在上海，MINI品牌已经通过品牌旗下的MINI Living和URBAN MATTERS，将品牌涉猎扩大到城市发展之中。这一系列活动旨在为城市提供更高品质的生活空间。“Urban Bloom”是一个越过了设计意图和市政需要，以人类兴趣为主导的实验性项目。该场地原为停车场，作为与URBAN MATTERS的合作性项目，这座临时性花园的出现更新和促进了城市化进程。用人为的手段将这一区域转变成理想的城市绿洲，强调了人在城市中的重要性。

Car brand MINI has begun expanding into urban development with its MINI Living building in Shanghai, and URBAN MATTERS, a program that repurposes spaces in cities to offer a higher quality of life. Urban Bloom is an experiment in human interest taking precedent over a design intention or infrastructure’s needs. The garden pop-up, in collaboration with URBAN MATTERS, renews, and invigorates, urbanism – in fact, the original location was a parking lot. Transformed into an ideal urban oasis, and constructed entirely from artificial means, it is a project for a city that emphasizes people.

▼鸟瞰，aerial view

MINI 和母公司BMW董事会委员Peter Schwarzenbauer强调了MINI公司在智慧空间运用领域的持续关注，将这一智慧从“我们驾驶的汽车中带入到我们居住的空间里”。这座临时花园Urban Bloom的设计意图在于为生活带来欢乐，装有各色植物的泡泡悬浮在庭院中，如同树上的枝叶。它们充斥在这个有限的空间里，留下斑驳的倒影。各式各样的鲜花和植物也被摆放在花园里，当这些花朵逐次盛开，这座花园将变成开放怡人的城市休闲空间。

MINI and its parent company BMW board member Peter Schwarzenbauer remarked MINI has always been focused on intelligent use of space, and brings this ‘know-how from the vehicles we drive to the cities we live in.” Urban Bloom, a pop-up garden whose sole design intent is to bring joy, reflects Balloon-like shapes hold colorful foliage, and floated above the courtyard like the leaves of trees, flooding the space with shadows and shapes. Rich varieties of flowers and vegetation were placed among the modules, and as they blossomed, the platform was transformed into an open, welcoming garden.

▼装有各色植物的泡泡悬浮在庭院中，Balloon-like shapes hold colorful foliage and floated above the courtyard

Anfu Road附近的居住社区融合了办公区，餐饮和学校，是践行这一概念空间的最佳场所。三十块板材整齐摆放在三层高的住宅旁边。这种混合的空间尺度是上海独有的形态，而Anfu Road则证明了城市活动和城市繁荣并不需要对空间进行推倒重建来承载。Anfu Road是MINI实现URBAN MATTERS价值的最好试验地。这座花园邀请来访者来亲自探寻，用镜头捕捉最独特的瞬间。就如同城市街区随着人的流动而建立，花的绽放跟随着光的变化，每一位来访者的行为和每个环境的能量都将不可度量的影响着整个空间的形成和个性。

Anfu Road was a perfect street to introduce this concept, as it’s a popular street that mixes residential compound with offices, restaurants, shops, and schools. Thirty something slab towers sit neatly next to 3 story lane houses. This mix of scale is unique to Shanghai. Anfu Road is proof that you do not need to flatten the old city to create new life, or to generate prosperity to an ever evolving city, and was geographically a perfect reflection for the values of URBAN MATTERS by MINI. Visitors are encouraged to explore the space and interpret its purpose with their own lens. In the same way that certain city blocks flow with rivers of people, or flowers grow toward the light, the behavior pattern of each visitor, and the energy of the environment, will intangibly define the space and its character.

▼花园坐落在独特的上海社区之中，the unique neighborhood of Shanghai where the garden locates

这个影响力微小的空间，将最天然的元素用人为的方式表达出来。世界上大多数的城市化都是非可持续性的，该空间的打造证实了一点：我们可以从陈旧的空间里做出全新的事物。

The space was low-impact, and interacted with natural elements in an artificial way – in short, proving it is possible to make something new from nothing new at all. So much about urbanism is not sustainable – the pace of life, waste, cost.

▼手绘图，sketch

Project Name: Urban Bloom Location: Shanghai, China Size: 330 sqm Design Team: Wendy Saunders, Vincent de Graaf, Javier Paz Taibo, Shirley Woo and URBAN MATTERS by MINI Event Organizer: Design Shanghai, URBAN MATTERS by MINI Site provider: YL Entertainment & Sports, URBAN MATTERS by MINI Construction: Tan Wenyuan Photography：URBAN MATTERS by MINI, CreatAR Images