伊利街广场/StossLU事务所

发布于：2023-05-22 00:11:07

Erie Street Plaza

设计方：StossLU事务所

位置：美国

分类：广场

内容：实景照片

图片来源：StossLU事务所

项目规模：13000平方米

图片：9张

伊利街广场是一个小的城市广场，位于历史著名的威斯康星州密尔沃基第三区。这个面积为13000平方英尺的广场位于密尔沃基河和联邦隧道的交界处，密尔沃基河水最终流入密歇根湖。该广场是沿着密尔沃基沿河小道建造的公共空间的最后一环。小道是长3英里的人行道和自行车道，连接着密尔沃基城镇和新兴开发的第三区。

在该项目的初期设计中，伊利街广场的未来，包括它的使用者、功能、项目以及它的必要性都没有确定下来。城市环境也只是基础设施和工业环境，因此缺少潜在用户。该地区的地面本身就是一个停车场，但环境十分恶劣，尤其是从湖面来的狂风。

该项目主要包括3种混合生态学种类，横穿该地区一直蔓延到水面：放射状的小树林，布局灵活的田地和沼泽地。放射状的小树林位于城市的边缘，占据了植物群落的最高层。小丛林保护着广场的其它地区，不受冬天凛冽寒风的侵袭，同时也能透过小树林看到湖面的美景。小树林的布局与街道边缘平行，朝向湖面开放。

广场的主要元素，灵活布局绿地是混合的广场绿色区域，这里有整洁的路面和草坪，可以举办活动以及它用。广场是铺的都是预制铺路材料，这样而可以扩大绿地的多样性和灵活性。沼泽地可以为广场储备一定的雨水。同时也可以保护该读取的基础设施，保证该地区的繁荣。

译者：饭团小组

Positioned on the edge of the Federal Channel and Lake Michigan, Erie Street Plaza by StossLU is a new public space that serves to connect downtown Milwaukee to a newly revitalized outer zone of the city. It is part of a three mile long green corridor that promotes activity along the city’s reclaimed waterfront for public use. From the project’s inception, its form progressed under the principle of maximizing programmatic, environmental, and ecologic variety within the space while recalling the site’s industrial past and surroundings through use of three primary elements.

Viewing the park as a “flexible field” was key for Stoss in creating a design that could behave in a way that would parallel its ultimate use. That being said, aesthetic and built variety is attained within the park by the formal manipulation of three elements or “hybrid ecologies.” The radiant grove, the flexible field, and the steel marsh step down from the edge of the site towards the water. Each distinct zone houses varying program, views, and ecologic characteristics.

Incorporated into all three areas, a paver of variable density and orientation and a wood decking foster general movement throughout the site without acting as a restrictive barrier to specific activities. Luminous fiberglass seats prevalent throughout the park serve to act as nodes of density as lighting conditions change towards nightfall.

The highly variable ecologic opportunity provided by the site’s proximity to Lake Michigan present a further degree of flux within the site. The steel marsh, located behind a slitted corrugated steel bulkhead, allows for the penetration of water into the site in a way that can restrict access to its lower portion depending on water levels within the lake. This reclaimed soft-edge of the water restores a visual marker of the shifting environment and promotes ecological growth at the site.

Ultimately, the idea of fostering flexibility through varied ecology present within the design of Erie Street Plaza can be seen as a model for further urban reclamation projects that aspire to provide complex contextual and programmatic relationships with a clear organizational and material logic imbued within.