英国肯特Dover滨海大道

Dover Esplanade

位置：英国 肯特

分类：滨水

内容：实景照片

图片：6张

景观设计：Tonkin Liu
景观面积：3500平方米
景观时间：2010

这是由 Tonkin Liu设计的英国肯特Dover滨海大道。该项目经过设计师大刀阔斧的改造之后，已经与他们的社会欢迎，背景以及构造方式相去甚远，成为三个艺术品。新的滨海中心与2010年11月4日正式启动。
该项目占地3500平方米，耗资2万英镑，连接东西部码头。在东部，交叉连接到一个隧道，通往小镇中心广场；西部是一座艺术中心，可以进行水上运动。设计师通过解决每一个具体问题，地点，人物好和时间。通过独特的设计方法，调查使用者和当地情况，了解特性和潜力。利用充分的建筑语言，描绘温柔的波浪，给人“庇护之所”的感觉。结合海滨欺负的地形和山崖，创建了三个 “波浪”——道路、白色矮墙和照明系统。
三种波浪依照结构框架，对应海滨位置，每个项目都在物理和心理上，进行设计。

译者： 温冷清秋

Dover’s Esplanade has been given a radical overhaul by Tonkin Liu. The project has been conceived as three artworks that have grown out of their social and environmental context and the way they are constructed. The new Esplanade officially opens today, 4 November 2010.
Lifting Wave, Resting Wave, Lighting Wave was the winning scheme in a design competition organised by the Landscape Institute on behalf of Dover Harbour Board, Dover District Council, Kent County Council, SEEDA and English Heritage. The project has been part funded by Sea Change, a DCMS programme managed by CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) to drive cultural creative regeneration in Englandʼs seaside resorts.
The £2 million project creates a new 3,500 sq m promenade that connects the Eastern and Western docks. To the west of the Esplanade is a new Sea Sports Centre, to the east, a crossing linked to a tunnel that connects the seafront to the central town square. The Esplanade is backed by Waterloo Mansions, a listed 5-storey regency terrace dating from 1834. Being the first encounter with the town for many ferry and cruise passengers, the existing Esplanade was recognised as an important amenity for Dover residents but lacked a sense of place and failed to make an attraction of the seafront.
Tonkin Liu search for solutions that are specific to place, people and time. Through a unique design methodology called ʻasking, looking, playing, makingʼ they investigate the character and potential of place and make propositions that particular to that place and the people that will use it. The Dover Esplanade harnesses the architectural language of Doverʼs identity; the gentle nature of waves on the sheltered beach, the rhythmical sweep of the Georgian Seafront Terrace and the undulating topography of the White Cliffs of Dover. The creation of three new waves brings a new interactive dynamism to esplanade.
The Lifting Wave is a repeated formation of sculptural ramps and staircases made of pre-cast white concrete that rise and fall to connect the Esplanade to the lower shingle beach. The Lifting Wave combines ramps formed of miniature steps that create a lightcatching textured surface, with layered steps, spun like a pack of cards, The gentle ramps both allow access for all and the sinuous line brings dynamic forms to the beach. The experience of going to and from enriched by shingle gardens of local plant species between the undulating ramp and the new seawall coping. Rainwater is channeled along the slatted surface into a gully at the side of the ramp.
The Resting Wave is a sculptural retaining wall that runs the length of the Esplanade, providing bay spaces with seating sheltered from the south-westerly wind and orientated towards the sun. The wall is constructed by a shifting system of precast white concrete blocks formed in stacked timber moulds, which result in creating a textured surface similar to that of the sedimentary strata layers of Doverʼs White Cliffs. The surface is designed to create shadows, preventing the bright surface from causing glare and to prevent fly posting and discourage tagging. Recessed bays within the wall incorporate benches made of weathered oak, which has been shot-blasted and bleached to bring their materiality close to that of ocean driftwood. The Resting Waveʼs form tilts back and forth in a system of convex and concave forms, creating a rippled surface that catches the light. Undulating raised lawns follow the curving line of the wall providing a setting for picnics, with trees bringing seasonal colour and shelter from the sun.
The Lighting Wave is a sculptural line of white columns with artwork that complements the sweeping form of the sea wall and terrace, bringing improved amenity lighting and programmed lighting sequences to the Esplanade. Along the length of the Esplanade the columns rise and fall like the froth on the bubbling crest of a wave, designed to catch the light of the day as well as being a lighting feature at night. The Lighting Wave combines large flood lights ʻfor general illumination to the Lifting Wave, medium spot lights to pick up the undulating line of the Resting Wave and mini spot lights to illuminate the froth of the Lighting Wave. All are programmed to an intelligent lighting system that marks the passing of time with a lighting sequence on the hour and a simplified sequence on the quarter hour. The interactive low-energy LED lights have been specifically programmed to create a dynamic wave movement, bringing a sense of delight to the seafront.
The three waves each make contextual reference to place, responding to the environmental conditions of the seafront location; each fulfill social tasks in the form of physical provision and through psychological association; each explore themes at the scale of the city and at the fine scale of construction detail. By looking for inspiration in the context of Dover as well as the broader context of the sea, and by asking people and the place ʻwhat it wanted to beʼ Tonkin Liu have added something particular to the public realm.
The £2 million project is part of a wider £3,721,622 Sea Change grant entitled ‘Connecting Cultures’ awarded to Kent County Council to implement improvements to Dover town and seafront.

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