Denny's上空的花园

公司：	SAW	Type：	景观
Area：	美国	Label：	屋顶花园 \| 庭院花园

Spiegel Aihara Workshop（SAW）工作室为位于加利福尼亚州硅谷中心Sunnyvale的一座新的包含75个单元的混合多户住宅开发项目提供景观设计。梯田造型的花园将开发项目连接在一起，将公共街景与私人内部庭院连接起来，一直延伸至屋顶平台，人们可在此远眺国王山和远处山麓的景色。

Spiegel Aihara Workshop (SAW) has designed the landscape for a new 75-unit, mixed-income multifamily housing development in Sunnyvale, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Terraced gardens tie the development together, connecting the public streetscape to the private interior courtyards, all the way to the roof deck with views to Kings Mountain and the foothills beyond.

▽远眺国王山和远处山麓的景色

项目在各个层面都创建了强大的社区空间，雨水处理种植池无缝集成到层叠的花园设计中。项目被戏称为“Denny's上空的花园”——Denny's指的是颇受顾客喜爱的一家怀旧氛围的美国连锁餐厅，餐厅长期以来一直位于场地中，并深受当地社区认可，因此成为该开发项目的主要租户。

Robust community spaces are created at all levels, with stormwater treatment planters seamlessly integrated into the cascading design. The project is playfully referred to as “Gardens Over Denny’s”, in reference to the beloved Denny’s restaurant (an American chain diner that evokes a certain nostalgia) that had long existed on the site, and through community endorsement, returned to become the development’s anchor tenant.

▽设计构思

设计层次与视角的多样性是SAW的景观设计方案的显著特征。团队在庭院层创建了篝火聚会区、烧烤区和餐桌，精心设计的金属边缘描绘了裙楼庭院中不同土壤深度的种植池，允许不同高度和密度的植物共存——这对为不同的团体聚会和周边其他单元的提供隐私至关重要。具有交错的垂直支撑的阴影结构也带来了丰富的层次和视觉效果，就如同绘画一般，人们可以观察到前景，中景和背景中多样的、多方向元素的丰富构图，甚至包含穿行其间的路人。

Layered, multivalent views characterize SAW’s approach to the landscape. At the Courtyard level, which includes firepit lounges and a community grill and dining table, carefully detailed metal edges delineate alternating bands of varying soil depths on the podium courtyard, which allow for both intensive and extensive plantings of varying heights and textures - critical for providing privacy for different group gatherings and for the individual units along the perimeter. Shade structures with staggered vertical supports also contribute to the layered visual effect, not unlike a painting, in which one might observe a rich composition of disparate, multi-directional elements in the foreground, middle ground, and background - including moving passers-by.

▽篝火聚会区

▽不同土壤深度的种植池

在街道层，设计涵盖了各种景观类型，将新开发的项目融入既有的城市结构。团队在南玛蒂尔达大道（South Mathilda Avenue）沿线的场地东侧设有一座狭长的雨水种植园，并配有本土植物和优雅的座位墙，为等待公共交通的居民提供了座椅，而在建筑物的北边，树蕨生长在混合遮荫植物中，以屏蔽公寓大堂和办公室与市中心纷扰的交通。

At the street level, the design includes a variety of landscape types to stitch the new development into its urban fabric. On the eastern side of the property along South Mathilda Avenue, a long stormwater planter with mixed native plantings and a gracious seat wall provides seating for residents awaiting public transportation, while on the northern edge of the building, tree ferns rise above mixed shade plantings to screen the apartment lobby and offices from the downtown traffic.

建筑东北角，一个带有雕塑长凳，装饰性铺路和棕榈树的广场将酒店与商业市中心走廊连接起来。在西部边缘，一座5层高的建筑被缩小为2层的联排别墅，鲜嫩的草地、五颜六色的灌木和矮草莓树组成了入户景观，欢迎着邻近的居民。5层的屋顶平台提供了一个阳光明媚的休息区域，可以欣赏到国王山及更远的景色，交汇的树木轮廓线模糊了界限，连绵的树冠将住宅环境融合在一起。

At this northeast corner, a plaza with sculptural benches, decorative paving and palm trees connects the property to a commercial downtown corridor. On the western edge, the 5-story building scales down to 2-story townhouses with playful layerings of grasses, colorful shrubs and dwarf strawberry trees with its red, exfoliating bark providing a welcoming threshold to meet the adjacent residential neighborhood. At the 5 th floor, a roof deck provides a sunny retreat with views to Kings Mountain and beyond, where tree lines blur together across boundaries, blending property lines through a continuous canopy.

从住宅区通往庭院层的大楼梯两侧是宽阔的花园露台，与优雅的拱形紫荆花树交错，柔化了雨水基础设施的交界，这些设施将会处理从多个建筑物屋顶和庭院路面流出的雨水。SAW合伙人Megumi Aihara解释说：“这个开发项目位于硅谷的中心地带，位于一个从前默默无闻的低矮社区，毗邻广阔的商业地段。我们试图利用景观在社区内部和社区之间建立联系，让每个街景都以不同的方式延伸到社区。即使是私人高架庭院花园，仍然能够通过一连串的树木与街道相连，使新居民与既有住宅融为一体。我们认为这样的景观有助于赋予住宅开发项目新的身份。”

The large stairway leading up to the courtyard level from the residential zone is flanked by wide garden terraces staggered with gracefully arching redbud trees, softening the confluence of stormwater infrastructure necessary to treat the water flowing from the multiple building roofs and courtyard pavements.. SAW partner Megumi Aihara explains, “This development is in the heart of Silicon Valley, in what was a formerly sleepy, low neighborhood, adjacent to vast commercial lots. We were trying to use the landscape to create connections within and between communities, with each streetscape reaching out to the neighborhood in a different way. Even the elevated courtyard garden, a private space, remains connected to the street level through a cascade of trees that engages new residents with the existing homes. We felt this landscape helped give the development an identity.”