比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会

比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol：比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会的校园改造把西雅图市中心的12英亩停车场改造成一个生态和社会可持续的全球协作和当地参与的枢纽。景观设计师设计的网站，作为地面连接员工和再生周围社区符合基金会的原则，具有全球性的使命与当地的根源。在发展前,条例草案及；梅林达盖茨基金会校园是一个12英亩的停车场，与主要街道隔开。在西雅图成为一座城市之前的几年，这里是一片肥沃的泥炭沼泽，位于联合湖和埃利奥特湾之间的马鞍上。随着时间的推移，工业活动污染了沼泽地，最终被沥青覆盖的有毒化学品混合物。景观的硬化导致了一个孤立、退化的场地。
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol: The construction of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Campus transformed a contaminated 12-acre parking lot in the heart of Seattle into an ecologically and socially sustainable hub for global collaboration and local engagement. The landscape architects designed the site to serve as the ground that connects employees and regenerates the surrounding community meeting the Foundation’s principles of having a global mission with local roots. Prior to development, the site of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Campus was a 12-acre parking lot cut off from the surrounding neighborhoods by major roads. Years before Seattle became a city, the site was a rich, peaty bog situated in the saddle between Lake Union and Elliott Bay. Over time, industrial activities contaminated the bog with a cocktail of toxic chemicals that were eventually covered in asphalt. This hardening of the landscape resulted in an isolated, degraded site.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

基金会的目标是“帮助所有人过上健康、富有成效的生活”，激励整个项目团队，推动决策过程。从一开始，客户就向设计团队提出挑战，设想一个支持当地和全球议程的校园，既是土地的管理者，又是社区的活跃成员，并为其不同的工作人员和客人培养一个全球资源和协作环境。
The Foundation’s goal to “help all people lead healthy, productive lives,” motivated the entire project team and drove the decision-making process. From the outset, the client challenged the design team to envision a campus that would support the local and global agendas of the Foundation—being both a steward of the land and active member of the neighborhood as well as fostering a global resource and collaborative environment for its diverse staff and guests.

通过密切合作，设计团队开发了建筑和景观，以代表由基金会的全球使命和当地根源的目标启发的互补原则。在地面上，景观和建筑平台通过材料和种植将项目植根于前沼泽地，使整个场地保持连续性，并恢复先前失去的原生栖息地和生态功能。这个“局部场地”的组合场地和建筑构成与邻里网格和周围街道的正面相呼应。在树冠和树冠之上，建筑以开放的形式向世界延伸。
Through a close collaboration, the design team developed the buildings and landscape to represent complimentary principles inspired by the Foundation’s goals of a global mission and local roots. On the ground, the landscape and building podiums root the project in the former bog through materials and planting, giving continuity throughout the site, as well as restoring native habitat and ecological functions previously lost. The combined site and building composition of this “local ground” responds to the neighborhood grid and fronts onto the surrounding streets. At the level of the tree canopy and above, the buildings expand as open forms reaching out to the world.

景观设计师利用该项目对12英亩停车场的改造，将长期缺乏的街道边缘和舒适、装修齐全的人行道带到附近。街景设计建立在周围标准的基础上，通过座位、公共艺术和沿边缘种植植物等附加设施加强现有街道。安全墙集成到座位元素和现场陈设中。校园内部对材料和细节的关注同样延伸到边缘周围的公共空间。
The landscape architects leveraged the project’s transformation of the 12-acre parking lot to bring to the neighborhood long-absent street edges and welcoming, furnished sidewalks. Streetscape design builds on surrounding standards to strengthen the existing streets with additional amenities of seating, public art, and planting along the edges. Security walls integrate into seating elements and site furnishings. The same attention to materials and detailing used in the campus interior extends to the public spaces around the edge.

在校园内，景观将各个建筑物连接在一起，为会议和活动提供空间，以及从一栋建筑物到另一栋建筑物的日常通道。在中心，一个树木覆盖的广场，轻轻地漂浮在一个深深扎根的水池之上，是校园社区的中心。广场通过木板路连接到校园的“本地地面”和更私密的会议空间，旨在促进偶然相遇和暂停的机会。在这片土地上，茂密的草丛形成了该地区阳光充足的特点。荫凉的地区种植着厚厚的本地和非本地蕨类植物、本地常绿胡桃和森林地被植物。
Inside the campus, the landscape unites individual buildings and provides a space for meeting and activities as well as daily passage from building to building. At the center, a tree-covered plaza that lightly floats above a deeply grounded pool serves as the heart of the campus community. The plaza connects back to the “local ground” of the campus and more intimate meeting spaces by boardwalks designed to promote serendipitous encounters and opportunities for pause. On this local ground, meadow-like drifts of thick grasses characterize the sunnier areas of the site. The shadier areas are planted with thick drifts of native and non-native ferns, native evergreen huckleberries, and forest groundcovers.

雨水收集似乎是维持复杂繁茂生态的简单关键。在项目开始时，雨水收集在西雅图仍然是非法的。景观设计师和工程团队与基金会、西雅图市和金县合作，向华盛顿州生态部提出不需要“水权”的说法。理由很简单：在城市化地区，由于所有雨水都将进入雨水合流系统，并使基础设施超负荷，因此更大的好处是将雨水收集并重新用于现场功能。实施这种新的水管理方法有助于周围流域的健康。
Rainwater harvesting is the seemingly simple key to sustaining the complex and lush ecology. At the outset of the project, rainwater harvesting was still illegal in Seattle. The landscape architect and engineering team worked with the Foundation, the City of Seattle, and King County to make the argument to the Washington State Department of Ecology that no “water right” was required. The argument was simple: in urbanized areas, since all of the rainfall will enter the combined storm sewer system and overload the infrastructure, the greater benefit is to capture and re-use the rainwater for on-site functions. Implementing this new approach to water stewardship has contributed to the health of the surrounding watershed.

Landscape Architect: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Location: Seattle / WA / USA
Client: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION TEAM

NBBJ, Architect
KPPF, Civil Engineer
Sellen Construction, General Contractor
CMS Collaborative, Fountain Consultant
ARUP, Structural Engineer and MEP/AV
Jeffrey Bruce & Co. Irrigation and Soils