英国伦敦 - NEO Bankside / Gillespies
英国伦敦 - NEO Bankside / Gillespies
这个位于伦敦豪华公寓的园林景观设计屡获殊荣。其创作的灵感来自于大自然，内部
丰富有趣的景观与公寓交相辉映，达到柔美自然同精美建筑及现代设计的完美平衡。
这座优雅宁静的花园毗邻泰特美术馆，白天向公众开放，为大家提供一个安全私密的
宁静场所。设计师Stephen Richards充分认识到外部空间对改善城市生活质量的作
用，在城市中心创作出了一片全新的绿色空间。这里有自然的林地---桦木林和桤木
林。林地里种植着各种各样的原生植物，还额外的提供了蜂箱和鸟笼，鼓励物种多样
性，让蜜蜂帮忙授粉，保障植物物种繁衍。此外果树园和药草园让居民参与管理花
园，并享受药草的芬芳。树林提供阴影，成为屏障。内部多样化的空间和种植为居民
带来闹中取静的安然生活。
景观设计师研究建筑形成的阴影，还有风向，巧妙的配置植物，让花园形成四季皆可
观的美丽场所。这个公共的宁静居民花园在公共与私人的界限之间立足于一个完美的
点。景观设计一开始就介入其中，成为不可缺少的融合剂。
花园中共有四栋年代和风格迥异的建筑，其中包括城市救济院。所有的停车空间都被
安排在地下，因此这个花园是一个屋顶花园。设计的挑战之一就是土壤深度，种植面
积，树木配置还有灌溉系统等等软质景观综合问题。庭院内的原生植物将成为植物银
行，他们的种子将繁衍出更多的原生植物，这里充分鼓励多样性和野生动物生活空
间，采用雨水收集和灌溉。美丽的植物景观提供了舒适的微气候还有温馨的空间。这
个景观具有基于本地化，针对气候进行生物多样化的理念。
Gillespies creates award-winning landscape inspired by nature
at London’s NEO Bankside
Paralleling the opening of London’s luxury NEO Bankside development next to the Tate
Modern is the unveiling of a new city-centre green landscape.
At NEO Bankside, Gillespies has created a series of richly-detailed garden spaces
around the footprint of the apartment pavilions, designed by architects RSHP. The final
landscape features soft planting inspired by native woodlands, balancing beautifully
with the contemporary lines of the buildings. Unusually in the heart of a city, the outdoor
spaces offer NEO Bankside’s residents opportunities to engage with nature, and
create a new micro-ecological environment in this established urban setting.
The elegant and peaceful landscaped gardens integrate NEO Bankside with the
neighbouring Tate Modern and its surroundings, and provide public access during the
day as well as a secure, private environment for residents to enjoy.
Stephen Richards, Partner at Gillespies who led the landscape design comments:
“Greater awareness of the value of nature in cities, and the benefits it brings to our
quality of life has led to a new approach to exterior space design for city-centre
residential schemes.
At NEO Bankside, Gillespies has designed a series of innovative green spaces that
spearhead this movement. The completed designs take cues from natural woodlands
and glades, and transpose them to the city. The layout contains large tracts of native
plants set within groves of alder and birch trees, providing a ‘bank’ of flowers, seeds
and nesting material that will encourage a range of wildlife to the space. Beehives
have also been installed, enabling pollination of the plants and helping to safeguard this
threatened species.
An orchard of fruiting trees and a herb garden give residents access to produce,
encouraging active participation in the management of the gardens. The colour and
fragrance of the herb garden adds to sensory delight of the garden areas.
Large forest trees shading cool lawns give residents peaceful spaces in which to
withdraw from the world outside. With its diverse and rich range of planting, NEO
Bankside’s outdoor spaces uplift the senses, and give residents an opportunity to rest,
recreate and retreat from city life.”
Designing the outdoor spaces to full potential
As with any development in the heart of a city, outdoor space was restricted, but the
Gillespies team sought to ensure that NEO Bankside’s exterior spaces reached their
full potential. Stephen Richards comments:
“Working within the plan for NEO Bankside developed by architects RSHP, we were
able to create visually stimulating spaces between and beneath the buildings as well
creating an overall sense that NEO Bankside is floating on a cloud of trees.
We studied the mix and composition of each space carefully. We responded to the
challenges created by the particular arrangement of the tall buildings in terms of wind,
light and shade in order to ensure that the outdoor spaces have visual-interest
throughout the year.
We are delighted that the completed design ensures NEO Bankside’s residents will
enjoy quiet seclusion in their own private gardens, while members of the public passing
through can also enjoy the wider landscape.”
Landscape design was integral from the start
From the outset of the project, NEO Bankside’s developers and design team sought to
place the apartment pavilions within a richly landscaped environment, blending private
garden spaces with tree-lined linear groves which form the boundary to a new public
realm. The designers from Gillespies were brought on board from the early stage,
enabling the best possible final outcome.
Distinctive setting and unique planning considerations
NEO Bankside’s four spectacular apartment pavilions are nestled between
neighbouring buildings of various ages and styles, including characterful listed Victorian
almshouses. This setting meant Gillespies had to design within unique planning
considerations. For example, limitations had to be placed on the size of oak trees
along the edge of NEO Bankside interfacing with the Victorian Alms Houses in order to
filter views. The whole landscape sits on top of a basement car park, and one of the
challenges for the Gillespies team was how to allow for sufficient soil for trees and
planted areas. A solution was achieved by the design of a folded structural slab that
supports the entire landscape above, as well as specialist irrigation systems for the
plants.
Sustainability and environmental considerations
Gillespies’ designers placed great importance on selecting the most appropriate
materials for NEO Bankside’s landscapes in respect to the environment, place-making
and long-term performance. Gillespies specified all elements as suitable for the
context, to limit impact on the environment, and where relevant, to be robust and
tolerant enough for the stresses of a public environment over a long period of time.
Working with planting specialists Growth Industry, Gillespies included large tracts of
native plants into the design, set within groves of trees to provide a ‘bank’ of flowers,
seeds and nesting material to encourage biodiversity and a range of wildlife to the
space.
Rainwater harvesting for irrigation
Working with Hoare Lea engineers, the scheme evolved to ensure capacity for
rainwater harvesting was a central tenet of the basement design and construction.
Water retention boards (reservoirs) were laid over the structural slab - this technology
provides a reserve of water to maintain soil saturation and consequently limits the
amount of irrigation water required. This reserve of water supplements the planting
irrigation system, and limits the demands on mains water use.
Planting and biodiversity
The planting concepts and final details are central to the overall landscape design for
NEO Bankside. The planting softens the built environment, humanises the space and
mitigates the local microclimate to create comfortable, welcoming spaces. It also
provides a seasonal sense of time and place to enrich urban life. Most of the plants
used at NEO Bankside are native in origin and are carefully suited to the microclimate
of the site. BREEAM guidelines and biodiversity were a major driver for the selection of
appropriate plant species.
A unique division between public and private space
A significant offer from this project to the wider community is the public permeability
through the centre of NEO Bankside. This creates a generous permeable public realm,
with landscaped groves defining two clear public routes through the site which extend
the existing landscape from the riverside gardens outside Tate Modern through to
Southwark Street.
Gillespies’ landscape design was developed to provide optimum private residents’
gardens, while separating them distinctly from the public routes. An innovative
landscape strategy was introduced from the outset to define the threshold between
private and publically-accessible spaces.
This definition has been achieved through the use of richly-planted berms, pebble-lined
moats, stone-lined cuttings and narrow walkways that combine to create a strong sense
of identity for the site. The long planted berms are a recurring signature that channel
North/ South movement and act as a threshold between private and public space,
dissected by a network of residents’ pathways. The berms also complement Tate
Modern’s landscape, binding this site into its wider context.
Here’s some more information from the Gillespies:
About Gillespies
www.gillespies.co.uk
Gillespies is a leading firm of landscape architects, masterplanners, urban designers
and landscape planners, with a reputation for applying creative design that enhances
the built environment. Gillespies’ implemented projects include designs for residential
and commercial developments, parks, leisure, educational and healthcare
developments, major infrastructure, and high-profile public realm and urban design
schemes, in the UK and throughout the world.
About NEO Bankside
This world-class development, in an unrivalled location beside Tate Modern on the
South Bank of the Thames, offers 217 stunning luxury apartments and penthouses in
four striking glass pavilions rising into the skyline, with views towards St Paul’s
Cathedral and the River Thames. NEO Bankside is a joint venture developed by Native
Land and Grosvenor.
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