边缘公园
The Edge Park
一个多世纪以来,威廉斯堡海滨一直被工业及其遗迹所占据,这使得它在很大程度上禁止公众进入。新的分区正在通过增加密度和强调滨水通道来改变与水边的公共界面。“边缘”公园旨在将人们带到河边,并将生态系统与社区结构联系起来。作为新住宅塔楼和公共海滨公园的景观设计师,我们面临的挑战是确保塔楼不会成为阻碍公众进入东河和曼哈顿的象征性围栏,而是作为通往河流的通道,通过走廊提供与标志性天际线的视觉连接。
The Williamsburg waterfront has been dominated by industry and its relics for over a century–making it largely off limits to the public. New zoning is changing the public interface with the water’s edge by increasing density and emphasizing waterfront access. The “Edge” park seeks to bring people to the river and link the ecosystem with the fabric of the community. As landscape architect for both the new residential towers and the public waterfront park, we have the challenge of ensuring that the towers act not as symbolic fences blocking public access and views of the East River and Manhattan but as gateways to the river with corridors providing visual connection to the iconic skyline.
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我们的计划通过使用桥墩来重新定位河两岸的景观,特别是朝向帝国大厦的方向,从而将河两岸统一起来。该设计强调水边的力量对抗,并鼓励公众使用。在这里,城市网格和河流的生态系统交汇、交融和碰撞:道路变成了一条步行绿道,车库上方是倾斜的草坪,桥墩从公园深处缓缓伸入水中,石头河岸与混凝土隔板形成对比。陆地和水之间边界的模糊将滨水区的利益扩展到内陆社区。
Our plan unites both sides of the river by using the piers to re-orient views across – especially directed toward the Empire State Building. The design emphasizes the confrontation of forces at the water edge and encourages public use. Here, the city grid and the river’s ecosystem converge, mingle, and clash: the road turns into a pedestrian greenway, a garage is surmounted with a sloping lawn, piers reach gently into the water from deep within the park and stone riverbank contrasts with concrete bulkhead. This blurring of the boundaries between land and water extends the waterfront benefits inland to the community.
私人和公共空间、建筑和生态的综合和分离需要与社区团体、开发商、市政府和工程师进行一系列复杂的合作。这个以前的工业用地现在有50%的透水性,种植了许多本地物种,并获得了该项目LEED银级的一部分。公园是项目批准的关键部分,维护协议已与城市公园部门协商。工程兵团和环境保护部对新码头进行了广泛审查。
The synthesis and separation of private and public space, and architecture and ecology required a complex series of collaborations with community groups, the developer, the city government, and engineers. This former industrial site is now 50% permeable, planted with many native species and part of the LEED Silver rating for the project. The park was a critical part of the approvals for the project, and maintenance agreements were negotiated with the City Parks Department. The new piers underwent extensive reviews by the Corps of Engineers and the Department of Environmental Protection.
Landscape Architecture: W-Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Complete Date: March 2011
Images Credit: Alison Cartwright