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乌斯特威尔德伍德广场
Wildwood Plaza, Uster

Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur工作室：如今，城市居民在城市边缘不断缩小的区域中寻找越来越强大的“景观”和“自然”体验。寻找新的语言，让我们沉浸在景观的感觉中，同时为娱乐用途提供功能空间，这已成为景观设计师的职责。因此，“软旅游”的类型重新思考了休闲空间。乌斯特市被三种不同的景观类型所包围，每种类型都有强烈的氛围和物质性：林地、冰川鼓和湖泊沼泽。对于一条环绕城市的新道路，我们的设计提出了一个圆形的空间，一个“观景镜”或环行镜，从中可以沉浸其中并观察这些不同的景观。第一期的三个林地广场刚刚完工。
Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur: Today the urban dweller searches for increasingly powerful experiences of „landscape“ and „nature“ in shrinking territories on the edge of town. It has become the charge of the landscape architect to look for new languages which at once immerse us in the sensations of landscape while providing functional space for recreational uses. Thus a genre of „soft tourism“ rethinks recreational space. The City of Uster is surrounded by three distinct landscape typologies, each with a strong atmosphere and materiality: woodlands, glacial drumlins and lake marshes. For a new path encircling the city our design proposes a circular void, a „looking glass“ or cyclorama from which to immerse oneself and observe these various landscapes. The first phase, three woodland plazas, has just been completed.

Wildwood Plaza, Uster

Writer John Fowles describes the „uncapturability“ of the woods. „(They) defeat view-finder, drawing paper, canvas, cannot be framed…words as futile, hopelessly too laborious … trees warp or create a variety of times: here dense and abrupt, there calm and sinuous“.

在我们的小场地上，三幅对比鲜明的林地图片相距仅几百米。缓慢行走，“在树林中”的不同体验让人感觉大自然是一台反应机器。树木会旋转、扭曲、生长和收缩，成为它们短暂状态的表现。第一个圆圈位于波德莱尔的“活柱神庙”，波德莱尔的“活柱神庙”顶极山毛榉树高大的银色树干和树冠下，它在受保护的山坡上经受住了飓风的袭击。第二个圆圈“进展中的空虚”被密集的先锋生长所包围，飓风袭击了裸露的东部斜坡。选择已留在空隙内的奇异树木。第三个圆圈表达了大自然变形和适应的奇异之美。许多风暴都留下了一幅启示录般的景象。榛子树的根球很浅，从地上被拔掉了，像倒下的巨型扫帚一样躺着。向四面八方射出的根茎。古老、巨大的根球创造了一种最奇特的地形。
On our small site, three vivedly contrasting woodland images lie just a few hundred meters apart. Walking slowly, strikingly different experiences of „being in the woods“ display nature as a machine of response. The woods turn, twist, grow and shrink, becoming an expression of their ephemeral conditions. The first circle lies beneath grand silver trunks and high crowns of the climax beech trees, Baudelaire‘s „temple of living pillars“, having survived hurricanes on the protected slope of the hill. The second circle, „emptiness in progress“, is enclosed by dense pioneer growth where hurricanes rased the exposed eastern slope. Select exotic trees have been left within the void. The third circle expresses the bizarre beauty of nature‘s deformation and adaption. Many storms have left an apocalyptic scene behind. Hazelnut trees, with their shallow root balls, torn out of the ground, lie like fallen giant brooms. Rhizomes shooting in all directions. Ancient, enormous root balls create a strangest topography.

Our projects explore place as catalyst of imagination, a dialogue between place and people. There is a long tradition in landscape architecture of creating spaces for us to lose ourselves in. This project explores this tradition.

Data:

Landscape:Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur, Zürich 
Location: Hegetsbergstrasse, Forhölzliwald Uster, Switzerland 
Project phases: Construction 2013-2014
Client: Stadt Uster
Photography: Daniela Valentini (dv), Robin Winogrond (rw)