蓝花楹广场

发布于：2023-05-28 17:19:41

Jacaranda Square, “The Everyday Stadium”

位置：澳大利亚

分类：广场

内容：实景照片

图片：9张

蓝花楹广场又名“天天运动场”，它是悉尼2030年奥林匹克公园规划中第一个落成的公共空间项目，旨在将奥运遗产和文化重新聚焦在一个美丽绿色的城镇中心。
该广场始建于2004年，由澳派工作室与McGregorWestlake建筑事务所和Deuce设计公司共同合作设计，赢得了悉尼奥林匹克公园中心的新公共空间竞赛第一名。
获奖项目的主题是设计一个供人们静态休闲和市民聚会的新都市公园。公园的主题“天天运动场”就意味着这个新绿地是奥林匹克精神的传承，同时也是设计概念的表述。共由3个元素组成：一个大型中央开放空间，围墙和座椅，以及大型的遮荫设施，它是由一个建成的遮阳篷和高大树冠的乔木组成。
项目设计中广泛使用砖块，部分原因是场地接近霍姆布什砖窑的旧址，且砖材的运用能使公园产生动态的、充满质感和色彩缤纷的效果。广场外围墙体使用彩色釉面砖，与澳洲Gertrudis地区的风格互相融合，呈现一种鲜明的视觉感受。

景观设计：澳派景观工作室
景观面积：4000平方米
景观时间：2008年
图片来源：Simon Wood, Kyal Sheehan

译者：饭团小组

Jacaranda Square, “The Everyday Stadium” is the first new public space in Sydney Olympic Park to sit within the framework of the Sydney Olympic Park 2030 Master Plan. The master plan sets a new urban framework that is intended to refocus the Olympic legacy of event and spectacle into a finely grained, sustainable town centre.
The Jacaranda Square project began in 2004, as an invited design competition, which was won by a group of like-minded professionals ASPECT Studios, McGregor Westlake Architecture, and Deuce Design representing the fields of landscape architecture, architecture and graphic design respectively.
The winning concept, titled “The Everyday Stadium”, was both an ironic nod to the 2,000 Olympics legacy and a precise description of the design concept. The morphology of a typical stadium gave the scheme it’s enduring diagram, ie. An orthogonal edge of seats and walls (the stands), framing a large informal open space (the field), and protected by long perimeters of shade – one built and the other trees (the canopies).
In contrast to the stadium buildings and left over spaces of Olympic Park, Jacaranda Square is a mid scaled rectangular space of 50 x 80metres, defined by the orthogonal street grid that is setout around the finest Olympic building, the train station (designed by Hassell). The Square is situated on the station axis and is being framed on it’s long sides by new commercial buildings which define it as the pivotal public space of the new town centre.
After winning the competition, the design team was engaged to develop the construction documentation. The design concept of “The Everyday Stadium” with it’s 3 elements of edge, centre and canopy, was the guiding framework throughout.
The edge is defined by a low masonry wall set out orthogonally to the surrounding street grid giving the space a strong rectangular form. From the street the wall appears as a rich and dramatic frame, laid out in a finely grained ‘brixel pattern’ of green glazed and face bricks that define the edges and entries to the park. The project likes to think it has introduced a new word to the English lexicon ‘Brixel’ meaning a pixellated pattern made up of bricks.
On the inside of the wall are concrete seats made up of a series of modular precast-concrete lounge suite sections, which provide a resting place for “every-body”. The seats are made up of 2 moulds and are designed to telescope and step along the 155 lineal metres of perimeter wall. They have a playful and personable scale and make an active and occupied edge to the inside lining of the square. The concrete seat sections create small nooks and larger lengths of seating that provide an articulated elevation to and from to the central space of the square.
The central open space is well defined by the finely calibrated and constructed edge and sits as free form and dynamic element within it. In part a response to the iconic vault of the station building, a radial geometry was chosen to set out all the major elements within the orthogonal geometry of the walls. The grass ovoid centre, the curved path around it, the radial brick pattern which makes up the path, the inside sweep of the canopy above and the circular cafe that holds up the cantilever of the café, are all unified by the curving geometry. In section the field of grass rises as a slight mound giving the central space greater prominence and creates outlooks over the square from it. The mound and the radial geometry of the central space give a broad scale and generous sweep to the space.
The canopy, 5 metres high and 50 metres long, with it’s sweeping interior curve, acts as a unifying element to the whole space. Set out at the height of the springing point of the station vault, the horizontality of the canopy, acts as a foil to the grander scale of the station building.
The shade canopy, like a stadium structure was designed with a minimum of columns therefore necessitating large cantilevers. It’s soffit of polychrome green mesh modules echoes the modularity of the “brixellated” walls below and compliments the grove of native trees, which frame the north side of the park. Under the shade canopy, adjacent to the main entry and circulation path, the small circular plan of the café, with it’s red soffit, offers a condensed warm spot to the square.
Brick was used extensively in the project, for it’s fine grained tactile quality and for it’s cultural, place making associations to the adjacent Homebush Brickpit. As well as the polychrome glazed bricks, the majority of the interior hardscape is made up of recycled bricks. Recycled bricks were sourced from a neighbouring suburb – many of which would have originated from the adjacent brick pit.