中央公园 - 园林吧

中央公园
Mid Main Park

HAPA合作组织和温哥华公园委员会与Mount Pleasant居民和商业人士进行了协商，并制定了三个公园愿景。基于社区反应，产生了首选的混合概念，其主要原则是避难、聚集、连接和场地历史。从公众参与到施工完成，Hapa都在现场，与客户以及我们的分包顾问密切合作。对于以前主街道通行权内未充分利用的支路，Hapa制定了一个方案，舒适地坐落在一座新的六层商业和住宅楼与繁忙的主街道之间。铺路、曲线美的座墙、土堆、分层种植和照明的组合缩短了这一笨拙的长而三角形场地，并鼓励缓慢、迂回的通道，与街道的活动相邻。
HAPA Collaborative and Vancouver Park Board consulted with Mount Pleasant residents and business people, and produced three park visions. Based on community response, a preferred hybrid concept was generated, with refuge, gathering, connections and site history as its main principles. Hapa was there from public engagement to construction completion, collaborating closely with the client as well as our subconsultants. For what was previously an underused slip lane within the Main Street right-of-way, Hapa produced a scheme that sits comfortably between a new six-story commercial and residential building and busy Main Street. The composition of paving, curvaceous seating walls, mounded earth, layered planting and lighting shortens the awkward long and triangular site, and encourages slower, circuitous passage with places to linger adjacent to the action of the street.

Mid Main Park

混凝土路面与相邻城市人行道的网格形成图案，但覆盖着用彩色混凝土渲染的大而随机的“牛奶泡”，模糊了街道、开发区和公园之间的边缘。小径蜿蜒穿过公园，提供了离开城市人行道的选择。广场和种植被一系列弯曲的浇铸混凝土海堤分隔开，这些海堤的特点是定制的牛鼻子以阻止滑板者，并在夜间提供连续的LED照明。沿着主街的海岸线包括长长的、连续的黄色雪松长椅靠背。在较低的大陆步行广场上铺设了第一个装置的透水浇注混凝土带——将雨水输送到主海堤后面中央土堆中的拘留廊，减少径流率和排入城市雨水管的数量。
The concrete paving is patterned to the grid of the adjacent city sidewalk, but is overlaid with large, random “milk bubbles” rendered in stained concrete, that blur the edge between street, development site and park. Pathways curve through the park, offering the option to depart from the city sidewalk. Plaza and planting are separated by a series of curving cast concrete seatwalls that feature a custom bullnose to deter skateboarders, and continuous LED lighting at night. The seatwalls along Main Street include long, continuous yellow cedar bench backs. Bands of permeable cast concrete paving—the first installation in a Lower Mainland pedestrian plaza – convey stormwater to a detention gallery buried in the central mound behind the main seatwall, reducing runoff rate and quantity discharged into the city’s storm sewer.

公园内部的植物与繁忙的街道相隔甚远。在这些地区，90%以上的现有行道树得到保留，并进一步改善土壤和灌溉条件，以增强其健康。除了沿街保留的中国榆树和小叶椴树外，还安装了雪铃树，以备春色和最终的演替。地平面上种植着丰富的禾本科植物和多年生植物。
Plantings buffer the interior of the park from the busy street. Within these areas, over 90% of the existing street trees were retained, with further soil and irrigation improvements to bolster their health. In addition to the Chinese elms and littleleaf linden trees retained along Main Street, snowbell trees were installed for spring colour and eventual succession. The ground plane is richly planted with a mix of grasses and perennials.

公园的标志是“弯曲的稻草”格架，这是一个异想天开的参照物，指的是1952年至1989年占据该场地的前棕榈乳制品和牛奶酒吧。每一端的猕猴桃藤最终将覆盖着茂盛的绿叶，并为过路人提供免费午餐。在格架的北面，配套的酒吧凳让人想起20世纪中叶一家乳制品酒吧的内部（配有旋转座椅），并采用粉末涂层钢进行更新，以抵御恶劣天气。Hapa与钢铁制造商密切合作，确保设计愿景顺利到达现场。所有的钢铁都有棕乳橙红色，在他们的标志和品牌上有显著的特色，一直到他们牛奶卡车的轮毂盖。这个格子架让人耳目一新，增加了街道的怪癖，让这个新的中主城区立刻令人难忘。
The signature of the park is the “bendy-straw” trellis, a whimsical reference to the former Palm Dairy and Milk Bar that occupied the site from 1952 to 1989. Kiwi vines at each end will eventually drape the trellis with lush green foliage, and provide a free lunch to passers-by. North of the trellis, matching barstools recall the interior of a mid-20th-century dairy bar (complete with spinning seats), and are updated in powder coated steel to withstand the elements. Hapa worked closely with the steel fabricator to ensure the design vision successfully made it to the site. All steel bears the Palm Dairy orange-red colour, featured prominently on their logos and branding, right down to the hubcaps of their milk trucks. The trellis generates buzz, adds to the eccentricity of the street and makes the new Mid Main neighbourhood instantly memorable.

The result of a highly collaborative client-consultant process, Mid Main Park has become a neighbourhood gathering spot, an important connective site on Main street, and a local and city-wide conversation piece.

Landscape Architecture: HAPA Collaborative
Project Name: Mid Main Park
Project Location: 3333 Main Street Plaza
Year of construction: 2013