City Park West
Architect: Pollard Thomas Edwards
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK | View Map
Project Year: 2019
Category: Parks/Gardens
Housing
城市公园西区是切姆斯福德的一个多用途社区，有600多个家庭，以咖啡馆、餐厅、工作场所、社区设施和公共艺术为特色。它位于火车站旁，包括5栋新的住宅楼，包括一座14层高的塔楼，4个新的公共广场，以及3栋翻新的建筑，其中一栋已经挂牌。
City Park West is a mixed-use neighbourhood in Chelmsford of more than 600 homes featuring cafés, restaurants, workplaces, community facilities and public art. Located by the railway station, it includes five new residential buildings, including a 14-storey tower, four new public squares, and three refurbished buildings, one of which is listed.
诺丁山创世纪的简报要求开发一个高密度的住宅类型，从一居室的特护公寓到三卧室的带屋顶露台和自己前门的新房。在645所住宅中，60%为市场租金，20%为共有，10%为社会住房，其余为负担得起的额外照顾。
The brief from Notting Hill Genesis called for a high-density development with a range of house types from one-bedroom extra-care flats to three-bedroom mews homes with rooftop terraces and their own front doors. Of the 645 dwellings, 60 per cent are for market rent, 20 per cent are shared ownership, 10 per cent is social housing with the rest providing affordable extra-care.
这种方法鼓励家庭、首次购房者和老年人，包括那些有额外照顾需求的人，在切姆斯福德市中心为自己建造一个房子。每家每户都有花园、露台或阳台，并且设计了宽敞的储物空间，并考虑了灵活性和未来适应性。公共区域旨在鼓励低碳生活方式，方便使用循环储存和回收设施。
This approach has encouraged families, first time buyers and older citizens, including those with extra-care needs, to make a home for themselves in the centre of Chelmsford. Each home has access to a garden, terrace, or balcony and has been designed with generous storage space and with flexibility and future adaption in mind. Communal areas are intended to encourage low carbon lifestyles with easy access to cycle storage and recycling facilities.
尽管建筑高度和表面纹理多种多样，但特定的元素——窗户、门、阳台和天篷——在城市公园西区保持着相似的外观和感觉。这给方案的外观带来了一个有意义的平衡。它避免了现代高密度住宅经常传递的单调氛围，但也没有给人一种“建筑动物园”的感觉。
Despite a variety of building heights and surface textures, specific elements - windows, doors, balconies, and canopies - maintain a similar look and feel throughout City Park West. This brings a meaningful balance to the scheme’s appearance. It avoids the monotonous vibe that modern high-density housing often transmits, but neither does it come across as an ‘architectural zoo’.
除了提供数百套新住宅外，城市公园西区还融合了各个城区一起。它它就像一块拼图，重新连接了当地的建筑环境，这些环境被多年来被双车道公路分割开来，这些公路定义了居民和游客如何通过切尔姆斯福德市中心。
As well as providing hundreds of new homes, City Park West blend various city districts together.It works like a jigsaw piece, reconnecting the local built environment which had been disjointed by dual-carriage highways which for years defined how residents and visitors alike moved through the centre of Chelmsford.
开发带来了更广泛的城市景观的一致性，从新的车站广场，对面的火车站入口，一直到南部中央公园的大型开放绿地。东面是县政府办公厅的市民区和切尔姆斯福德图书馆，西区是新兴的艺术和文化区。
The development brings coherence to the wider townscape, from the new Station Square, opposite the railway station entrance, through to the large open green space of Central Park to the south. It links to the civic quarter of County Hall and the Chelmsford library to the east as well and the burgeoning arts and cultural district of the West End.
步行路线和公共空间，通过喷泉和艺术品（一种交互式视频显示和雕刻在人行道、长凳和台阶上的文字）来定义六个不同的街区区域。对所有人开放，这些空间也可以作为居民的便利设施，并像建筑物一样定义城市公园西。
Pedestrian routes and public spaces, enhanced by fountains and artworks - an interactive video display and text carved into paving, benches, and steps - define six distinct neighbourhood areas. Open to everyone, these spaces also act as amenity for residents and define City Park West as much as the buildings do.
三栋翻新的建筑进一步丰富了场所感。二级上市的安妮奈特大厦（Anne Knight Building）曾是贵格会的会客之家，如今已成为一家餐厅，另有两家当地宝石店现在提供办公空间和顶楼公寓。这种新旧结合、公共领域和公共艺术在这个无车区的结合，强化了城市公园西区设计时考虑到人的感受，也是一个居住和游览的地方。
Three refurbished buildings further enrich the sense of place. The Grade II listed Anne Knight Building, a former Quaker meeting house is now a restaurant with two other local gems now offering office space and penthouse apartments. This mix of new and old, public realm and public art in this car-free neighbourhood reinforce the feeling that City Park West is designed with people in mind, of a place to live and visit too.
