DC Ale·ander公园丨Brooks + Scarpa

作为一个极端的海岸沙滩环境，公园场地必须应对洪水与持续的盐雾侵蚀。项目在申报许可和防洪方面面临多重挑战。© Brooks + Scarpa

As an extreme coastal beach environment, the park site must solve for flooding and constant salt spray. The park had to solve for multiple issues related to permitting and flooding.

▼项目鸟瞰，aerial view of the project© Brooks + Scarpa

作为劳德代尔堡（Fort Lauderdale）持续推进的韧性基础设施与公共领域提升工程的一部分，DC Alexander公园将一处原本的停车场更新为一片充满活力且具有韧性的公共空间，服务于游客与居民。项目旨在为位于南佛罗里达易受影响的海岸线带来绿色与韧性的基础设施再投资。设计通过重新引入与诠释滨海沙丘和热带海岸硬木林生态系统，将原先的沥青停车场“植被化”。其陆侧海岸生态系统同时包含种植的“根部”沙丘与橡胶化铺装，这些构造既能保护陆侧设施免受风暴潮侵袭，也作为无障碍的“无界”游乐景观。

▼设计策略，design strategy© Brooks + Scarpa

As part of ongoing resilient infrastructure and public realm improvements in Fort Lauderdale, DC Alexander Park repurposes a former parking lot into a vibrant and resilient public space for tourists and residents. The park serves to reinvest in green and resilient infrastructure along the vulnerable shoreline of coastal South Florida. The project “botanizes” the previous asphalt parking lot through the reintegration and interpretation of coastal dune and tropical maritime hardwood hammock ecosystems. The upland coastal ecosystem includes both vegetated “root” dunes and rubberized surfaces to protect landward investments from storm surge as well as serve as “boundless” playscape.

▼将原先的沥青停车场“植被化”，“botanizes” the previous asphalt parking lot© Brooks + Scarpa

▼种植的“根部”沙丘与橡胶化铺装，vegetated “root” dunes and rubberized surfaces© Brooks + Scarpa

▼充满活力且具有韧性的公共空间，

a vibrant and resilient public space for tourists and residents© Brooks + Scarpa

▼无障碍的“无界”游乐景观，serve as “boundless” playscape© Brooks + Scarpa

在公园边缘，一片重建的硬木林生态作为“海绵”吸收雨水与咸潮内涝，同时为低强度休闲空间及本土动物的关键栖息地提供支持。一条逐级抬升的沙丘路径让游客在缓步上升的过程中体验高程变化，最终抵达一处25英尺（约7.6米）悬挑的观景平台，俯瞰海滩与大海。这个悬挑构筑既是韧性基础设施的一部分，也是公共艺术与体验式景观的元素。观景平台与相连的坡道通过通用无障碍设计实现所有访客的平等使用。▼轴测图，axonometric© Brooks + Scarpa

At the perimeter of the park, a re-established hammock serves as a sponge for rainfall and saltwater flooding while providing for passive park recreation and critical habitat development for native fauna. A ramping dune provides park-goers to experience the elevation changes while moving up to a twenty-five foot cantilevered overlook of the beach and ocean. This cantilevered overlook becomes part of the resilient infrastructure, as well as provides a public art and experiential landscape element. The overlook and corresponding ramp have been designed to create universal accessibility of the site for all users.

▼俯瞰海滩与大海的观景平台，

overlook of the beach and ocean from the viewing platform© Brooks + Scarpa

▼沙丘路径让游客缓步上升，

A ramping dune provides park-goers to experience the elevation changes © Brooks + Scarpa

▼俯瞰大海的观景平台，the viewing platform overlook the sea© Brooks + Scarpa

公园北侧的滨海广场通过共享空间设计来减缓车流，并营造一片“遮荫林冠”。穿透林冠洒落的斑驳光影以本地植物塑造而成，包括：海桑（Green Buttonwood）、胶木（Gumbo Limbo）与海葡萄（Seagrape）等。

A coastal plaza to the north creates a shared space to calm traffic and provide a “shade hammock”. The dappled light through the shade hammock creates a dramatic effect using native and indigenous plant species like; Green Buttonwood, Gumbo Limbo and Seagrape.

▼观景平台下的遮阴空间，the shadowed space under the viewing platform© Brooks + Scarpa

公园中的各个元素旨在提供针对海岸洪水与未来海平面上升的关键基础设施，同时也能被视为一种公共艺术表达。目前在劳德代尔堡，全市普遍采用硬质防护基础设施，如海堤和护岸结构，但它们常常显得粗糙、不美观。DC Alexander公园的主要目标，是成为具有示范意义的转型案例，展示设计如何兼具美学、功能性与可持续的财政投入。

The elements through the park are intended to provide critical infrastructure related to coastal flooding and future sea-level rise resilience, but also be seen as a public art form. Currently throughout Fort Lauderdale, hardened infrastructure, like seawalls and revetments, become unsightly and the main goal of DC Alexander Park is to serve as a transformational model to showcase designs roll to provide aesthetic, functional and fiscally responsible design.

▼设计策略，design strategy© Brooks + Scarpa

▼设计策略，design strategy© Brooks + Scarpa

▼平面图，plan© Brooks + Scarpa

Project’s Formal Name: DC Alexander Park

Location of Project: 501 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316

Client/Owner: City of Fort Lauderdale, Community Redevelopment Agency and Parks and Recreation 701 S. Andrews Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 954-828-7275

Total Square Footage: 52,300 SF

Total Cost: $5,000,000

Completed: 2022

Architects: Brooks + Scarpa

Project Team: Brooks + Scarpa Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA – Lead Designer, Jeffrey Huber, FAIA – Principal-n-Charge, Daren Chen – Project Architect, Angela Brooks, FAIA, Heather Akers, David Garcia, Dionicio Ichillumpa, Eric Mosher, Iliya Muzychuk, Zachary Schoch, Arty Vartanyan, Yimin Wu – Project Design Team

Landscape: PLAN(t) and Keith Engineering

Engineering: RGD– Structural Engineering RGD – Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Sasso – Lighting Design Keith Engineering – Civil Engineering Security – Brooks + Scarpa Keith Engineering – Geotechnical

Wayfinding: Brooks + Scarpa

Contractor: Shiff Construction

Specifications: Brooks + Scarpa and Keith Engineering

Façade Engineering: Brooks + Scarpa with Becher Neme

Photography: Brooks + Scarpa (as noted)