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盖茨基金会园区的景观设计将西雅图中心受污染的12英亩停车场改造成为全球合作和地方参与的生态环境和景观设计可持续发展的典范。 & V0 q+ F7 T8 P0 m
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景观设计师和建筑师将科技园区设计为可以让员工们交流的空间,给周边社区带来活力,满足科技园区扎根本土的全球性使命。
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中央广场是科技园区的心脏,提供活动区域并连接各个园区建筑物。设计之前,基金会园区所处地点是一个12英亩的停车场,被主要道路与周边隔断。随着时间的推移,工业活动将科技园区污染成为有毒化学品的沼泽,最终表面覆盖着一层沥青。这种风景的硬化造成了此处的孤立退化。; n M9 q: S0 s6 d0 ]% P
从一开始景观设计团队就面临着挑战,既要为科技园区多样化的员工和客户提供全球化的资源以及和谐的环境。又要让科技园区成为连接周边已有景观区域的活跃地块。
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景观设计团队按照互补性原则景观设计开发建筑和景观。在地面上,通过材料和植物在原先的沼泽地上建成裙房,为整个场所提供了连续性,还可以恢复之前失去的自然环境和生态功能。景观设计师给周边带来了长期以来没有的街道和舒适的人行道。街景景观设计的基础上围绕着添加座椅、公共艺术、并沿边缘种植植物来强化现有街道。安全墙融入座椅元素和现场陈设。同样关注材料和园区内部细节景观设计延伸到边缘周围的公共空间。
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6 q/ u2 L- ?! Y 在园区内,雨水收集系统在景观中的应用是设计的亮点,景观结合了独立建筑物,为会议和活动提供了空间,还可以作为建筑物之间的日常通道。中心有一个绿树成荫的广场轻轻地浮在很深的水池上,作为园区的心脏。广场通过栈桥连接科技园区的会议空间,增加偶遇和停留的机会。在这片场地上,如同水草般的草甸厚厚地分布在阳光照射的区域。背阴区种植着本地和外来的蕨类植物,原生常绿越橘和森林地被植物。
% I" b" D' K. _# \ 科技园区景观设计精美,优雅细致,是城市科技园区的新模式。科技园区改变了员工与空间的互动方式。
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The design concept expresses complementary principles of global mission and local roots through a layering of landscape and buildings. Global mission and express the Foundations aspirations, while the local ground reconnects the site to the city and provides a community for employees.
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1 M+ E: K# z7 i- b# _ f Phase One construction is shown shortly after completion. The campus design turns a historic void into a green urban anchor.
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" I# t9 @% t6 V* {, W Surrounding streetscapes and campus edges provide opportunities for public engagement. Campus materials and planting palette extends out to the street and security barriers are integrated into the benches and seat-walls.Photo Credit: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol The 12-acre campus is located near downtown Seattle bordered by Seattle Center and two major roads.
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Densely planted "local ground" provides a most intimate setting at the waters edge. Since moving into the new campus, employees have found that using the outdoor workspaces increases productivity and improves their personal health.
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The design of the central rainwater pool is inspired by the bogs that once covered this region. The striking contrast between the dark water and the glowing planted edge frames the central space.
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, q K( D- o* \9 M5 F) `( E- F; s To enhance the sense of being grounded on a site that is actually over structure, the design conveys the illusion of thick, dark earth underfoot, with natural textures of salvaged and domestically sourced paving stones.
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Custom formliners were used on the faces of dark concrete retaining walls at water edges and along sidewalks to abstractly imply cuts through dense slab of moist, peaty ground.
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$ b; n2 j7 v2 m) Y+ N5 W& _ The landscape is instrumental in achieving the clients primary goal of building a campus that supports their employees productivity. Because many employees travel extensively, a daily connection to light, weather, and seasonal change is essential.
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; k' j8 q; u: M, K Nearly 100% of rainwater from non-pollutant generating hard surfaces in the campus is collected into a rainwater cistern below the central courtyard that conserves up to 2 million gallons of water annually.
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Since opening, birds have returned to the area, including multiple families of nesting ducks and a Great Blue Heron that regularly visits, to the delight of employees.
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