The Corpus Chirist north bay park

位置：美国

分类：公园

内容：实景照片

景观设计

：Gignac设计联盟

图片来源：Eddie Seal

图片：8张

2004年Gignac设计联盟和Sasaki联手制定了Corpus Chirist北部海湾的整体发展规划，涵盖了南部McGee沙滩和北部运输船航道的整个区域。规划重新修正了Boulevard的海岸线以腾出空间建设岸边绿化带，这也成为公园的一景。北部海湾公园的建设只是规划中众多公园建设之一。海岸线的修正减少了两个车船通道，为公园的建设开辟了80英尺的海岸空间，扩大了公共活动区域的面积。公园将用以一些盛大的节日和活动的举办。便利的交通条件也为演出者、观众和商贩们提供了方便。

公园的喷泉很引人注意，吸引了很多有孩子的家庭。家长们可以坐在公园的咖啡厅内，透过挡风玻璃看着孩子们在喷泉旁嬉戏打闹。咖啡厅设在布质的棚子之下、树丛之间的荫庇区域。 咖啡厅外是一条小路直通喷泉，路中还有一个凉亭。未来这里还将增加餐馆等活动点增加公园的人流和气氛。

海湾沿岸还设有35英尺高的风动涡轮来提供能源。涡轮形状不同、颜色各异，以动态的艺术呈现了这座城市的特点。它们不仅为园区提供了美丽的图案，提供了可再生的能源也展现了风能利用的文化和历史。公园设在飓风和海水冲击形成的小山丘上。雨水直接导入到公园内海滨

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区，然后经过滤流入地下。草地的科学利用向游客展示着海湾生态环境的开发和保护。

译者： 柒柒

In 2004, Gignac Associates and Sasaki prepared the overall master plan for the Corpus Christi bayfront—spanning from McGee Beach in the south to the ship channel in the north. The approved master plan called for the relocation of Shoreline Boulevard in order to accommodate green spaces along the water's edge, thus creating the vision for the North Bayfront Park. Situated next to the American Bank Center Arena, North Bayfront Park is the first of a series of parks to be constructed from the master plan.

The relocation, reduction of two travel lanes, and removal of the 80-foot-wide median of Shoreline Boulevard recaptured the bayfront land and allowed for the creation of North Bayfront Park. Traffic trables, intersection neckdowns, and reduced lanes curtail traffic and improve the public realm for pedestrians. North Bayfront Park is designed to accommodate festivals and events such as Buccaneer Days. Shoreline Boulevard is closed to traffic for these events to make space for performances, vendors, and pedestrians.

A key feature of the park includes an interactive fountain to attract children and families. Parents can sit at the adjacent café in the park, protected from the wind with glass windscreens, while watching their children play in the fountain. The café is shaded by fabric stretched between posts while groves of palms and mesquite trees will grow over time to provide shady spots in the park. An arbor is designed to support colorful Bougainvillea planting that shade a walkway leading to the fountain. The arbor fronts a parcel identified for a future restaurant included in the design to activate and program the park.

The park includes 35-foot-tall wind turbines along the waterfront that are designed to produce energy that goes back into the grid. The wind turbines are also a form of kinetic art, with sculptural qualities derived from the shape and colors of conch shells that expresses the city's distinctive setting on the bay. The turbines will serve as iconic landmarks on the waterfront as well as providing renewable energy to the park. The introduction of wind power production also makes a cultural and historical connection by harnessing potentially harmful winds.

The park is sited atop the fill material behind the seawall constructed after the hurricane. Rainwater from the site is directed to a linear rain garden planted with native coastal meadow plants that filter stormwater contaminants and allows water to infiltrate into the ground. The coastal meadow serves as a reminder to visitors of the coastal landscape prior to the sea wall construction and offers environmental education of the native landscape ecology of the bay.

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