滑铁卢青年设施

滑铁卢青年设施
Waterloo Youth Facility

Terragram景观设计师：滑铁卢青年设施现在被称为WEAVE（致力于教育、倡导和授权），位于新发现的富裕和传统上占据悉尼内郊滑铁卢地区的社会弱势人口之间的断层线上。原来的建筑是一座经过改造的康乐大楼。它像一个涂鸦掩体，为弱势公民社区服务了15年多。2008年，悉尼市决定着手恢复该设施，并组织了一次有限的竞赛。
Terragram Landscape Architects: The Waterloo Youth Facility now known as WEAVE (Working to Educate, Advocate and Empower) is located on a fault line between newly found affluence and a socially disadvantaged population that traditionally occupied the area of Waterloo, an inner suburb of Sydney. The original building was a converted amenities block. Resembling a graffiti covered bunker, it served the community of disadvantaged citizens for more than 15 years. In 2008, the City of Sydney decided to embark on the revitalization of the facility and organized a limited competition.

Waterloo Youth Facility

网格网格是视觉上最明显的建筑形式。它是一个独立的元素，在结构上与更坚固的内部质量分离。这包括原砖和新建造的混凝土墙，由预张拉天花板连接在一起。虽然这种情况是否会发生是值得怀疑的，但这两个要素中的任何一个都可以被移除或重新安置。
The mesh trellis is the most visually pronounced building form. It is an independent element that is structurally separated from the more solid internal mass. This consists of the original brick and newly constructed concrete walls bound together by pre tensioned ceiling slabs. Whilst it is doubtful that it would ever happen, either of these two elements could be removed or relocated.

强烈而显眼的网格几何体将在时间上变得更加模糊，可能在一些几乎看不见的位置。猖獗的本地攀岩者和引进的攀岩者会注意到这一点。令人好奇的是，这个棚架利用南非监狱网来支撑植物，同时也防止了扩大结构规模的企图。这座建筑物的防御性实际上对它有利。冬天，它的底层被维努斯塔鹿蹄草的橙色花朵所覆盖。春天晚些时候，旺加藤（Pandorea pandorana）的白色花朵从楼上垂下。这是一座随着季节变化而变化的建筑，也许是一座人工建造的超级瀑布。绿色皮肤在这里不起伪装作用，植物是建筑概念的组成部分，能够承受一定程度的忽视。这使这座建筑区别于现在几乎无处不在但生态脆弱的绿色墙壁。
The strong and conspicuous trellis geometry will in time appear considerably more blurred, perhaps at some locations almost invisible. Rampant native and introduced climbers will take care of this. It is rather curious that the trellis utilizes South African prison mesh to support plants whilst also preventing attempts to scale the structure. The defensive character of the building virtually works to its advantage. In winter its ground floor is shrouded in orange flowers of Pyrostegia venusta. Later in spring cascades of white flowers of wonga vine (Pandorea pandorana) hang from upstairs. It is a building that transforms with seasons, a constructed superflower perhaps. The green skin does not act here as a camouflage, plants are integral to the building concept and are able to withstand a degree of neglect. This distinguishes the building from now almost ubiquitous but ecologically fragile green walls.

原有街区的核心被挖空，形成一个小庭院，作为工作空间的延伸。只有一棵树，绉桃金娘使这个小小的庭院充满活力。一个由电缆和攀爬者组成的网将这个庭院与屋顶花园连接起来。空间外围的电缆支撑着本地袋熊浆果（Eustrephus latifolius）爬行植物。随着时间的推移，攀缘植物将部分遮住空间，将视野过滤到庭院中，使其不再像“玻璃窗”。屋顶上的一些角落既是工作空间的延伸，也是社交的愉悦空间。屋顶露台也是绿色植物的生长地，这是一个部分可以食用的花园。各种各样的植物，一些是结构性和长期性的，另一些是暂时性的草本植物、水果和蔬菜，围绕着铺砌的中心空间。因此，当地种植的食物找到了它的方法，以改善经常在屋顶“上演”的烧烤的味道。
The core of the original block has been hollowed to frame a small courtyard that functions as the extension of the workspace. A single tree, crepe myrtle animates this tiny courtyard. A web of cables and climbers connects this courtyard with the roof garden. Cables around the periphery of the space support native wombat berry (Eustrephus latifolius) creepers. In time the creepers will partially veil the space, filtering views into the courtyard and making it less of a ‘vitrine’. A number of nooks on the roof act as an extension of working space as well as a pleasant space for socialising. The roof terrace also plays host to greenery, in what is a partly edible garden. Various plants, some more structural and long term, others transient herbs, fruits and vegetables, surround the paved central space. Locally grown food thus finds its way, to improve the taste of barbecues that are frequently “staged” on the roof.

建筑物周围挡土墙的处理松散地呼应了建筑物雨棚的分形几何结构，有棱角的钢护岸出现在草坪上。钢护岸上开有基于盲文字母的小孔，其中一些是猪脸肉质植物的殖民地。孔洞的作用也是减少夏季热量对种植的负面影响。这些坚固的、几乎像防御工事一样的元素是特殊法规的结果，这些法规不允许草坡超过四分之一的坡度，以及所有垂直差超过一米的墙都必须有栏杆的要求。
Treatment of retaining walls around the building loosely echoes fractal geometries of the building canopy, with angular steel revetments emerging out of the lawn. Steel revetments are perforated with small openings based on Braille letters, some of which are colonised by pig face succulents. The function of holes is also to reduce negative impact of summer heat on planting. These robust, almost fortification like elements are a result of the peculiar regulations that don’t allow grassed slopes to exceed one in four gradients, as well as the requirement that all walls exceeding one metre of vertical difference have a balustrade.

Project name: Waterloo Youth Facility
Location: Waterloo, Sydney, Australia
Design firm: Terragram Landscape Architects and Collins & Turner Architects
Client: City of Sydney Council
Year: 2008-2012
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Photographs by Garth McKee, Vladimir Sitta, Anita Madura
Drawings by Terragram
Text by Terragram