梅特卡夫公园

梅特卡夫公园
Metcalfe Park

ASPECT工作室：梅特卡夫公园位于悉尼皮尔蒙特商业和技术摇篮的海滨。毗邻海港，现有公园提供了悉尼快速变化的西部城市边缘的一些最直接的视图，但除了开放的草地区域外，没有任何设施或公共设施，它只是一个过渡性的地方，大多数人只是通过或环绕它。为了做更多的事情，创造一个留下来的空间，当地商业社区构思了一个新的项目模式。周边的几家企业已经联合起来，成立了一个辖区合作伙伴工作组，并委托设立了一个临时公园，目的是创造一个可用且富有灵感的公园体验，以鼓励周边社区进行更多的互动。
ASPECT Studios: Metcalfe Park is situated on the waterfront in the commercial and technology cradle of Pyrmont in Sydney. Adjacent to the harbour, the existing park offers some of the most direct views of the rapidly transforming western city edge of Sydney, but with no facilities or public offering beyond its open grass area, it functions as a transitional place with most people simply passing through or around it. With an appetite to do more and create a space to stay, a new project model was conceived of by the local business community. Several of the surrounding businesses have rallied together to establish a precinct partners working group and commission a temporary park with the goal of creating a useable and inspired park experience to encourage greater interaction by the surrounding communities.

Metcalfe Park

为了鼓励更多的人留下来、锻炼和玩耍，ASPECT Studio根据现场研究、社区参与和分析，在公园内设计了一个公园，旨在引入社会基础设施类型，并测试这些类型在改变现有使用模式方面的有效性。在开始设计过程之前，ASPECT Studio在夏季的几个月中进行了几天的现场观察研究，以建立“基本案例”，并围绕当前的使用模式设置关键指标和严格性，以最终测试设计结果。该研究的主要结果如下所示。
To encourage more people to stay, exercise and play, ASPECT Studios designed a park within a park which was based on site research, community engagement and analysis, with the intent to introduce social infrastructure types and test the effectiveness of these in shifting existing patterns of use. Prior to commencing the design process, ASPECT Studios conducted an onsite observation study over several days during the summer months, to establish a ‘base case’ and to setup key metrics and rigour around the current patterns of use, to ultimately test the design outcomes against. The key outcomes of the study are listed below.

Key usage

The population of people using the park fluctuates from an average of 1500 people per day during the working week to 880 on the weekend. Within these periods, 75% of people pass through the park.

The peak usage

在工作日，高峰使用时间为上午8-10点，每小时有300-500人通过该空间。这在白天逐渐减少，在下午6-8点之间，每小时50-150人。在周末，这一趋势被逆转，主要在下午6-8点左右使用，在凉爽的夜晚，每小时有200-400人使用公园。
On weekdays the peak usage period was between 8-10am, with 300-500 people per hour moving through the space. This gradually reduced during the day to a low of 50-150 people per hour between 6-8pm. During the weekends this trend was reversed with key usage around 6-8pm with 200-400 people per hour using the park during the cooler evening period.

Activity analysis

绘制全天行人运动和活动的地图，有助于了解主要用途的使用模式。这些用途包括通道、有组织的运动和锻炼、久坐用途和其他用途，如自行车、遛狗和小家庭群体的附带游戏。这将空间原则定义为保留清晰的欲望线和清晰的未编程中心，并加强现有的占据边缘的模式。根据这项观察研究的指标，ASPECT Studio能够为公园设计成果。公园测试了游戏、健康和福祉、新兴技术、生物亲和力、社会基础设施、新工作方法、座椅和遮阳结构。
Mapping pedestrian movements and activity throughout the day provided an understanding of patterns of use for key uses These were noted as thoroughfare, organised sport and exercise, sedentary uses and other uses such as cycling, walking dogs, and incidental play by small family groups. This defined the spatial principles as retaining clear desire lines and a clear unprogrammed centre, and enhancing the existing patterns of keeping occupation to the edges. Directly responding to the metrics of this observation study, ASPECT Studios was able to design outcomes for the park. The park tested play, health and wellbeing, emerging technologies, biophilia, social infrastructure, new working methods, seating, shade structures.

More Social infrastructure

为了鼓励更多的人留下来，无论是吃饭、放松、锻炼、玩耍还是外出工作，公园通过提供特定场所的定制家具来满足用户的需求和愿望；户外桌子；综合播种机；成熟的大树；座位；乒乓球桌；太阳能收集伞提供遮阳、智能手机和平板电脑充电设施；以及无线环境。
To encourage more people to stay whether to eat, relax, exercise, play or work externally, the park accommodates the needs and desires of users by providing place specific bespoke furniture; outdoor tables; integrated planters; mature large trees; seating opportunities; ping pong tables; solar harvesting umbrellas to provide shading and smart phone and tablet charging facilities; and a wireless environment.

Visible Sustainability Initiatives

The new park takes responsibility for its environmental footprint and has separated waste collection, solar harvesting and used repurposed and renewable materials to build it.

Research and Advocacy

公园的临时性质是测试和了解人们如何与空间互动，以及公园的哪些方面对未来有用。它将在悉尼夏季进行试验，所有公园组件的设计都允许在此期间轻松重新布置和储存。它测试各种配置，并最终确定城市空间的最佳解决方案，这是由人和特定地点驱动的结果。在此期间，项目将被记录（三次21天的试验），以了解职业的成功和转移，这取决于物理环境，并有利于未来的工作。研究过程包括再次绘制关键使用率、峰值使用率和活动分析图，同时还将其与利用网络和社交媒体平台的传播策略相结合。这使用户能够通过在线“建议箱”提供直接反馈。
The temporary nature of the park is to test and understand how people interact with the space and what aspects of the park could work for the future. It is being trialled over the Sydney summer, with all park components designed to allow for easy rearrangement and storage over the period. It tests various configurations and will ultimately determine the optimal solution for the urban space, which are people and site-specific driven-outcomes. During this time the project is being documented (three x 21-day trials) to understand the success and shift in occupation depending on the physical environment and for the benefit for future work. The study process includes again mapping key usage, peak usage and an analysis of activity, whilst also aligning this with a communication strategy utilising web and social media platforms. This gives users the ability to provide direct feedback via the online ‘suggestion box’.

This summer park has been designed with a view to promote health and wellbeing and a better appreciation of the benefits of urban green space. The final solution will be a series of recommendations to landowner through ongoing stakeholder engagement to work towards a permanent solution.

Data

Metcalfe Park “Park within a Park’
Location: Metcalfe Park, Pyrmont, Sydney NSW, Australia
Precinct Partners: Google, The Star Sydney, Doltone House, The GPT Group, Mirvac, Fairfax Media, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
Project Management: JLL, Margot Natoli Project Management

Design Team:
Lead Designers and Landscape Architects: ASPECT Studios
Fabrication Engineering and Installation: Fleetwood Urban

Photography: Florian Groehn
Year: 2015