Waterford Viking Triangle

维特福德维京三角
Waterford Viking Triangle

GKMP建筑师：该项目包括重新配置沃特福德维京三角洲的城市空间，它是美国最古老和最重要的城市居住区之一。它的公共建筑和历史纪念碑给这些城市空间提供了强大的物理和象征意义。然而，公共领域在景观、街头家具、标志和服务方面的质量低下，都损害和破坏了建筑、历史和公民身份。它已经成为汽车的场所，而不是人们的地方。
GKMP Architects: The project comprises the reconfiguration of the urban spaces in the Waterford Viking Triangle one of the oldest and most significant urban quarters in the country. Its public buildings and historical monuments give a strong physical and symbolic importance to these urban spaces. However, the poor quality of the public domain in terms of landscaping, street furniture, signage and services were all damaging and undermining the architectural, historical and civic identity. It had become a place for cars rather than for people.

该项目旨在了解三角洲未充分利用的公共空间，统一它们，并巩固其作为城市公民集会场所的公共功能。该项目是一个人工景观，它使背景而不是建筑作为对象，一个连续的条件，其中新旧元素和材料相结合，强调不同的个人和集体居住。虽然具体的背景，地点和材料，该项目的特点是一个积极的不确定性，就使用。它的空虚经历了一个季节或一个世纪的变化。对于未知剧本来说，这是一个稳健的舞台布景。
The project seeks to understand the underused public spaces of the Triangle, unify them and to consolidate their public function as civic meeting places for the city. The project is a constructed landscape; it makes background rather than building-as-object, a continuous condition in which old and new elements and materials combine to underscore diverse individual and collective inhabitation. Though specific in context, place and materials, the project is characterised by a positive uncertainty with regard to use. Its emptiness assumes change, across a season or a century. It is a robust stage set for an unknown play.

三角形中有四个主要公共空间。第一个是在雷金纳德的塔，在那里拆除20世纪60年代的办公楼为这个地区创造了一个新的入口空间。现有的花岗岩处理围绕塔延伸，以腾出空间为Viking Longboat在夏季的几个月。搬上贝利的新街，下一个空间是Friary广场，在那里，拆除停车位和栏杆，可以为街道活动和活动提供一个宽敞的区域。该区域铺设在大型花岗岩板，使一个浅色的表面和一个长花岗岩长凳靠墙的Friary。
There are four principal public spaces within the Triangle. The first is at Reginald’s Tower, where the demolition of the 1960s office building makes a new entrance space for the area. The existing granite treatment around the Tower is extended to make space for the Viking Longboat during the summer months. Moving up Bailey’s New Street, the next space is Friary Square where the removal of the parking and railings enables the making of a generous area for street activities and events. The area is paved in large granite slabs, making a light-coloured surface and one long granite bench against the walls of the Friary.

大教堂广场形成了三角形的中心部分。为此，树木已经从大教堂的立面上被拆除，沿着北边的一条长凳排成一排。这样做的效果是，对北侧的建筑物给予一定程度的保护，并允许在广场上进行活动，而不会对这些住宅产生不利影响。一个新的石灰石平台是由梯田、台阶和入口坡道组成的。主教的宫殿广场对于通往维京三角洲的购物中心有着特别重要的意义。一座新石灰岩梯田建造在主教的东端，作为一个动画空间。这个空间被提升到主教的宫殿，有公共座位和博物馆咖啡馆的露台空间。
Cathedral Square forms the centre-piece of the Triangle. To this end the trees have been removed from along the Cathedral façade and a line of benches is made along the northern edge. This has the effect of giving a degree of protection to the buildings on the northern side and allowing activities to happen in the Square without having a detrimental effect on these residences. A new limestone platform is made to the Deanery frontage with a terrace, steps and access ramp. Bishop’s Palace Square is of particular importance as a gateway to the Viking Triangle from The Mall. A new limestone terrace is constructed at the eastern end of the Bishop’s Palace that acts as an animated space. This space is raised to the level of the Bishop’s Palace and has public seating as well as terrace space for the Museum Café.

基础数据
Basic Data

项目：沃特福德维京三角
Project: Waterford Viking Triangle

建筑师：GKMP建筑师事务所
Architects: GKMP Architects

地点：沃特福德维京三角，爱尔兰沃特福德市
Location: Waterford Viking Triangle, Waterford City, Ireland

设计年：2012-2013
Design year: 2012-2013

建设年份：2013-2014
Year of construction: 2013-2014

面积：4032平方米
Area: 4,032 sq.m

图像学分：Alice Clancy摄影，GKMP建筑师画
Image credits: photography by Alice Clancy, drawings by GKMP Architects