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水晶
The Crystal

位于伦敦码头区心脏地带的“水晶”是一个新的游客目的地，被伦敦市长誉为东伦敦的新地标性建筑，以启动绿色企业区。西门子任命汤森景观设计师设计“可持续城市景观”，作为其城市计划的一部分。简要说明的目的是确保高质量的公共空间设计和提供给游客和当地社区使用和享受，确保公共空间仍归公众所有。
Located in the heart of the London Docklands ‘The Crystal’, a new visitor destination, has been hailed by the Mayor of London as a new landmark building in East London to kick-start the Green Enterprise District. Townshend Landscape Architects were appointed by Siemens to design a ‘sustainable urban landscape’ as part of their Cities Initiative. The brief was to ensure that high quality public spaces were designed and delivered for the use and enjoyment of both visitors and the local community, ensuring the public space remains in public ownership.

The Crystal

从一开始，我们的目标就是创造独特的城市景观，为传统的“生态中心”提供另一种视角。当时的想法是，这可以作为一个先例，说明如何将可持续设计整合到城市广场和城市空间中，而在这些地方，最初似乎很少有机会这样做。
The aim from the outset was to create distinctive urban landscape, one that would provide an alternative perspective to the stereotypical ‘ecology centre’. The idea was that this could be used as a precedent for how sustainable design can be integrated into city squares and urban spaces where there would initially seem little opportunity for doing so.

公共领域战略旨在鼓励更广泛的社会意识形态的转变，使“可持续性”更具吸引力，并允许人们参与场地内的社会活动，包括当地食品计划和社区花园，以帮助促进这一原则。汤森景观设计师一直在与伦敦纽厄姆区、伦敦设计和GLA密切合作，为中心建立“社区战略”创建框架。这包括举办定期活动、研讨会、园艺日和城市养蜂信息。
The public realm strategy was designed to encourage a shift in the broader social ideology, making ‘sustainability’ more attractive and allowing people to participate in social activities within the site, which includes local food programmes and community gardens to help foster this principle. Townshend Landscape Architects have been working closely with the London Borough of Newham, Design for London and the GLA to create a framework for establishing a ‘Community Strategy’ for the Centre. This involves hosting regular events, workshops, gardening days and information on urban beekeeping.

该项目旨在获得BREEAM“杰出”和国际LEED“白金”评级。景观设计旨在通过指定比标准方案低得多的材料来减少该项目的生态足迹。根据BRE绿色规范指南，使用的硬质景观材料也被评为“A级”或更高级别。指定的电厂对气候敏感，可减少用水量，从而降低开发的维护要求。在需要灌溉草坪的地方，水通过首创的“黑水”回收系统收集，该系统利用建筑物的废水。除了提供具有视觉吸引力的舒适空间外，BREEAM还需要增加具有高生物多样性价值的野生动物和植物。景观设计力求在这两个相互竞争的因素之间取得平衡，通过指定一系列精心挑选的植物，这些植物不仅美观，而且为蜜蜂和其他昆虫提供了高花蜜来源，具有野生动物价值。本土野花草地和传统花园展示了这一潜力，希望人们能受到启发，思考自己的后花园、阳台或窗台。
The project is aiming for BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ as well as the international LEED ‘Platinum’ rating. The landscape design aims to reduce the ecological footprint of this project by specifying materials with a much lower embodied energy than a standard scheme. The hard landscape materials used are also rated ‘grade A’ or greater with the BRE Green Guide to Specification. The plants specified are climate sensitive to reduce water consumption, in turn reducing the maintenance requirement of the development. Where irrigation is required for lawns, water is harvested through a pioneering ‘blackwater’ recycling system which utilises the waste water from the building. In addition to providing visually attractive amenity spaces an increase in wildlife and plants with a high biodiversity value were required as part of BREEAM. The design for the landscape seeks to strike a balance between these two competing factors by specifying a carefully selected a range of plants which not only look good, but provide a wildlife value with a high nectar source for bees and other insects. Native wildflower meadows and traditional flower gardens demonstrate this potential and it is hoped people will be inspired to think about their own back gardens, balconies or window boxes.

Project name: The Crystal – A Sustainable Cities Initiative by Siemens
Landscape Architecture: Townshend Landscape Architects
Completed: 2012
Location: 1 Siemens Brothers Way, Royal Victoria Dock, London Borough of Newham
Area: 1.8ha