明尼阿波利斯市联邦法院大楼前广场

明尼阿波利斯市联邦法院大楼前广场

Minneapolis Courthouse Plaza

Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA

Client: U.S. General Services Administration

Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Size: 50,000 square feet

Status: Completed 1996

Awards: GSA Design Award National Design Citation 1996, ASLA Merit Award 1999, NEA Federal Design Achievement Award 2000

    This 50,000 square foot plaza is located in Minneapolis’s civic center, facing City Hall and in front of a new federal courthouse designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. The program required a plaza designed for both civic and individual activities, with its own imagery and sense of place.

The design developed for this plaza, entirely built on a garage roof, refers to Minnesota’s cultural and natural history. Earth mounds and logs, elements of that history, are the plaza’s symbolic and sculptural elements. Within the plaza, these components symbolize both the natural landscape and man’s manipulation of the landscape for his own purposes.

    The mounds are intended to evoke a memory of geological and cultural forms. They suggest a Minnesotan field of glacial drumlins, a stylized hill region, or, like a Japanese garden, a landscape that allows a dual reading of scale – a range of mountains or a low field of mounds. Ranging in height from three to nine feet, the tear-shaped mounds are planted with jack pine, a small, stunted, pioneer species common in Minnesota’s boreal forest.

The log benches, evocative of the great timber forests that attracted immigrants and provided the basis for the local economy, tell a similar story. The association of timber with Minnesota speaks to the heart of Minnesotans’ collective memory, and the plaza leaves a strong emotional imprint on the people who visit it. Strong signals in the design help pedestrians move through the plaza to the courthouse building. The linearity of the striped paving pattern guides the pedestrian into the lobby. The drumlins themselves also provide a directionality to the front door.

    Minnesota’s strong change of seasons is reflected in the plaza. Each spring and summer, the mounds come alive with perennials. Some mounds are blanketed with white narcissus while others reinforce the paving with stripes of blue scillas. In winter, Minnesota’s heavy snows heighten the sculptural effect of the drumlins.

位置：美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市

客户：美国总务管理局

建筑商：福克斯联合公司

规模：50,000 平方尺

状态：1996年竣工

奖项：1996年美国总务管理局设计奖

          1999年美国景观设计师协会优异奖

          2000年NEA联邦设计成就奖

这个5万平方尺的广场位于明尼阿波利斯市中心，它位于由科恩·佩德森·福克斯联合公司设计的联邦法院大楼前，面向市政府。这个项目需要一个可以为市民提供活动的广场，它需要有自己的形象和地方感。

这个广场建立在地下车库的上面，暗指明尼苏达州的文化和自然历史。土丘和原木是广场的象征和雕塑元素，也是这个历史的元素。在广场内，这些元素象征着自然景观和人类对景观的操纵。

这些土丘旨在唤起人们对地质和文化形态的记忆。这些土丘高度约3到9英尺，泪水状的土丘与斑克松（明尼苏达州的北方森林里一种小型的、发育迟缓的先锋物种）一起种植在这里。

这些原木长椅，代表着一个吸引了大量移民、为当地经济提供了基础的大型森林。明尼苏达州的木材与明尼苏达人的集体记忆有关，而广场则给访客留下深刻的情感印记。设计中的路标可以帮助行人穿过广场到达法院大楼。条纹铺设模式的线性化可以引导行人进入大厅。而这些土丘也暗示着前门的方向。

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