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Potgieterstraat

Carve：小干预往往会引发更大的变化。阿姆斯特丹市街道设计中的地方参与成为公众参与的舞台。Potgieterstraat位于阿姆斯特丹市中心，19世纪的建筑可以追溯到阿姆斯特丹的第一次大规模扩建。当时的街区类型似乎对今天的公共生活不利，因为这些街区的内院不向公众开放，街道也从未为今天的交通设计过。一般来说，缺乏公共广场和公共绿地。这里的街道以汽车为主，最近引入的自行车道是一种交通解决方案，不幸的是，它占用了相邻人行道的可用空间。整个地区为儿童和行人制定了一项全新的战略，以加强和振兴公共领域。在一次政治调查中，当地居民被要求商定和制定新的指导方针，并参与建筑师的选择。
Carve: Small interventions often evoke bigger changes. Local involvement in a design for a street in the city of Amsterdam became the stage for public participation. Potgieterstraat is situated in inner Amsterdam, in a context of 19th century buildings dating back to the first big enlargement of Amsterdam. The block typology of that time appears to the disadvantage of today’s public life, since the inner courtyards of these blocks are not open to public use and the streets were never designed for today’s traffic. In general there is a lack of public squares and public green. Streets here are dominated by cars and recently introduced bike lanes are a traffic solution, unfortunately claiming the available space from adjacent side walks. The district as a whole was up to a refreshing new strategy for children and pedestrians to strengthen and vitalize the public realm. Local inhabitants were asked in a political enquiry to agree upon and formulate new guidelines and were also involved in the selection of an architect.

Potgieterstraat

Aim of Intervention

卡夫建议关闭其中一条街道，完全用于汽车交通，以便将街道空间重新用于市民使用。重新指定的前街道和停车场将进行雕刻设计，总场地面积为1500 m2。该场地的功能计划已从交通和停车改为会议和休息场所的城市计划、儿童游乐场、绿化质量的提升以及整个地区的积极城市灯塔。
Carve suggested to close down one of the streets entirely for car traffic in order to rededicate that street space to citizen utilization. The rededicated former street and parking area given to Carve to design, has a total site surface of 1,500 m2. The site’s functional program was changed from traffic and parking into an urban program of meeting and pausing places, a playground for children, an upgrading of the green quality and overall, a positive urban beacon for the district.

Intervention

然而，这种设计的真正好处并不明显。它更像是社区对当地城市领域的开垦。父母和没有孩子的公民在木凳上和一个小亭周围相互交流和放松。该位置成为邻里互动的锚，并与周围街区相互关联，有助于将不同背景和年龄的人聚集在一起。
Carve’s intervention was firstly to rethink the street into a play street, accessible only to bikes and pedestrians. All surface materials were removed, the existing trees however were kept and new ones added. Into that clearance, Carve designed a mogul landscape with play objects integrated, materialized in abstract black rubber. The play objects vary from interactive elements to water sprayers. The rubber can be used as a drawing surface, invites to jump, run, fall thanks to its soft feel while reducing noise levels.
However, the true benefit of this design is not obvious on a first glimpse. It is rather the reclaiming of local urban realm by its community. Parents but also citizens without children interact and relax here on wooden benches and around a little kiosk. The location becomes an anchor for neighborhood interaction and interlocks as well its surrounding blocks as well as helping to get together people of different backgrounds and ages.

Final Assessment

虽然参与被视为一个过程，所有利益相关者都积极参与，但在这个特殊案例中，情况根本不是这样。参与进程的特点可能是冲突，而不是合作。与市议会的一项雄心勃勃的要求相冲突，即通过书面调查，70%的居住在住宅区的居民应同意该计划，与不希望其广受欢迎的公共停车位被移到街角的居民相冲突，新政府的任命改变了居民和前政府之间已经商定的计划。与街道上的零售商发生冲突，该小项目与大项目的财务耦合。各城市部门之间缺乏合作，项目总体上延迟。所有这些冲突导致了这样一个过程：在计划实现之前，社会纽带实际上已经建立起来，因为居民表现出了毅力。因此，这一公共领域成功的基础是这一设计的副产品。虽然主要的吸引力当然是一个令人兴奋的、独特的游乐场，但它成功地吸引了大部分当地人，通过刺激邻里聊天，帮助邻里失去了匿名性。
Whereas participation is seen as a process with all stakeholders positively involved this wasn’t the situation at all in this particular case. The participative processes could be more characterized by conflict than by cooperation. Conflicts with the city council with an ambitious demand that by written survey 70% of all residents in the housing blocks should agree on the plan, conflicts with residents that didn’t want their acclaimed public parking places to be moved around the corner, the appointment of a new political administration changing plans already agreed on between the residents and the former administration. Conflicts with retailers located on the street, the financial coupling of this small project to a bigger project. Lack of cooperation between the different city departments and the delay of the project in general. All these conflicts resulted in a process where the social bonding was actually already established before the realization of the plans because residents showed perseverance. Therefore the basis of the success of this public domain was a side-product of this design. Whereas the main attraction is surely an exciting, unique playground, it succeeds in attracting a large percentage of locals, helping the neighborhood to lose its anonymity by stimulating neighborhood chats.

例如，这里的居民很少组织户外晚餐和饮料。无论什么时候天气允许，人们都可以看到儿童和成人在这条街上示威。新种植的树木与现有的树木相结合，提升了这个空间的舒适度。然而，这种干预并不是令人愉悦的绿色景观，而是一种与之互动的生动计划的城市实施：一个城市舞台。
Residents organise for instance little outdoor dinners and drinks here. Literally whenever the weather allows, one can witness children and adults claiming this street. The newly planted trees combined with the already existing ones have upgraded the pleasantness of this space. However, the intervention is not that of pleasant greenery to look at, but rather an urban implementation of a lively program to interact with: an urban stage.

Landscape Architecture: Carve
Team: Elger Blitz, Mark van der Eng, Renet Korthals Altes, Jasper van der Schaaf, Lucas Beukers, Stef van Campen
Project name: Potgieterstraat
Completion date: 2010
Project location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Site area: 1500m2
Design: Carve