大公园：每个人的公园
Grand Park: The Park for Everyone
大公园的设计目标不亚于通过景观设计和建筑来表达洛杉矶的多元文化多样性。这个公园把一个12英亩的停车场变成了“人人共享的公园”，一个重新定义了洛杉矶市中心的社区聚会场所。格兰德公园在洛杉矶重要的市政建筑和文化标志之间建立了重要的联系——从市政厅到格兰德大道，将公园与音乐中心、迪斯尼音乐厅和博大博物馆连接起来。
The design of Grand Park has no smaller aim than to express the multicultural diversity of Los Angeles through landscape design and architecture. The park transformed a 12-acre space filled with parking lots into “The Park for Everyone,” a community gathering place that has redefined Downtown Los Angeles. Grand Park creates an important link between important Los Angeles civic buildings and cultural icons — from City Hall to Grand Avenue, connecting the Park with The Music Center, Disney Concert Hall, and the Broad Museum.
该项目的特色是修复了历史喷泉和新的互动水功能、新草坪和花园、狗跑、游乐场和步行环路。定制场地家具采用明亮的洋红色设计，被称为“公园粉红”，在定义公园的标识方面发挥了重要作用。这些家具包括独立的长椅、咖啡桌和椅子，营造出南加州社区后院的感觉。
The program features a restored historic fountain and new interactive water feature, new lawns and gardens, a dog run, a playground, and a pedestrian loop. Custom site furniture was designed in a bright magenta that has come to be known as “park pink,” playing a large role in defining the park’s identity. The furniture creates a community Southern California-backyard feeling with the inclusion of freestanding benches, café tables, and chairs.
公园的布局灵感来源于古德的同色线投影，这是一种创新的绘图过程，用于以最小失真在二维中描绘三维世界。为了代表定居在洛杉矶的多种文化，格兰德公园以世界六大植物王国中的每一个为特色——开普敦、北方、新热带、古热带、澳大利亚和南极。这些地区的独特条件有利于不同的植物群，但它们都在洛杉矶易于适应的气候中繁衍生息。
The park’s layout takes inspiration from Goode’s homolosine projection, an innovative mapping process for depicting the three-dimensional world in two dimensions with minimal distortion. To represent the many cultures that have settled in Los Angeles, Grand Park features species from each of the world’s six floristic kingdoms – Cape, Boreal, Neotropical, Paleotropical, Australian, and Antarctic. The unique conditions in each of these regions favors different flora, but they all flourish in L.A.’s climate of easy adaptation.
Website: www.rios.com/projects/grand-park/
Design:
Rios – Landscape and Architects of record;
Water Feature Redesign – Fluidity
Project location: Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Design year: 2006
Year Built: 2012
Manufacturer of urban equipment: Chairs, Benches, Tables – Designed by Rios and manufactured by Janus et Cie.
