佐佐木重塑上海苏州河

佐佐木重塑上海苏州河
Sasaki Reshapes Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek

佐佐木被选为在中国上海重新设计苏州河国际比赛的获奖团队。苏州河（又名吴淞江）历史上是上海最重要的水路之一，但近几十年来遭受了难以形容的污染和忽视。在亚洲开发银行的资助下，这条水道现在变得干净，准备重新发挥其作为城市中心的作用。
Sasaki was selected as the winning team for the international competition to redesign Suzhou Creek in Shanghai, China. Suzhou Creek (also known as the Wusong River) was historically one of Shanghai’s most vital water routes, but in recent decades suffered from unspeakable pollution and neglect. With a grant from the Asian Development Bank, the waterway is now clean and ready to reclaim its role as a centerpiece of the city.

数千年来，早在上海发展成为一个全球大都市之前，苏州河就占据了整个景观的主导地位。随着该地区的定居，数百年来人类的操纵试图遏制苏州河，将其从流域的一个关键特征转变为一条用于运输货物和材料的高度工程化的运河。苏州河通常被认为是上海现代工业化的主要推动力之一。然而，对于最近几代的上海人来说，苏州河被认为是一片荒地，它最终导致了一场公共卫生危机，严重影响了城市中最贫困和最脆弱的人群。
For thousands of years, long before Shanghai evolved into a global metropolis, Suzhou Creek dominated the landscape. As the region was settled, centuries of human manipulation sought to contain Suzhou Creek, transforming it from a key feature of the watershed into a highly engineered canal used to transport goods and materials. Suzhou Creek is often credited as one of the primary drivers of Shanghai’s modern industrialization. For recent generations of Shanghainese, however, Suzhou Creek is remembered as a wasteland, culminating in a public health hazard that disproportionately affected the city’s poor and most vulnerable.

Sasaki Reshapes Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek

2015年，邻接小溪的两个城区合并在一起。苏州河的南岸位于富裕的、国际化的静安区，北岸位于社会地位低下的闸北区，它是一条身体和精神的鸿沟，凸显了当代上海的二分法。这种人为的管辖权障碍也限制了该市全面思考这条小溪的能力。然而，随着这一新的行政变更，上海市中心12.5公里长的黄金海岸线现在已经统一。佐佐木计划利用市辖区合并作为催化剂，不仅用于发展，还用于更新一度被剥夺权利的滨水区，以解决城市结构中巨大的物理和社会差距。
In 2015, two city districts abutting the creek combined. With the south bank in the wealthy and cosmopolitan Jing’an District, and the north bank in the socially underrepresented Zhabei District, Suzhou Creek was a physical and mental divide that underscored the dichotomy of contemporary Shanghai. This artificial jurisdictional barrier also limited the city’s ability to think about the creek holistically. With this new administrative change, however, 12.5 linear kilometers of prime waterfront in the center of Shanghai were now unified. The Sasaki plan capitalizes on the merger of municipal districts as a catalyst not simply for development, but for the renewal of a once disenfranchised waterfront to address vast physical and social gaps in the city’s fabric.

看到释放苏州河潜力的机会，佐佐木专注于将上海的滨水区扩展到邻近苏州河的城市街区。苏州河的这一公共用途的开垦创造了一个城市/文化分水岭，由休闲海滨边缘和充满活力的城市临街区划定。通过增加新的混合用途开发项目，加强与上海中央火车站和M50艺术区等附近目的地的联系，孤立的街区充满活力。
Seeing the opportunity to unleash Suzhou Creek’s potential, Sasaki focused on expanding the perceived waterfront of Shanghai into the urban blocks adjacent to the creek. This reclamation of Suzhou Creek for public use creates an urban/cultural watershed that is delineated by recreational waterfront edges and a vibrant urban frontage. Isolated neighborhoods are energized by adding new mixed-use development and strengthening connections to nearby destinations such as Shanghai’s central railway station and the M50 Arts District.

Sasaki计划避免了将小溪视为纯粹线性体验的先入为主的想法，将水道的奇点重新组织为多个城市节点和公园，锚定了小溪沿线的节奏时刻。公园之间的间隔不超过500米，庆祝了城市对更多面向社区的开放空间的长期渴望，并允许小溪与周围社区动态互动。在这些街区内，上海独特的乡土建筑和错综复杂的步行网络得以保留，只需极少的战略干预，就可以将其转变为新的综合用途目的地，同时保留其原有的特色。沿河的历史仓库被重新定位为文化目的地，以进一步加强该地区新兴的艺术。
By avoiding the preconceived idea of the creek as an exclusively linear experience, the Sasaki plan reorganizes the singularity of the waterway into multiple episodes of urban nodes and parks that anchor rhythmic moments along the creek. Parks are spaced no more than 500 meters apart, celebrating the city’s long-held desire for more community-oriented open space, and allowing for the creek to dynamically engage with the surrounding neighborhoods. Within these neighborhoods, Shanghai’s unique vernacular architecture and intricate pedestrian networks are preserved with minimal, strategic interventions that transform them into new mixed-use destinations while retaining their existing character. Historic warehouses along the creek are repurposed as cultural destinations to further strengthen the area’s burgeoning arts.

佐佐木还重新评估了苏州河的生态潜力，考虑到其作为景观基础设施的未实现能力。在空间允许的情况下，引入湿地梯田，以恢复原生栖息地，减轻偶尔洪水的影响，并为人们提供接近水的机会。当由于条件紧张而不可避免地需要防洪墙时，曾经实用的基础设施被改造成城市艺术画廊，将垂直结构重新想象成画布，以庆祝当地人才。
Sasaki also reevaluated the ecological potential of Suzhou Creek, considering its unrealized capacity to serve as landscape infrastructure. Wherever space allows, wetland terraces are introduced to restore native habitat, mitigate the impacts of occasional flooding, and provide opportunities for people to get close to the water. When the need for a floodwall is unavoidable due to tighter conditions, the once utilitarian infrastructure is transformed into an urban art gallery that reimagines the vertical structure as a canvas to celebrate local talent.

“我们为苏州河开发的理念充分体现了佐佐木在全球范围内的协作能力。我们的城市设计师、建筑师、景观设计师和生态学家在两大洲的办公室内共同努力，创造出一种世界级的方法，将河流沿线数英里的复杂性统一起来，”佐佐木校长迈克尔·格罗夫（Michael Grove）说。该项目的首席景观设计师张涛补充道：“我们的眼光超出了预期，调查也超出了预期，因为我们知道重大发现并不包含在项目边界之内。其结果是一个大胆而合理的愿景，将多样的社会和生态功能与平衡的空间构成相结合。”
“The ideas we developed for Suzhou Creek speak to the incredible power of Sasaki’s collaborative, global practice. Our urban designers, architects, landscape architects, and ecologists worked together across offices on two continents to create a world-class approach that unifies miles of complexity along the creek,” said Sasaki Principal Michael Grove. Tao Zhang, the project’s lead landscape architect, added “We looked beyond what was given and investigated more than expected, because we knew that great discoveries were not contained by the project boundary. The result is a bold yet plausible vision that integrates diverse social and ecological functionality with a balanced spatial composition.”

Data

Architects: Sasaki
Client: Shanghai Jing’an Urban Planning Bureau
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Courtesy of Sasaki Associates