伯利恒SteelStacks艺术+文化校园

伯利恒SteelStacks艺术+文化校园
Bethlehem SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus

WRT：伯利恒钢铁公司是一个20世纪的工业厂房，在全球运营设施。它于1857年在宾夕法尼亚州的利海谷建立，最终沿利海河占地1800英亩。1995年，伯利恒钢铁公司停止了在伯利恒的炼钢作业，关闭了工厂，结束了影响数千名利海谷居民生计、家庭生活和蓝领文化的悠久历史。
WRT: The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was a 20th century industrial powerhouse that operated facilities around the globe. It was founded in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley in 1857, eventually occupying 1,800 acres along the Lehigh River. In 1995, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation stopped its steel-making operations in Bethlehem, closed the plant, and brought to an end a long history that shaped the livelihoods, family life, and blue-collar culture of thousands of Lehigh Valley residents.

为了振兴该地块以备将来使用，伯利恒重建局于2000年建立了伯利恒工厂，这是一个占地126英亩的20年增税金融区。在过去10年中，管理局在前工厂东端的大型场地上监督新工业园区和多式联运设施的开发，占地9.5英亩的SteelStacks艺术+文化园区现在占据了西端，紧靠着该市完善的南侧社区。
In an effort to revitalize the site for future uses, the Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority established Bethlehem Works, a 126-acre 20-year tax incremental finance district in 2000. Over the past 10 years, the Authority oversaw the development of new industrial parks and intermodal transportation facilities on large sites at the eastern end of the former plant, and the 9.5 acre SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus now occupies the western end, nestled against the city’s well-established South Side neighborhood.

Bethlehem SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus

由于存在无法扰动或渗透的土壤，现场存在许多环境挑战，除非在个别情况下。拆除了大面积的现有建筑地基，将不透水覆盖物替换为透水覆盖物，并最大限度地减少雨水径流的产生。种植被带到事先不存在的场地，增加了场地的生物量，低照度被认为是降低能耗的一种方式。在社会方面，该项目吸引了当地社区的参与，为未来的用途提供了一个“城镇绿地”，将为伯利恒市中心带来新的城市生活，以支持区域发展倡议。该项目的成功有助于校园租户的可持续发展，刺激了校园附近废弃建筑和场地的私人发展，同时也支持了周边社区的现有企业。
The site offered many environmental challenges, due to the presence of soils that could not be disturbed or penetrated, except in isolated cases. Large areas of existing building foundations were removed, exchanging impervious cover for pervious, and minimizing the generation of stormwater runoff. Plantings were brought to the site where none existed beforehand, increasing the site’s biomass, and a low level of illumination was accepted as a way to minimize energy consumption. Socially, the project has engaged the local community, offering a “town green” for future uses that will bring new urban life to the heart of Bethlehem in support of regional development initiatives. The project’s success is contributing to the sustainability of the campus’s tenants, spurring private development in abandoned buildings and sites adjacent to the campus, while also bolstering existing businesses in the surrounding neighborhood.

该设计为该场地带来了巨大的积极影响，最重要的是以一种既能教育当地居民又能为游客创造社区感的方式，使废弃场地焕发活力。该校园作为伯利恒游客中心的前院，并使其非营利合作伙伴（PBS39，利海谷的公共电视演播室；以及ArtsQuest（一家提供全年艺术教育和表演的机构），以扩大其公共项目，从而加强了这些组织。他们现在与新成立的校园非营利组织（包括Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks之友和宾夕法尼亚州立大学园丁大师）合作，探索利海谷，为游客提供景观维护、资金和支持服务。他们的共同成功，加上城市的持续承诺，确保了该重建项目不仅具有创新性，而且在环境影响方面具有可持续性。
The design brings a tremendous positive impact to the site, most importantly revitalizing an abandoned site in a way that both educates and creates a sense of community for both local inhabitants and visitors. The campus serves as a forecourt for the Bethlehem Visitor Center, and has enabled its nonprofit partners (PBS39, the Lehigh Valley’s public television studio; and ArtsQuest – an institution providing year-round art education and performances) to expand their public programs, which has strengthened these organizations. They now work with newly established campus nonprofits (including Friends of Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks, and Penn State Master Gardeners) and Discover Lehigh Valley to provide landscape maintenance, funding, and support services to visitors. Their combined success, along with an ongoing commitment from the city, ensures that this redevelopment project is not only innovative but also sustainable in terms of its environmental impact.

While the campus is a unifying landscape, discrete areas were conceived to facilitate a diverse, flexible, and active range of programs (as of 2016, over 1.5-million visitors participate in campus events each year), including:

•Levitt Pavilion圆形剧场作为校园的中心，每年夏天组织50场免费的家庭友好音乐会，在非活动期间也作为社区游乐场
• An entry court facing the Visitor Center for gathering and site orientation
• A “flex” event space adjoining the ArtsQuest building for smaller performances, outdoor dining, and overflow event space for indoor/outdoor events
• A reading and theater space facing PBS 39 for outdoor programs
• The integration of public art to engage the community and site, funded by the National Endowment of the Arts
• A family picnic and play area facing a section of the Blower House
• The Hoover-Mason Trestle, an elevated pedestrian promenade which allows visitors to walk through the industrial archeology of the site along the same path that the raw materials to produce steel were delivered
• Interpretive signage and wayfinding devices throughout the project, including an interactive digital application to deliver audio tours, oral histories, and a database of historical images and interpretive data [hoovermason.com]
• The Levitt Pavilion amphitheater as the campus centerpiece, which organizes 50 free family-friendly concerts each summer, and also functions as a community playfield during non-events

通过重建历史悠久的伯利恒市中心、利海河、利海大学和利海河谷的制造业遗产之间的文化联系，SteelStacks艺术+文化校园代表了小型后工业城市的一种新景观类型，并将继续为这座昔日工厂城市的广泛经济复苏做出贡献。校园是在许多锈带遗址的真实性中发现的重新发现的经济和社会价值的主要例子，也是WRT所采用的基础设施设计模式。
By re-forging a cultural link between historic downtown Bethlehem, the Lehigh River, Lehigh University, and the manufacturing heritage of the Lehigh Valley, the SteelStacks Arts + Cultural Campus represents a new landscape typology for small, post-industrial cities, and will continue to contribute to the extensive economic resurgence of this former factory town. The Campus serves as a prime example of rediscovered economic and social value found in the authenticity of many of these Rust Belt sites, and is an infrastructural design model embraced by WRT.

Entrant office name: WRT
Role of the entrant in the project: Landscape Architect + Architect (Prime Consultant)

建成年份：2015年
Other design firms involved:
Construction: Boyle Construction Inc.
Fabrication and Erection: Levan Associates, Inc.
Structural Sub-Consultant: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Structural Sub-Consultant: Maser Consulting P.A.
Civil Sub-Consultant: HDR Engineering
MEP Sub-Consultant: Lehigh Valley Engineering, Inc.
Lighting Sub-Consultant: L’Observatoire International
Historic Interpretation Sub-Consultant: Local Project
Historic Interpretation Sub-Consultant: Bluecadet
Horticulture Sub-Consultant: Patrick Cullina
Project location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Design year: 2009-2013
Year Built: 2015