工业城市庭院

布鲁克林工业城的新兴景观包括“消失点”，一个33,000平方英尺的庭院，旨在捕捉后工业空间的规模和景观。庭院的西端在三面由六层建筑封闭，朝Gowanus湾开放，提供日落美景和瞥见自由女神像。

建筑群和庭院现在由“创新胡同”，一个中央行人脊椎。庭院3-4的设计理念迫使朝向胡同的视角。当游客从第二大道的入口到达时，种植者的墙壁将你的眼睛拉向庭院中心的凸起的交叉点。同样的戏剧发生在庭院的东端，种植设计和树木以镜像的角度拉向这个中心脊柱。项目预算要求使用价格便宜的材料，用于五到七年的寿命，设计和施工进度缩短到只有10个月。

蕨类植物的柔软度和种植调色板的质地与项目的工业环境相反。种植在定向的条纹，并且调色板由单调绿色补充整个空间的大量和大量。柱状槭树玩弄建筑柱的重复，以及工业烟囱和通风管道残余物。树木显示美丽的红色秋天的颜色，将不可避免地补充庭院中的风化钢结构。

The emerging landscapes in Brooklyn’s Industry City include “Vanishing Point,” a 33,000 sf courtyard designed to capture the scale of, and views within, a post-industrial space. Enclosed on three sides by six-story buildings, the west end of the courtyard is open toward the Gowanus Bay, providing sunset views and a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.

The building complex and courtyards are now linked by “Innovation Alley,” a central pedestrian spine. The design concept for Courtyard 3-4 forces the perspective toward the alley. As visitors arrive from the entrance along Second Avenue, the planter walls pull your eye toward the raised intersection at the center of the courtyard. The same play occurs from the east end of the courtyard where the planting design and trees pull toward this center spine in a mirrored perspective. The project budget called for the use of inexpensive materials intended for a five-to-seven year lifespan with the design and construction schedule condensed into just 10 months.

The softness of the ferns and fine texture of the planting palette contrast with the project’s industrial context. The plantings are laid out in directional swaths, and the palette consists of monotone greens to complement the large mass and immensity of the overall space. Columnar maple trees play off of the repetition of the building columns as well as the industrial smoke stacks and ventilation pipe remnants. The trees display beautiful red fall color that will inevitably complement the weathering steel forms in the courtyard.