MVRDV在伦敦海德公园“造山”，开放观景新视野，活力复兴牛津街

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MVRDV近日揭晓了 「 大 理石拱门山丘 」 的设计方案，它位于伦敦市著名的大理石拱门（Marble Arch）旁，是一座临时的景观装置，意在为整片街区增添新的吸引力，预计2021年7月正式开放。大理石拱门山丘内部中空，搭建在脚手架结构之上，它将重新定义牛津街和海德公园之间的联系，同时为游客提供全新的视角来观赏公园和大理石拱门的风景。

MVRDV today reveals “Marble Arch Hill”, a temporary installation next to London’s Marble Arch that will add a new attraction to the area beginning in July this year. A hollowed-out mountain based on a scaffolding structure, Marble Arch Hill will redefine the connection between Oxford Street and Hyde Park while giving visitors rare views over the park and Marble Arch.

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作为欧洲最繁忙的购物街，牛津街受到疫情的影响尤为严重。政府正在制定未来的规划，意图为牛津街打造更多样化的空间，但计划的实施需要数年的时间才能够完成；而短期内，威斯敏斯特市政府希望通过临时装置制造新的趣味空间，助力城市逐渐摆脱疫情的影响，为该地区注入新的活力。

As Europe’s busiest shopping street, Oxford Street has been hit particularly hard by Covid-19 measures. Plans are underway to diversify the street’s spaces over the coming years, but these changes will take a number of years. In the short term, Westminster City Council sought to use a temporary installation to create renewed interest in the area as London could be emerging from the conditions imposed by the pandemic.

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MVRDV的设计灵感源自场地本身的历史和记忆。大理石拱门曾经是海德公园的一座地标，但在二十世纪六十年代，由于增加了新的道路，拱门被孤立，形成一座交通岛，与公园的其他部分断开了联系。MVRDV的设计引入了公园般的草木景观，通过“抬升”的动作创造了一个25米高的壮观装置，游客们可以在此饱览牛津街和海德公园的全景，也可以通过新的视角观赏大理石拱门的全貌。

 

MVRDV’s proposal for this installation takes inspiration from the history of the site. Marble Arch once marked the corner of Hyde Park, but in the 1960s new roads were added that turned the arch into a traffic island, disconnected from the rest of the park. MVRDV’s design introduces a park-like landscape of grass and trees, and ‘lifts’ this recreated corner of Hyde Park to create a spectacular 25-metre-tall viewpoint that gives visitors an overview of Oxford Street and the park, and a new perspective on Marble Arch itself.

 延伸公园面积 

 the extended park 

  抬升公园高度 

 the lifted park 

  中空的山体 

 the hill offset 

 山丘和拱门的位置关系 

 the hill and the arch  

MVRDV设计了一条连续的路线贯穿大理石拱门山丘的内外。参观者将通过蜿蜒的路径爬上山丘的南坡，到达观景点，然后进入山丘中心的大厅，大厅内可举办展览和其他活动。大厅的出口位于“山丘”一处的凹角，刻意与大理石拱门保持差异。这样，参观者可以通过更多的视角来观赏大理石拱门，从而对这座 历史遗迹获得新的感受和认识。

Marble Arch Hill will be experienced via a single continuous route. Visitors will climb to the viewpoint via a path that winds its way up the hill’s southern slope, after which they will descend into a great Hall in the heart of the hill, a hollowed-out space that will be used for events, exhibitions, and other happenings. The exit from the Hall is located in a notch in the corner of the hill that ensures the temporary structure is offset from Marble Arch. In thisway, visitors are confronted with multiple views on the arch, giving them a new perspective on an object they might otherwise take for granted.

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“ 这个项目可以激活大理石拱门这座地标，对伦敦这座城市来说，是一个非常好的机会。项目基地存在着诸多矛盾的元素，而我们的设计就聚焦在这种矛盾的关系之上。通过添加山丘的景观元素，我们强调了大理石拱门所处的地理位置，通过研究基地的历史，我们对它的未来开展想象。扩大了公园的尺度，并在拐角处将其“抬起”。山丘烘托了拱门的存在感，并以此加强了牛津街和公园之间的联系。这座临时装置是不是可以真正启发这座城市，使其避免曾经的错误规划，并重新修复它与周围环境的关联性呢？ ”

——Winy Maas, MVRDV创始合伙人

“ This project is a wonderful opportunity to give an impulse to a highly recognisable location in London. It’s a location full of contradictions, and our design highlights that. By adding this landscape element, we make a comment on the urban layout of the Marble Arch, and by looking to the site’s history, we make a comment on the area’s future. We enlarge the park and lift it at the corner. Marble Arch Hill strengthens the connection between Oxford Street and the park via the Marble Arch. Can this temporary addition help inspire the city to undo the mistakes of the 1960s, and repair that connection? ”

-- Winy Maas, Founding Partner of MVRDV

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大理石拱门山丘在其底部使用了脚手架结构，用以支撑上层草皮生长所需的胶合板和土壤层。脚手架结构也适用于大型植物。这一设计借鉴了MVRDV的两个过往项目：2016年在鹿特丹中央车站前广场搭建的临时阶梯，展示出临时脚手架结构在改造项目中的巨大潜力；而山丘的形态也呼应了2004年MVRDV为伦敦蛇形画廊设计的临时装置方案，随着大理石拱门山丘的方案落地，这个雄心勃勃的想法终于得以实现。

Marble Arch Hill uses a scaffold structure on its base, which will support the plywood and soil layers needed for the grass upper layer to grow. At strategic points, the structure is adapted to hold large planters that will be home to trees. The design draws from two separate lineages of MVRDV’s work: the office showed the transformative potential of temporary scaffold structures with its 2016 Stairs to Kriterion installation in Rotterdam; the mountain concept, meanwhile, recalls the 2004 proposal for the Serpentine Pavilion nearby in Hyde Park. This design remains the only iteration of the Serpentine Pavilion that the museum was unable to realise; with the Marble Arch Hill, this ambitious idea will finally come to life.

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鹿特丹中央火车站前广场临时巨型楼梯, 2016

The Stairs to Kriterion, 2016

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2004 年MVRDV为伦敦蛇形画廊设计的临时装置方案

MVRDV's proposal for Serpentine Pavilion in 2004

大理石拱门山丘的设计将可持续性纳为重要的考虑因素。作为一座临时装置，MVRDV非常关注如何确保在结构拆除时尽可能减少工程废料和垃圾。因此，我们在设计时充分考虑了建材的回收再利用。脚手架结构当然可以在拆卸后重复使用，而构成其顶层的材料，包括木材、土壤、草皮和植树，都可以重新安置在附近的花园和公共庭院中。

Sustainability is an important consideration in the design of Marble Arch Hill. As a temporary structure, it is critical to ensure that it produces as little waste as possible when it is removed. Therefore the design is created with the reuse of elements in mind. The scaffolding structure can of course be disassembled and reused, while the elements that make up its top layer – wood, soil, grass, and trees – will all find new uses in nearby gardens and parks.

大理石拱门山丘将于2021年7月开放，并于同年冬季关闭，具体关闭时间待定。

Marble Arch Hill will open in July 2021, with its closing date in the winter still to be determined.

来源：MVRDV