原名称：Mid Main Park
设计单位：HAPA Collaborative
位置：美国
分类：公园
内容：实景照片
图片来源：HAPA Collaborative
图片：13张
标签：公园实景照片
Hapa事务所和温哥华公园委员会与Mount Pleasant的居民和商业人士商议，未来要在社区里建设三个公园。为了满足居民的要求，设计师对该场地的设计提出一个混合性的概念，即以庇护所、集会地、连接性和场所历史作为设计的主要原则。
在缅因街的公用线路上留有一条尚未利用的滑动通道，Hapa制作了一个计划，让人们可以舒适的坐在位于新六层商业、住宅大楼和繁忙的大街之间的公园内。道路的铺装纹理、富有曲线美的矮墙坐凳、分层的种植形式和照明设备缓解了的长三角形场地的尴尬。
公园内的混凝土道路是以相邻城市人行道上的网格为参照，但上面绘画的是大块面随意的“牛奶泡沫”以模糊公园和街道之间的界限。道路弯曲着穿过公园，离开街区的人们可由此通过。广场和种植区被一系列混凝土制作的曲线形矮墙坐凳分割开来。矮墙坐凳沿着缅因街，坐凳以长条形连续的黄杉木为靠背。种植区缓和了公园内部和繁忙街道的关系。在种植区内，超过90%的现有行道树都被保留下来，并通过加深土壤厚度和改善灌溉系统来保证提高树木的成活。
公园的标志是“曲折的吸管架”。“吸管架”北部，设计了与之呼应的红色酒吧高脚凳。这些元素都是用钢铁制作的。Hapa与钢铁制作者密切合作，以确保它的“吸管”设计理念能够成功。“吸管”会发出嗡嗡声，让公园显得更加独特，使这个社区在顷刻间令人难忘。
译者：筑龙网 饭团小组
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.
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.
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.
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.
