“盛开”城市中心

“盛开”城市中心
“Blooming” Citycenter

B+B局：在其最早阶段，即20世纪70年代初，“新城”的建设活动集中在其住宅区。大约在市中心即将轮到它的时候，经济环境几乎没有提供融资的空间。结果是一个内向、廉价的购物中心。像许多其他“新市镇”一样，纽韦根现在面临着将旧购物中心改造成一个新的充满活力的中心的任务。从1970年代继承下来的结构将受到全面修订。本·范·伯克尔（联合国工作室）、迈克尔·范·格塞尔（Michael van Gessel）和B+B局详细阐述了该市的发展愿景：这是一项独特的任务，其目标和范围可与OMA在同一年为阿尔梅雷设计的城市核心相媲美。这一城市更新项目的计划规定了一个范围广泛的方案，包括住房、办公室、市政厅、城市剧院、电影院、音乐中心、图书馆和将现有车间面积增加一倍的筹资过程，导致该方案面临相当大的压力。这些重要的增加只有通过密集、多方面地利用可用空间才能实现。
Bureau B+B: In its earliest phase, at the start of the 1970s, construction activity in ‘new town’ Nieuwegein concentrated on its residential areas. Around when the city centre was about to have its turn, the economic climate offered little space for financing. The result was an introverted, cheap-looking shopping mall. Like many other ‘new towns’, Nieuwegein now faces the task of transforming the old shopping mall into a new vibrant heart. The structure inherited from the 1970s is to be subjected to a comprehensive revision. The municipality’s development vision is elaborated in detail by Ben van Berkel (un Studio), Michael van Gessel and Bureau B+B: a unique task, whose aim and scope are comparable to the urban core designed by OMA in the same years for Almere. The process of financing this urban renewal project, whose plan provides for a wide-ranging programme, including homes, offices, a town hall, an urban theatre, a cinema, a music centre, a library and a doubling of the present shop floor space, results in the programme being placed under considerable pressure. These significant additions are only attainable by means of an intensive, manifold use of the available space.

“Blooming” Citycenter

该设计提出了一个动态的整体，由透明的楼层组成，可以从早到晚连续活动。市中心以一种具有代表性的方式向外开放，并与运河的水接触。公共空间分布在不同的层面上，通过一个折叠的地面层统一起来，以一种不言自明的方式引导游客进入节目的所有组成部分。公共空间设计的精妙之处在于它的概念是“盛开的城市”。这转化为一种引人注目的路面模式，在两种不同的混合物中使用天然石材。该模式通过对树枝和花朵等自然元素的抽象表示，打破了平面和建筑的束缚。广场上绿意盎然。树岛和凸起的树形广场与集成的座椅元素赋予每个广场独特的特征。盛开的树木，如木兰和李子，与具有可爱秋天色彩的树木交替，使新的城市中心全年都具有迷人的外观。其中一座广场的独特性部分归功于其不同寻常的围栏。在这里，花卉图案在第三维度中获得独立性。
The design proposes a dynamic whole, comprised of transparent storeys, in which continuous activity is possible from morning to night. The city centre becomes outwardly open in a representative manner and makes contact with the water of the Doorslag Canal. The public space is distributed over different levels, unified by means of a folded ground level that leads the visitor in a self-explanatory manner to all components of the programme. The elaboration of the design for the public space has as its concept ‘the blooming city’. This translates into a striking pavement pattern employing natural stone in two different mixtures. The pattern breaks free of both plan and architecture by means of an abstract representation of such natural elements as branches and flowers. The greenery is concentrated on the plazas. Tree islands and raised tree-squares with integrated seating elements give each plaza its own unique character. Blossoming trees, such as magnolias and prunuses, alternating with trees that feature lovely autumn colours, give the new urban heart an attractive appearance throughout the year. One of the plazas owes its identity in part to its unusual fencing. Here, the floral pattern attains independence in the third dimension.

照片：蕾妮·克莱因，弗雷德丽卡·里肯伯格
Landscape Architecture: Bureau B+B stedebouw en landschapsarchitectuur
Location: Citycenter Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
Total m2 built surface: 40.350 m2
Design to completion: 2007 –present
Client: Municipality of Nieuwegein
Contractor: Scherenberg
Text: B+B
Photographs: Renee Klein, Frederica Rijkenberg