旧金山探索博物馆丨GLS景观建筑公司

America Francisco San in exploratorium

设计方：GLS景观建筑公司

位置：美国 旧金山

分类：未归类园林工程实例

内容：实景照片

图片：10张

新的探索博物馆是一个耗资300万美元的LEED黄金评级的项目，它为GLS景观建筑公司带来了一个绝佳的机会：在旧金山水滨建造一片全新的公共空间。项目占地达10万平方英尺，仅仅包含硬质景观。项目有很多极具挑战性的技术问题以及紧凑的工期，它是要将一个破旧的装卸码头以及两个其他码头改造成包括广场、人行道、桥梁在内的中心湖。博物馆展示的收集品支撑着其长期的目标：促进人们对于自然的好奇。GLS因此不仅要设计动态的不显眼的耐久硬质景观元素，还要将展览融入设计，使策展人员能够在需要的时候修改这些项目。两座横跨中心湖的人行桥足以容纳为博物馆专门制作的艺术品。认识到这里的潮汐与地震活动，GLS为两座桥梁设计了创新的弹簧、辊、和铰链的栏杆系统。这些细节设计减轻了一个码头对另一个码头的影响以及码头活动对于内陆的影响。GLS拆除了一部分广场以抗震加固。2011年，在项目完工之前，它就已经获得了ASLA北加利福尼亚地区的优秀奖。

译者: 柒柒

The new Exploratorium, a $300 million LEED Gold project, brought GLS a rare opportunity: to create an entirely new public space on San Francisco’s waterfront. The GLS scope, at 100,000 square feet, consisted solely of hardscape and was aligned as much with the structural engineering as with the architecture. This project, with numerous technical challenges and a fast-paced schedule, transformed a crumbling loading dock and two piers into a central lagoon with plazas, promenades, and bridges. The Exploratorium’s extensive exhibits collection supports its longstanding mission: to incite curiosity about science. GLS thus needed not only to design dynamic, unobtrusive, and durable hardscape elements—it needed to integrate exhibits (and their mounting hardware and utilities) into that design and to allow curatorial staff to modify the programming where necessary. The two pedestrian bridges spanning the lagoon accommodate permanent artworks made specifically for the museum, with one bridge offering ports for electricity and data. Recognizing the tidal and seismic activity in the area, GLS designed and incorporated into both bridges an innovative railing system of springs, rollers, and hinges offering up to four feet of movement at key points.

These details mitigate the motion of one pier against the other (as connected by the bridges) and the movement of the piers against the mainland. Elsewhere GLS stripped away a section of the plaza surface to reveal elements of the site’s seismic retrofit, highlighting for the public the principles behind structural engineering. GLS’ work on this project received an Excellence Award from the Northern California Chapter of the ASLA in 2011, prior to the project’s completion.

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