的中心——这一关键公共空间的再生是该镇复兴的基石。这个空间现在提供了一个充满活力的绿色空间，这个空间以前是一个被忽视的维多利亚晚期广场，现在已经成为反社会行为的天堂。从一开始，Gillespies就回应了历史布局的结构，重新组合了英国花园广场的熟悉元素，草坪、种植床、座位、照明、焦点和边界，但供当代使用。新的布局是围绕南区一些最好的树木精心设计的，周边的步行道和风景庆祝了这一原始石灰树以及雄伟的松树和雪松树的主要路线。
Gillespies: Warrior Square gardens in Southend have newly reopened following a new design by Gillespies. Situated in the heart of its shops and public amenities – the regeneration of this key public space is a cornerstone in the town’s revival. The space now offers a vibrant green space in what had previously been a neglected late-Victorian square, which had become a haven for anti-social behavior. From the outset, Gillespies responded to the structure of the historical layout, recomposing the familiar elements of an English Garden Square, with lawn, planting beds, seating, lighting, a focal point and boundaries, but for contemporary use. The new layout is carefully structured around some of the finest trees in Southend, with perimeter walks and views celebrating this dominant line of original lime trees as well as majestic Pine and Cedar trees.

Warrior Square Gardens

为了与广场维多利亚晚期的起源保持一致，Gillespies还试图捕捉索森德海滨景观和海滨长廊的精髓——因此，花园的边缘为街头表演者和聚会提供了场所，而其核心是一块简单灵活的开放草坪。花园周围保留了一个清晰的门槛，用多功能框架取代了杂草丛生的旧边界，标志着绿地的范围。这提供了一个新的广阔的入口广场，沿着花园北边的一个高架石灰路，有长凳和向南的一条花道。工作台端部的定制细节是通过喷丸和激光蚀刻创建的，为头顶的石灰树创建了独特的自然参照和公园主题。
In keeping with the square’s late-Victorian origins, Gillespies also sought to capture the essence of Southend’s seaside spectacle and promenade – so the edge of the Gardens offers areas for street performers and gathering whilst at its heart there is a simple and flexible open lawn. A clear threshold around the garden has been retained, replacing the old overgrown borders with a multi-functional frame around the Gardens, marking the extent of the green space. This offers a new expansive entrance square, an elevated limewalk along the northern edge of the Gardens with long feature benches and a floral walk to the south. The bespoke detailing of the bench ends was created though shot peening and laser etching to create a distinctive natural reference and park motif to the Lime trees overhead.

为了促进外部活动，并将花园的使用扩展到晚上，在木地板下设置了一系列管道和电源点，以提供独立的灵活性，支持社区使用。街道家具中还隐藏了内置的电源和投影装置，以便在中央草坪或入口广场举办室外活动，如沿石灰路的市场和社区活动。由于公共花园至关重要，因此为所有人建立了通道、安全和舒适的环境，最终设计包括了一些功能，如局部下降的路缘石，以便于从石灰路进行轮式连接。木长椅与常规扶手相结合，触感温暖，并融入了许多其他符合DDA的设计特征。
In order to promote external events and extend the use of the Gardens in to the evening, a series of ducts and power points have been located beneath the timber decking to provide discrete flexibility to support community uses. Inbuilt power and projection provision has also been hidden within the street furniture to enable outdoor events such as markets along the Limewalk and community events either on the central lawn or on the entrance square. As a public garden is was essential that access, safety and comfort for all was established and the final design includes features such as localised dropped kerbs to facilitate wheeled links from the limewalk. The timber benches are warm to the touch with regular armrests, and many other DDA-compliant design features have been incorporated.

简单的开放式草坪被活跃的边缘环绕，供al-fresco就餐、就座和散步，再次将勇士广场花园置于城市生活的中心。在绍森德全盛时期的精神下，镇上的居民和游客现在有一个邀请，要走在传统的英国花境中间，漫步在花园里的石灰树下的树荫下，在草坪上野餐。新的设计将这个关键的公共空间重新打造成一个目的地。
The simple open lawn surrounded by active edges for al fresco dining, seating and strolling once again places Warrior Square Gardens at the centre of town life. In the spirit of Southend’s heyday, residents and tourists to the town now have an invitation to walk in the middle of a traditional English floral border, stroll along the Gardens’ limewalk beneath a canopy of majestic Lime trees and picnic on the lawn. The new design recreates this key public space as a destination in its own right.

摄影师：科林·菲利普
Landscape architect: Gillespies
Client: Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, Renaissance Southend.
Location: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Gillespies design team leader: Steve Wardell, Managing Partner, Gillespies
Gillespies design team members: Jon Akers Coyle, Claire Fernley, Valter Vieira
Type of Project: Urban Square; Urban Park
Size (area): 100m x 30m
Completion: 2011
Photographer: Colin Philp

总成本：150万英镑
Design Team:
Structural Engineers: JMP
Architects of Café building: Magma
M&E consultant: Royal Haskoning
Quantity surveyor: Northcroft
Lighting consultant: Pinniger and Partners
Planting design: Growth Industry
Planning supervisor: Urban Practitioners
Main contractor: Jackson Civil Engineering Ltd
Funding: HCA
Total cost: £1.5 million