凤凰城的城市空间花园/AECOM公司

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Civic Space Park | Phoenix USA | AECOM

设计方：AECOM公司

位置：美国

分类：花园

内容：实景照片

项目规模：10 926.51234048平方米

图片：9张

美国亚桑尼亚州的凤凰城菲尼克斯并不是因为它的优秀的公共开放空间而出名，相反的，它经常被嘲讽为是美国下等城市的代表。但是此次新的城市景观的建立改变了人们的看法，它就是2009年建成向公众开放的城市空间公园。这个新的公园有2.7英亩大，位于菲尼克斯的市中心，为当地的居民和游客提供了一种全新的都市享受，它将智能都市设计，绿色空间，多功能结构，交互式LED屏幕，公众艺术，甚至是低碳设计完美的结合在一起。
公园的设计非常注重低碳理念的运用，地面的铺装采用多空混凝土的铺装形式，有利于雨水收集和过滤，并促进地下水补给。公园遮阳结构上安装着大量的太阳能板，可以产生75千瓦的能量，足够供给8-9户住户和公园照明和用电的需求。而且当树木和植被达到成熟的时候，公园70%以上区域都可以被大树的浓荫所覆盖。这里的大部分树木都是落叶植物，在冬季落叶的时候，亚利桑那州的温暖的阳光和气候一样可以产生舒适宜人的环境。
城市空间花园还在联系城市周边系统中扮演着重要的角色。在它附近，颇具历史纪念意义的中央大楼也被翻新作为一个公共的会议室和展览空间，以吸引更多的人们到该区域举行活动。而且花园中较低的区域中有一个下沉的咖啡馆和零售空间，沿街的开放空间是最受欢迎的活动举办地。公园对面就是菲尼克斯市中心地铁轻轨的中央车站，这为城市空间公园与大城市之间直接的交通联系提供了方便。公园西南角的独具特色的景观大草坪上还有可以在上面漫步的挡土墙、活动设施、休息长椅等等，这一切都为市民享受悠闲的时光提供便利条件。

景观时间：2009年
图片来源：Damian Holmes

译者：饭团小组

Not known for public space, Phoenix, Arizona is often cited as an example of American suburban sprawl. But a new story of successful urbanism has emerged from this desert cityscape with the opening of Civic Space Park. This public space sits on a 2.7-acre site in downtown Phoenix, offering residents, workers, students, and visitors a new kind of urban typology, bringing together smart urban design, green space, multiple shade structures, an interactive LED lighting show, public art—and a lesson in low carbon design.
AECOM’s Phoenix-based Design + Planning studio guided the project from visioning sessions and masterplanning of the park, through complete construction observation. Work included extensive public meetings with the community to create a park that accommodates a variety of users and events, alongside a major public art commission, and various interactive water features and lighting elements.
One of the park’s most exciting features is a field of white columns beneath an undulating canopy that come alive at night with light and color from an array of LED animations. Inspired by lightning touching down in an Arizona summer monsoon storm, the lighting show responds to the movements of visitors. An interactive water feature is another favorite activity in the park, especially for children. The design of the park is low-carbon. Porous concrete paving and landscape design provide for stormwater collection and filtration, allowing every drop of water that lands on this site to recharge surrounding groundwater. Solar panels on the top of the park’s shade structures generate 75 kilowatts of power, enough to power 8-9 residential homes and offset the park’s lighting and electrical needs. When its trees and vegetation reach maturity, more than seventy percent of the park will be shaded from the desert sun. Most of these trees are deciduous in order to take advantage of the Arizona sunshine and mild climate in the winter months.
The park also includes an art installation from internationally recognized artist Janet Echelman titled, “Her Secret is Patience,” named after a phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson and inspired by elements of Arizona nature.
Contextually, the park plays an important role in the surrounding urban systems. The adjacent, historic 424 Central Building has been refurbished as a public meeting and exhibition space that will draw events and people to the area, with a sunken café and retail space on a lower patio that afford active frontages with the open space, acting as a magnet for activity. Additionally, facing the park is Downtown Central Station on Phoenix’ METRO Light Rail, providing direct transit linkages between Civic Space Park and the wider city. Students from neighboring Arizona State University (ASU) quickly began enjoying the space as an outdoor room for studying or relaxation.
The southwest corner of the park features turf landscape forms with pedestrian-scale retaining walls, games tables, benches, and densely spaced shade trees – all of which are inviting for leisurely uses.
At the park’s opening ceremony, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon called the opening “a rebirth of the entire area.” Gordon went on to say that the park was “the best use of our civic resources I think our city could invest in, and it’s certainly the best park in the state.”