英格兰战士广场花园/Jon Akers Coyle

发布于：2023-05-14 22:48:43

Warrior Square Gardens

位置：英国

分类：花园

内容：实景照片

设计团队：Jon Akers Coyle, Claire Fernley, Valter Vieira

图片来源：Colin Philp

项目规模：300平方米

图片：18张

索森德战士广场花园经Gillespies更新设计后将重新开放。这个公共空间位于商店与公共设施区域的中心位置，它的再生是城市复兴的关键基石。以前它是个被忽视的广场，建于维多利亚时代后期，并逐渐成为反社会行为的避风港，而现在是一个充满活力的绿色空间。

设计一开始，Gillespies就先考虑了它历史的结构布局，重新安排了英格兰花园广场、草坪、种植床、座椅、照明、焦点和边界，以供当代人使用。新的布局以一些最优秀的索森德树木精心围绕着周边散步道，树木以原始欧椴树以及雄伟的松树和香柏木为主。为了符合广场的维多利亚时代后期的起源，Gillespies也试图领会索森德海滨景观的内涵，所以花园的边缘的核心领域为街头艺人和人群聚会提供了一个简单和灵活开放的草坪。

花园保留了一个清晰的入口，它杂草丛生的边界被花园周围多功能的设计取代，并且成为绿色空间的标志着。此时入口成为了新的广阔广场，长椅从花园北部边缘的行道树步道延伸到南边的花丛走道。公园内简单、开放的草坪边缘使用率很高，人们常常将这里当做户外餐饮的场所，在座椅上休息，在步道上漫步。战士广场花园渐渐成为城市生活的中心。

译者：饭团小组

Warrior Square gardens in Southend have newly reopened following a new design by Gillespies. Situated in the heart of its shops and public amenities – the regeneration of this key public space is a cornerstone in the town’s revival. The space now offers a vibrant green space in what had previously been a neglected late-Victorian square, which had become a haven for anti-social behavior.From the outset, Gillespies responded to the structure of the historical layout, recomposing the familiar elements of an English Garden Square, with lawn, planting beds, seating, lighting, a focal point and boundaries, but for contemporary use.

The new layout is carefully structured around some of the finest trees in Southend, with perimeter walks and views celebrating this dominant line of original lime trees as well as majestic Pine and Cedar trees.In keeping with the square’s late-Victorian origins, Gillespies also sought to capture the essence of Southend’s seaside spectacle and promenade – so the edge of the Gardens offers areas for street performers and gathering whilst at its heart there is a simple and flexible open lawn.

A clear threshold around the garden has been retained, replacing the old overgrown borders with a multi-functional frame around the Gardens, marking the extent of the green space. This offers a new expansive entrance square, an elevated lime walk along the northern edge of the Gardens with long feature benches and a floral walk to the south.The bespoke detailing of the bench ends was created though shot peaning and laser etching to create a distinctive natural reference and park motif to the Lime trees overhead.

In order to promote external events and extend the use of the Gardens in to the evening, a series of ducts and power points have been located beneath the timber decking to provide discrete flexibility to support community uses. Inbuilt power and projection provision has also been hidden within the street furniture to enable outdoor events such as markets along the Limewalk and community events either on the central lawn or on the entrance square.

As a public garden is was essential that access, safety and comfort for all was established and the final design includes features such as localised dropped kerbs to facilitate wheeled links from the lime walk. The timber benches are warm to the touch will regular armrests, and many other DDA-compliant design features have been incorporated.

The simple open lawn surrounded by active edges for al fresco dining, seating and strolling once again places Warrior Square Gardens at the centre of town life. In the spirit of Southend’s heyday, residents and tourists to the town now have an invitation to walk in the middle of a traditional English floral border, stroll along the Gardens’ limewalk beneath a canopy of majestic Lime trees and picnic on the lawn.