Roll Out the Rail Carpet by ElliottJocic
位置：加拿大 汉密尔顿
内容：实景照片
图片：6张
景观设计：ElliottJocic
景观时间：2012
这是由ElliottJocic设计的加拿大汉密尔顿切断的铁轨铺装。
汉密尔顿位于安大略湖西岸，是一座中型城市，曾经以钢铁称著，然而近年来在努力摆脱旧工业城市的锈迹。毗邻前CNR火车站北部边缘，位于James街的商业和艺术区，在连接市中心和滨海湾，利用独特的铁轨图案，铺装的人行路面，格外引人注意。设计师利用回收的铁轨，切断并排列出“地毯式”的花纹，嵌入人行道上。这样的装饰十分别致，在回顾历史的同时，展现出别样的艺术风格。
译者： 温冷清秋
Hamilton is a medium sized city on the western end of Lake Ontario working to shrug off its reputation as an ailing steeltown. While metropolitan Hamilton is growing, the downtown exhibits many of the same conditions that afflict de-industrializing cities. A notable exception to this trend is the corridor along James Street North connecting the core and the harborfront. In the last decade this stretch has become the locus of a uniquely inclusive and animated culture economy that hosts a consistently lively monthly street party.
Roll Out the Rail Carpet is a ground plane intervention that announces and intensifies the unique social character of Hamilton’s James North neighbourhood. Located at the intersection of James and Murray Street West, at the northern edge of the James Street commercial and arts district and adjacent to the former CNR train station, the site occupies the historic entry point for newcomers to the city.
As a “carpet” of recovered rail sections arrayed in a geometric pattern and embedded into the sidewalk, the project demarcates a permeable space that operates either as a room in which things occur, or a stage that is viewed. Through the decorative repositioning of recycled steel, the project seeks to acknowledge the historic, though diminishing, importance of that material in Hamilton while marking the ongoing evolution of the area.
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