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曾经是太平洋海岸线的一部分，威尔明顿社区与洛杉矶港的滨水区断开了联系-这是一个新兴的、多样化的工业海上设施组合。在完成威尔明顿滨水区总体规划后，佐佐木确定了三个可供实施的开放空间：威明顿海滨公园、阿瓦隆北街景观和阿瓦隆南滨水公园。

Once a part of the Pacific coastline, the Wilmington community became disconnected from the waterfront by the Port of Los Angeles—a burgeoning, diverse mix of industrial maritime facilities. After completing the Wilmington Waterfront Master Plan, Sasaki identified three open spaces for implementation: the Wilmington Waterfront Park, the Avalon North Streetscape, and the Avalon South Waterfront Park.

威尔明顿海滨公园是第一个全面实施的项目。这座新的城市公园建在一个占地30英亩的棕地上，使社区恢复活力，并在视觉上将社区与滨水区重新连接起来。公园综合了各种主动和被动的用途-非正式游戏、公众聚会、社区活动、野餐、坐着、散步和观察-这是通过广泛的社区外联过程确定的。开放空间作为一个公共设施，增加了现有社区的开放空间，同时也缓冲了威尔明顿社区从广泛的港口业务到南方。

The Wilmington Waterfront Park is the first project to be fully implemented. Built on a 30-acre brownfield site, the new urban park revitalizes the community and visually reconnects it to the waterfront. The park integrates a variety of active and passive uses—informal play, public gathering, community events, picnicking, sitting, strolling, and observation—determined through an extensive community outreach process. The open space serves as a public amenity by doubling the current community open space while also buffering the Wilmington community from the extensive port operations to the south.

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为了保护社区公园不受港口的影响，佐佐木创造了一个强大的雕塑地貌，将现有的社区平面等级提升到16英尺。这片土地整合了一系列多用途的操场，其中有点缀着阴影的、平缓的草坡.在地形之上，埃尔帕西奥步行街提供了一个主要的组成部分，行人线路的座位，展示花园，和共享用途的行人和自行车路径连接到加州海岸小径。

In order to protect the community park from the port's impacts, Sasaki created a strong sculptural landform which elevates the existing planar grade of the neighborhood to 16 feet. This land integrates a series of multipurpose playfields with shade-dappled, gentle grass slopes. Atop the landform, the El Paseo Promenade provides a primary component of the pedestrian circuit with seating, display gardens, and a shared use pedestrian and bicycle path linked to the California Coastal Trail.

绿树成荫的步行街延伸了公园的行人环路和弯道网络，提供了各种休息、沉思和观赏公园活动的座位，包括互动水上设施、儿童冒险游乐场、聚会和表演广场，以及在树林中野餐。基准步道提供了一个穿过公园和连接两个公园展台的中心人行轴。展馆的框架室外客房提供各种非正式的座位，阴凉处，干燥的优惠，公共厕所，和三个灵活的，正式的表演场地。

Tree-lined promenades extend the park's network of pedestrian circuits and meanders, offering a variety of seating for respite, contemplation, and viewing park activities including interactive water features, an adventure playground for children, plazas for gathering and performances, and picnicking within the tree groves. A Datum Walk provides a central pedestrian axis traversing the park and connecting two park pavilions. The pavilions frame outdoor rooms that offer a variety of informal seating, shade, a dry concession, public restrooms, and three flexible, formal performance venues.

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佐佐木将可持续的设计实践和创新的工程技术融入到整个项目中。雨水管理引导水进入主要景观区，以促进渗透，而不是市政处理，拆除的铺路被地面和再利用作为铺设子基地，所有植物材料被选择为生态适应、土著或耐盐，并由再生水灌溉。建筑和场地照明突出了公园的关键要素，通过高光效降低了能源需求和光污染。沿着港口的工业边缘，形成露台墙壁的五颜六色的平面上涂上了氧化钛，这将有害的空气污染物转化为惰性有机化合物-创新的光催化技术。

Sasaki integrated sustainable design practices and innovative engineering technologies into the overall project. Stormwater management directs water to primary landscape zones to promote infiltration rather than municipal treatment, demolished paving was ground and reused for paving sub-base, and all plant materials were selected as ecologically adapted, indigenous, or salt tolerant and irrigated by reclaimed water . Building and site lighting highlights key park elements, reducing energy demands and light pollution through high optical efficacy. Along the port's industrial edge, colorful planes forming the terrace walls are coated with titanium oxide , which transforms harmful air pollutants to inert organic compounds innovative photocatalytic technology.