澳大利亚：Maitland河流枢纽公共建筑

FROM THREAT TO COMMUNITY ASSET: Reviving a country town’s heart and linking it to the river 

将洪水威胁变成小镇财富：活化小镇中心、与河流相连

Work has now completed on the Maitland Riverlink, a public project that will crystallise new value for the regional centre Maitland, both in terms of its identity and its assets. The project will support a revitalisation of the central business precinct, extending it beyond the main street to the river.

位于澳大利亚新南威尔士州的Maitland Riverlink公共项目已完工。该项目将在城市特征和资产方面，塑造Maitland核心区域新价值，同时有助于中央商务区的复兴，将其区域从主要道路延伸至河流区域。

The space acts as a kind of ‘public living room’ for the community, reactivating an unused part of town and drawing locals back to the river that is a fundamental part of Maitland’s heritage, whilst bringing tourists and visitors to the town. In recent years, rural Maitland’s town centre had turned its back on the river, disconnecting it from its main commercial and community activities. A series of devastating floods meant locals no longer see the river as an asset, but as a threat to the community. Working with McGregor+Coxall, CHROFI identified an opportunity to help reframe that dynamic, then worked closely with Maitland City Council to find buildings which could be purchased and redeveloped to act as pivot for the revitalisation of the centre of town.

该空间将成为社区“公共会客厅”，激活欠利用的区域，将市民重新吸引到城市重要遗产的河流地带，并吸引观光游客。近年来，市郊Maitland的镇中心发展同河流相疏离，商业和社区重要活动脱离了河流周围。此外，多次可怕洪灾让当地民众将河流视作对社区的威胁，而不是财富。CHROFI事务所同McGregor+Coxall事务所合作，发现了帮助恢复区域活力的机遇，与市议会紧密协同，寻找并购置到合适的建筑，将其改造成城中心复兴的枢纽。

The architecture is intended to act as a civic set piece in a street full of great buildings. It also registers as a landmark when viewed from the levee bank, from neighbouring Lorn and the Belmore Bridge. The design balances these architectural ambitions with consideration for the human scale. The precise angles of the walls, ceiling and floor, twist and distort the central space, to subtly slow movement through. The gateway frames a public space that invites occupation, a place to sit, shade in summer, a mobile library, access to high quality public amenities and a restaurant and can all be transformed into an outdoor cinema or theatre for the community.

该项目位于一条拥有众多优秀建筑的道路上，旨在成为精心设计、样式严谨的民用建筑，并从Levee河岸、Lorn桥和Belmore桥等多角度成为地标。设计方案考虑到人性化尺度，实现了建筑宏愿的平衡。项目营造了一个公共空间，涵盖消遣、小憩、夏日纳凉、移动图书馆、高档休闲设施和餐厅，也可被改造成户外影院和剧院。

Brick was chosen as the primary building finish to complement the existing materials and textures of the streetscape and Maitland in general. The warmth and texture of clay bricks works at the urban scale and at the interior human scale to provide an enduring finish. Hand-made specials help the monolithic brick walls bend at unlikely angles giving the material an unexpected and abstract quality. Where there is a requirement for light, transparency or operability, a complementary pattern of light-weight timber batten panels is used to provide these qualities while retaining the fine-scale expression of the brick patterning.

设计师选取砖块作为建筑主材饰面，与街道建筑材料和肌理、所在城市整体和谐统一。黏土砌块的温暖和质地赋予室外城市尺度、室内人性化尺度两者均具有持久耐用性。手工打造的构件让砖砌实墙呈现出不经意的角度，营造出别致抽象的特征。辅助使用了轻质木条板，满足了光线、透明感和可操作性的要求，同时保持了砖墙图形的美感。

业主：Maitland市议会

地点：澳大利亚新南威尔士州 Maitland

类型：公共广场、门户、咖啡厅、休闲设施

规模：439平方米

年代：2012-2018

建筑设计：CHROFI事务所

景观设计：McGregor Coxall

范围：方案，图纸，现场服务

摄影：Simon Wood, Edge Commercial Photography, Matt Abbott, Brett Boardman

本文经设计方CHROFI授权转载，原文：http://www.chrofi.com/project/maitland-riverlink