米德兰铁路广场

米德兰铁路广场
Midland Railway Square

地点实验室：铁路广场是在原米德兰铁路车间内新建的公共广场。这些工作室是19世纪晚期的工业建筑群，经过精心修复，为新时代创造了一个城市村庄。保留其真实的工业感觉，新的城市村庄将成为一系列住宅、商业、健康、教育、娱乐和创意产业用途的家园。
PLACE Laboratory: Railway Square is a new public square constructed in the former Midland Railway Workshops. The Workshops are a cluster of late 19th century industrial buildings undergoing thoughtful restoration to create an urban village for a new era. Retaining its authentic, industrial feel, the new urban village will be home to a range of residential, commercial, health, education, entertainment and creative industry uses.

该遗址的特征和历史的关键是调车场，这是铁路广场的所在地，是操纵机车、工人集会、仪式和政治集会的主要区域。调车场已被确定为具有特殊意义的场所，将作为一个开放的公共空间予以保留，以诠释和庆祝现场的历史，并为米德兰和东部地区提供一个主要的公民聚会和节日空间。
Key to the character and history of the site was the Shunting Yards, the site of the Railway Square, which was the main area for manoeuvring locomotives, worker gatherings, ceremonies and political gatherings. The Shunting Yards have been identified as a place of exceptional significance and are to be preserved as an open public space that will interpret and celebrate the history of the site and provide a major civic gathering and festival space for Midland and the eastern region.

Midland Railway Square

该空间被PLACE Laboratory设计为一个新的当代公共空间，通过将重轨基础设施改造成新的社会基础设施，诠释了旧址的用途。在MRA和PLACE Laboratory领导的设计团队的指导下，铁路广场正在被改造成米德兰的一个新的城市中心，提供一个目的地公共空间，周围有餐厅、咖啡馆、酒店、公寓和翻新的文物建筑。
The space has been designed as a new contemporary public space by PLACE Laboratory, interpreting the sites former use by transforming heavy rail infrastructure into new social infrastructure. Under the guidance of the MRA and a design team lead by PLACE Laboratory, Railway Square is being transformed into a new civic heart for Midland, providing a destination public space surrounded by restaurants, cafes, a hotel, apartments and refurbished heritage listed buildings.

广场的设计将讲故事和场所激活结合在一起，为当地人创造了一个诱人的日常使用空间，以及一个能够为更广泛的社区举办大型活动的高性能活动空间。
Set against the historical backdrop of Block One, the design of Railway Square interprets the former use of the space through industrial materials, custom rail furniture, artworks and interpretative rail lines that run through the space. The rail lines have been designed to tell the stories of the site:
• The Live Line is an existing live railway line that is integrated into the design of the square to allow trains to access the site and workshops during special events.
• The Social Line brings to life the rich social history of the former workers and their families and includes a line of rail furniture for sitting, lounging, playing and meeting.
• The Water Line is a linear misting and lighting feature that references the history of steam engines and movement of trains through the site.
• The History Line consists of an interpretive artwork set between the rail tracks that tells the history of state wide rail connections from the site and the shunting of the rail carts on the site.
• The Lost Line is a rail line that disappears into the ground interpreting the decline of the workshops in the 1990s and the repurposing of the site for a new community.
The design of the square brings together storytelling and place activation to create an inviting space for everyday use by locals and a high-performance event space capable of hosting larger events for the broader community.

Project: Midland Railway Square
Client:

Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority

Landscape Architecture: PLACE Laboratory
Role of the entrant in the project:
Project Leader / Landscape Architect

承建商：MG集团
Other design firms involved:
Civil: TABEC
Structural: Terpkos Engineering
Electrical: ETC
Quantity Surveyors: RBB
Irrigation: CADsult
Water Feature: CADsult
BCA: TT Building Services
Universal Access: TT Building Services
Artist (Sculpture): Stuart Green
Artist (Ground Graphic): Malcom McGregor with Concreto
Builder: MG Group

Project location: Midland Railway Workshops, Midland, Western Australia
Design year: 2015-2016
Year Built: 2016- 2017