The WALDEN WOODS forest landscape

设计师：Sasaki

位置：美国

分类：

公共绿地

内容：实景照片

项目时间：2006年

图片：8张

这里就是亨利·大卫·梭罗写作《瓦尔登湖》的地方，也是弗里曼·布里斯特的故居。但是在20世纪90年代这里的环境遭到了严重的破坏。Sasaki对这片18.6英亩的林地进行了重新规划设计才使这里再次成为公众心目中的绿色静地。设计者再现了很多梭罗在《瓦尔登湖》中的景观元素，激起了游览者的探索的兴趣。

梭罗有一句名言“简化，再简化”。这也是这片区域规划和布局的理念。每一块石材，每一个青铜制品都是经过了深思熟虑才挑选出来的，经久耐用、独具特色而又美观漂亮。梭罗的很多思想和作品的精髓被分为五大部分被刻在了路边的石碑上：作为社会改革和评论家、作为教师和观察家、作为科学家、以及作为哲学家带给世人的影响。

设计者尽可能地在人为提供信息和保持自然环境的神秘感之间寻求一种平衡。项目中还有一处地方，在这里不同年龄的人们都可以与自然、与历史进行心灵的沟通。该项目也是跨学科设计的一个成功典范，是梭罗研究者和环境学家共同智慧的结晶，做到了自然

景观设计

和人文历史的结合。艺术家唐·亨利对保护瓦尔登湖的号召和“瓦尔登湖”文化的宣传也将在社会上引起强烈的反响，这都将促进这项非盈利计划的开展和实施。

译者： 柒柒

Walden Woods is where naturalist, abolitionist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau resided when he wrote the influential American classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods. The woods are also the once-home of Freeman Brister, a freed African-American slave. Although an important historical site, in the 1990s the area had been significantly altered by sand mining, invasive plants, and off-road vehicles—and was threatened with development. Sasaki provided planning services for the Walden Woods that addresses the physical misuses and shares the transcendental nature and significance of the site with the public. At Brister's Hill, an 18.6 acre parcel of land in the center of the woods, Sasaki provided graphic and landscape design services to create an interpretive trail. The location and condition of the site provided a unique opportunity to interpret Thoreau's observations and writings through a series of elements that quote Thoreau and encourage visitors to explore the environmental characteristics of the site.

"Simplify, simplify," is a famous quote from Thoreau, and in this spirit the interpretive trail is organized around a simple loop path with granite and bronze elements featuring other quotations. The careful selection of stone and bronze materials responded to the needs for durability, legibility, sustainability, and beauty. Landscape features illustrative of Thoreau's observations and writing are called out with markers while quotes are carved into stones set into the earth. The quotes are organized around five important contributions of Thoreau, each with a stopping point along the path. Entry Meadow references Thoreau as a conservationist, Brister's Orchard references Thoreau as a social reformer and commentator, Sand Plain references Thoreau as a teacher and observer, Forest Succession references Thoreau as a scientist, and Reflection Circle references Thoreau's philosophy, including its spiritual dimensions and his influence on others.

Sasaki's landscape design along with a program of landscape restoration and invasive plant removal restores and encourages the natural succession of existing plants ranging from lichens and mosses, to White Birch and Pitch Pine, to Oak and Hickory forest. Sasaki also provided planning services for the Walden Pond State Reservation and other interconnected lands at a former rock quarry.

Through an intense effort to achieve balance between providing information while maintaining a sense of discovery with non-intrusiveness into the natural setting, the project achieved a place where visitors of all ages can connect to history and nature. The project exemplifies a successful interdisciplinary effort—integrating graphic design and landscape design with historians, Thoreau scholars, and environmental specialists. Recording artist Don Henley was instrumental in the protection and enhancements to Walden Woods, acquiring the property on behalf of the nonprofit Walden Woods Project to protect this land and to continue to inspire the ethics of environmental stewardship and social responsibility.

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