蒙特利尔Frères-Charon广场/Affleck

发布于：2023-05-22 00:15:31

Square des Frères-Charon

设计方：Affleck + de la Riva建筑事务所

位置：加拿大

分类：广场

内容：实景照片

项目规模：1800平方米

图片：22张

此次的广场设计项目使用简单、精炼和极简主义的建筑语言来创建以圆形和圆柱形式为主要景观形式的广场，广场中包括一个风格粗犷的野趣花园和一个风车造型的公园展示馆。为了与花园相互映衬，照明系统采用了彩色的变幻的灯光，以暗示四季变化。

在这个具有150多年历史的场地中，为响应重新振兴这片工业老区的号召而建立的des Frères-Charon广场是一个全新的公共休闲场所。新型的广场为当地居民提供给了宽敞舒适而自豪的户外空间。

des Frères-Charon广场是多学科跨界合作的结果，它的设计经历了一个创新的协商过程。每一个关键程序或关键路径的设计都是由一个跨学科的设计团队共同确定的，这个团队包括了优秀的艺术家、建筑师和景观设计师。这个团队目标是通过跨越传统学科界限的合作共同解决场地问题而不是将整个项目划分为不同的方面然后再由各个领域的专家单独解决。

设计团队还通过各种通讯工具的使用鼓励和促进公民参与设计过程，公民被鼓励去表达他们关于这一广场的意见。他们通过网络咨询了解公民的期待的新广场的形式，然后在设计方案上予以体现，普通公民也因此对广场充满亲切感。

译者：饭团小组

The project uses a simple, refined, and minimalist architectural language to create a dialogue between circular and cylindrical forms including a garden of wild grasses, the vestiges of the windmill and a park pavilion in the form of a belvedere-folly. Complementing these gestures, the lighting scheme proposes a chromatic garden that alludes to the changing seasons.

Providing Identity, Civic Pride, and Generous Public Space
Built as a response to the urban revitalisation of a disaffected industrial sector, Square des Frères-Charon is an entirely new public amenity in a space that is more than 150 years old. The new square provides identity, civic pride, and generous outdoor areas for all-season public use.

The Project as a Platform for Research in Design Methodology
Square des Frères-Charon is the result of a rich inter-disciplinary collaboration and an innovative consultation process. The project innovates both in a team approach that encourages members to cross professional boundaries and in the guarantee of public input resulting from the use of novel citizen-friendly communication technologies. Before a specific program was determined or a critical path defined, the city organized a trans-disciplinary design team including an artist, an architect and a landscape architect. The team objective was to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, collaborate, and converge on common ground rather than divide and distribute tasks according to habitual professional domains.

The team employed a variety of communications tools to encourage and facilitate citizen involvement in the design process. Above and beyond more conventional forums such as roundtables and public presentations, a citizen-friendly communications channel was set up on Old Montreal’s web portal to serve as a privileged medium for exchange between the public and the design team. Citizens were encouraged to get informed, to voice their opinions on the future of the square, to comment on the viewpoints of others appearing on the site, and to remain abreast of project progress and developments via the website.

The results of the web consultation provided the design team a portrait of how the existing space was perceived and used, as well as an expression of the expectations and desires of the citizens for the new square. The results formed the basis of the project program and the scheme that was developed was directly linked to public input. Citizens thus became complicit in the creation of a new identity for Square des Frères-Charon.

Connecting Users to their Surroundings
By focussing on the experience of the contemporary city and urban lifestyles, the design team explored concepts from a user’s point of view and initiated a connection with the immediate surroundings. Square des Frères-Charon’s street level public domain was carefully designed to insure it is comfortable, safe, and wheel-chair accessible. Sustainable initiatives include the planting of local species of wild grasses which take a significant load off the municipal irrigation system and the use of durable Quebec granite for hard landscaping and the cladding of the park pavilion.

Achieving Significant Contributions to Quality of Life and Local Tourism within a Modest Budget Considering the quality of life it provides, Square des Frères-Charon’s 2,2M $ construction cost was a profitable municipal investment. Affordable amenities such as an interpretive program, extensive vegetation and a recycled park pavilion allowed the project designers to control costs while providing significant benefits to residents and the local tourist industry. While modest in scale and budget, the square is an essential component of McGill Street’s larger network of historic spaces and a key element in Montreal’s cultural tourism branding strategy.
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