达拉斯变电站艺术空间

“这是一个简介明晰的设计。无论是材料的选择、活跃的氛围还是绝妙的细部设计都让人不禁心生好感。”

——2016年评审委员会

“A simple execution. The choice of materials, the sense of playfulness, and funky details make this a very likable project.”

– 2016 Awards Jury

项目陈述 PROJECT STATEMENT

The Power Station改建自达拉斯一座已有近百年历史的电力照明变电站，坐拥室内外两部分的艺术展览空间，并为客席艺术家提供居住空间，而居于其中的非营利机构也会不时邀请艺术家为这座粗犷而古老的建筑量身打造作品。曾经的工业建筑中孕育出一个被繁盛植被簇拥的小画廊，而其浓厚的工业色彩与传统的画廊或是博物馆空间产生了鲜明对比，为展览空间提供了另一种可能性。碎片化的建筑元素让建筑与景观融为了一体，再通过肆意生长的茂盛植被为空间增添更多的灵动。在达拉斯这个对新建建筑极为推崇的城市，设计团队以其独特的设计手法，向人们展示了经过精心修复的历史建筑在形式与功能的无限可能性。

The Power Station is an indoor/outdoor art exhibition space, guest artist’s residence, and not-for-profit organization that invites artists to respond to the raw character of the architecture, a historic, 1926 Dallas Power & Light electrical substation. Here an urban garden gallery has sprung to life within the former industrial compound, healing it back to a semblance of what it may have been before. The building and garden relate to one another gently through the careful manipulation of crisp architectural elements that are then intentionally eroded by more informal, lush plant material. The project is a welcomed reminder that a thoughtful renovation of historical building and site can generate spaces that provide both form and function.

△ 总平面图，Site plan

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

项目说明 PROJECT NARRATIVE

The Power Station改建自达拉斯一座已有近百年历史的电力照明变电站，坐拥室内外两部分的艺术展览空间，并为客席艺术家提供居住空间，而居于其中的非营利机构也会不时邀请艺术家为这座粗犷而古老的建筑量身打造作品。曾经的工业建筑中孕育出一个被繁盛植被簇拥的小画廊， 向世人展示着多年以前这片土地曾经的模样。

The Power Station向人们展示了长远目光与创意结合时所带来的无限可能性，也因此成为了达拉斯城中众人皆知的修复性设计项目。而设计团队对建筑外部空间的开发与功能规划的重视程度毫不逊色与其对建筑本身的修复。在庭院设计中，团队着重考虑了从建筑内部向外眺望时的观赏角度与感受，不同形式的硬质铺地交错穿插，而在外侧，植被高低错落，对内部空间形成一定的遮掩与保护。由碎骨料、碎石、再生混凝土、钢材与本土植被组合而成的庭院简洁现代，与细节丰富的古老建筑形成了有趣对比的同时，让建筑完全融入了景观之中。

这座位于前往Santa Fe自行车与漫步道必经之路上的建筑为来往的人潮带来了独特的城市街道空间体验。在场地的东侧，一道现场浇筑的混凝土矮墙平行于建筑立面，进一步强调了内部空间与街道的界限，同时也为建筑围合出一块简单的小场地，作为室内空间向外的延伸。艺术家Jacob Kassay的参与为空间增添了一分优雅的雕塑感。设计团队保留了大部分的混凝土铺地，仅仅稍作更改，便带来了焕然一新的街景设计。部分混凝土地面经过钻孔，井然有序的圆形小孔不仅为植被生长预留出空间，也为雨水下渗提供了更多的途径。而钻出的圆形混凝土小块也被铺设在入口处，物尽其用。

纤细的钢柱整齐划一的排列在一起，在场地西侧形成了一道划分内外空间的屏障，但同时也丝毫没有遮挡外界看向花园的视野。随着太阳的缓缓移动，钢柱在花园内投下变幻的光与影，为安静的空间带来一些活力。极富雕刻感的材料选择不仅增强了场所的尺度感，也让这个小小的室外庭院更为实用。一个多余的混凝土竖井被放置在室外，成为了小小的雨水花园，被欣欣向荣的鸢尾、莎草与木贼所覆盖。暴露出来的钢筋仿佛将墙面缝在了一起，也让这“旧物”与全新的环境形成有趣的对比。此外，这处巧妙的设计也增加了这片后工业场地的渗透性，就地收集消化雨水，为城市雨洪系统减轻负担。

设计团队在场地中大量使用了源自本土或者适应性极强的植被，并通过减少灌溉系统的覆盖范围直接表达其对可持续水资源管理的态度。一颗豆科小灌木如雕塑般孤独地耸立在花园的入口处，“把守”着大门与其后的楼梯空间。一丛丛仙人掌则镇守着基地的南侧与东侧，其独特的形态如同一幅幅抽象画，为城市道路添加一份独特的空间体验。在建筑西侧，攀缘植物沿着墙壁迅速生长繁衍，绿意将四层高的楼梯体量覆盖得严严实实，在为内部空间提供安全感与私密感的同时，为楼梯以及建筑遮挡去德州炙热的西晒阳光。

小小的现代都市花园将这片曾经的工业遗址转化为了兼具私密性与实用性，适用于各种活动的宜人花园。碎片化的建筑元素让建筑与景观融为了一体，再通过肆意生长的茂盛植被为空间增添更多的灵动。在达拉斯这个对新建建筑极为推崇的城市，设计团队以其独特的设计手法，向人们展示了经过精心修复的历史建筑在形式与功能的无限可能性。

△ 艺术装置，Art Installation

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 街道视角，Exterior view from street  Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 俯瞰西侧花园，West courtyard view from above

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 纤细的钢柱以及被绿意覆盖的楼梯体量，View of cantilevered steel picket fence and vine covered stair tower

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 仙人掌，混凝土矮墙，碎石以及钢柱，Cactus, concrete wall, stone rip rap, and steel

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 东侧庭院与艺术装置，East court yard and art installation

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 穿孔混凝土车道以及大门，Cored concrete drive and gate

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 开幕式，Power Station art opening

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 仙人掌，碎骨料以及重复利用的混凝土圆形石块，Frog fruit and spineless prickly pear cactus, crushed aggregate, and repurposed concrete cores

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 绿意覆盖的楼梯空间以及整理排列的钢柱护栏，Green screen at stair tower and vertical steel picket fence  Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 再利用的工业元件点明场地的历史，Repurposed industrial parts as site elements

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 东侧庭院入口，Entrance to east courtyard  Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 开幕式，Power Station art opening

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

△ 建筑与其周边环境，View from street and neighborhood context

Photo Credit: Adolfo Cantu-Villareal

The Power Station is an indoor/outdoor art exhibition space, guest artist’s residence, and not-for-profit organization that invites artists to respond to the raw character of the architecture, a historic, 1926 Dallas Power & Light electrical substation. The post-industrial spaces offer an alternative to the traditional gallery or museum context. Here an urban garden gallery has sprung to life within the former industrial compound.

The Power Station is a significant and prominent Dallas restoration, demonstrating what can happen when vision and creativity are at the helm of the process. Programming and development of the site’s exterior spaces were as important to the success of the project as was the architectural restoration of the building. Much of the garden’s design originated from studying the views from inside the building with selective use of both hardscape and plant material for screening. Juxtaposed with the historic architectural details of the substation, the garden’s aesthetic incorporates simple modern element constructed from a restrained materials palette of crushed aggregate and rip rap, architectural and recycled concrete, steel, and native plantings. The continual patination of these materials ties aging but timeless architecture to garden in a complimentary fashion.

The exterior of the compound presents a unique urban streetscape experience for the flow of pedestrians travelling by on their way to the Santa Fe Trail, a bicycling and running trail. Along the eastern flank a cast-in-place concrete wall reinforces the parallel building face and street edge, while creating a minimalist outdoor room as an extension of the building’s interior. A collaborative effort with artist Jacob Kassay resulted in an elegant sculptural intervention in this space. Much of the existing concrete pavement was retained and creatively incorporated into the new streetscape design. A section of the existing concrete was core drilled in a grid to create holes for plant interventions and increased permeability. The core drills are repurposed at the main entry, an exercise in reclamation and reuse.

Securing the interior garden space is beautifully articulated steel picket fence. It creates a physical barrier along the west while maintaining visual porosity into the gardens. The vertical cantilevered pickets animate the site with shadows as the sun crosses the site throughout the seasons. This sculptural use of materials increases the sense of scale, and therefore the functionality of the small exterior courtyards. An unused, remnant concrete shaft is exposed and planted with iris, sedges, and horsetail reed as slightly sunken rainwater garden. The exposed steel rebar “stiches” of the walls create an interesting contrast of old versus new. This is another of several minimal interventions that increases permeability across the post-industrial site, allowing absorption of rainwater and minimizing run-off discharge to the city stormwater system.

The site was healed back with extensive native and adapted plant material. Areas were strategically left unirrigated for a straightforward sustainable approach to site water management. A lone Mesquite Tree becomes a sculptural element announcing the entrance to the gardens and stair tower beyond. A colony of xeric, spineless prickly pear consumes the south and east side of the site providing an unusual and continuous graphic texture along the city sidewalks. A matrix of seasonal vine species were used on a chain-link enclosed four-story stair tower where they quickly engulfed the vertical surfaces to create a towering green enclosure. The vines provide the sense of privacy and security, and help shade the stair and building against the west Texas sun.

This small contemporary urban garden healed-back a former industrial site, and had simple program requirements of privacy and usability. The building and garden relate to one another gently through the careful manipulation of crisp architectural elements that are then intentionally eroded by more informal, lush plant material. In Dallas where new construction is typically preferred, this project is a welcomed reminder that a thoughtful renovation of historical building and site can generate spaces that provide both form and function.

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