波士顿海港岛馆和旋转木马丨美国波士顿丨Utile

这种战略适应的玫瑰Fitzgerald Greenway的一个块对国家公园服务教育亭与一个新的转盘灵感来自儿童的区域动物的插图。新的种植和修订的流通策略为快速出现的城市走廊形成了一个新的活动中心。

国家公园局和波士顿海港群岛联盟联合委托这一教育和娱乐景观。一个凸起的和稍微加冠的草坪包裹构成了一系列由Utile设计的超薄铸造混凝土外壳结构。这些露天建筑方便了公众与公园管理员的互动，并为港口岛渡轮票务。在暴风雨期间，这些壳溢出并瀑布成花岗岩砌块。雨水为场地的城市景观，包括密集和多样化的树冠，为行人提供遮荫，以及为鸟类提供食物和掩护。花岗岩块座椅保护访客从绿道交通和注意解说标志周围的展馆。

相邻的Greenway Carousel和Tiffany＆Co. Foundation Grove提供了一个非常理想的目的地舒适设施，周围环绕着舒适的公共座位。旋转木马有十四个不同的字符，原产于波士顿港的陆地，海洋和天空，包括海龟，三种类型的蝴蝶，旅游猎鹰，海豹和由Newburyport工匠Jeff Briggs创造的鲸鱼。围绕Greenway Carousel的Tiffany＆Co. Foundation Grove的花园营造了一个美丽，温馨的环境，四季种植，舒适的座位和过滤的树荫。

海港群岛馆和Carousel Grove项目表明，对关键地点的城市结构进行适度的，渐进的适应会产生巨大的影响。

This strategic adaptation of a block of the Rose Fitzgerald Greenway pairs a National Park Service education pavilion with a new carousel inspired by children’s illustrations of regional animals. New plantings and revised circulation strategies shape a new center of activity for a quickly emerging urban corridor.

The National Park Service and the Boston Harbor Islands Alliance jointly commissioned this educational and recreational landscape. A raised and slightly crowned lawn parcel frames a series of ultra-thin cast-concrete shell structures designed by Utile. These open-air buildings facilitate the public’s interactions park rangers and ticketing for the Harbor Islands ferry. During rain storms, these shells overflow and cascade into a granite splash block. Rainwater feeds the site’s urban landscape, including a dense and diverse canopy of trees providing shade for pedestrians, and food and cover for birds. Granite block seats shelter visitors from Greenway traffic and focus attention on interpretive signage around the pavilion.

The adjacent Greenway Carousel and Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove offer a highly desirable destination amenity surrounded by comfortable public seating. The Carousel features fourteen different characters native to the land, sea and sky of Boston Harbor, including a sea turtle, three types of butterflies, a peregrine falcon, a harbor seal, and a whale, created by Newburyport artisan Jeff Briggs. The gardens in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove that surround the Greenway Carousel create a beautiful, welcoming environment with four season plantings, comfortable seating and filtered shade.

The Harbor Islands Pavilion and Carousel Grove project demonstrates that modest, incremental adaptations to the urban fabric at key locations can have enormous impact.