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赵江

架构师提供的文本描述。艺术广场坐落在苏州，无数的运河作为城市的基本基础设施和几千年来公共空间的框架。这项设计最初是在一个新建商业区中心的地下羽毛球大厅上方的屋顶天窗上进行的。

Text description provided by the architects. The ARTS Plaza is located in Suzhou where countless canals have been serving as both the essential infrastructure for the city and the framework for public space for millenniums. The design was originally commissioned as a pair of roof skylights above an underground badminton hall at the center of a newly constructed business district.

 Floor Plan

通过扩展支撑天窗玻璃面板的结构钢板，一系列超大的钢排水沟被折叠成景观特征。沿着每一条折叠式沟槽的一侧，一张木制的长凳盖住了钢质的窗台。就像历史上通往这座城市的运河一样，这些钢质沟渠在雨中庆祝水流，现场干预为人们提供了一个永久的公共空间。两个天窗之间的高架木平台充当儿童游乐场和城市舞台。

By extending the structural steel plates that hold the skylight glass panels, a series of oversized steel gutters are folded into landscape features. Along the side of each folded trench, a wood bench caps the steel ledge. Like the historical canals to the city, these steel trenches celebrate the water flow during the rain and the site intervention offers a permanent public space. An elevated wooden platform between the two skylights acts as a children’s playground and an urban stage.

 © Zhao Jiang

赵江

该工程材料，半英寸厚的钢板，实木，鹅卵石，石镶嵌在台阶上，竹子，代表了中国的五大元素。钢板在附近的一家造船厂被弯曲和激光切割，并被来自农场的训练有素的季节性工人焊接在现场。这些木长凳是FSC认证的，是在离现场40英里的一个村庄手工制作的。

The project materials, ½ inch thick steel plate, solid wood, pebbles, stone inlays at the step, and bamboo, represent the five Chinese elements. The steel plate was bent and laser cut in a shipyard nearby and welded on site by trained seasonal workers from the farm. The wood bench tops are FSC certified and were hand made in a village 40 miles from the site.

 © Zhao Jiang

赵江

 © Zhao Jiang

赵江

在附近的一个地铁站建成后，并随后在周围办公大楼的街道上开设商店，这个项目将把一个私人拥有的广场改造成一个充满活力的公共空间。

Upon the completion of a subway station nearby and the subsequent opening of stores at the street level of the surrounding office towers, this project will transform a privately owned plaza into a vibrant public space.

 © Zhao Jiang

赵江

Architects Atelier HAY + Drury University

Location Ba Da Jie, Wuzhong Qu, Suzhou Shi, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 215123

Category Plaza

Architect in Charge Yong Huang, AIA

Design Team Miranda Middleton + Juan Zorrilla Baquero, students of Drury University

Project Year 2015

Photographs Zhao Jiang