本文研究内容源自笔者参与的李晓东工作室位于江苏扬州的“祼园”项目。祼园拟建为一处扬州的园林式“城市客厅”,故本文分别从“城市客厅”“园林”与“扬州”三个维度切入研究与设计。“城市客厅”这一概念虽近来频繁出现,但并非是一类新的空间类型,而是对某一类具有特定场所感的城市公共空间的比喻,故在学界暂无明确定义。可被称为“城市客厅”的公共空间以不同形式呈现,如古代西方的广场、浴场,以及晚近的商业综合体、美术馆、高线等,体现出城市生活中心的定义随时代所发生的变化。咖啡厅+书店的形式与各类网红建筑正化身新的“城市客厅”模型,却也在社交网络与流行文化的合围之下呈现出一种空间模式上的趋同,背后反映出人们生活模式与价值取向的单一。在此背景之下,一种新的“城市客厅”模式亟待提出,以丰富其空间内涵,将城市与生活从集体化中解放出来。城市性与地域性由此被提出,以作为摆脱集体化面貌的方法。结合扬州这一具体城市语境,“园林”被选择作为扬州“城市客厅”的空间原型。这一方面源自扬州优秀且独特的造园传统,使得园林足以作为展现扬州城市风貌的窗口,一方面也源自园林作为一种传统空间模式正日益僵化的现实背景——理论与实践的脱节,使得园林研究趋于考古,无法在当代得以流转。在此意义上,“城市客厅”与“园林”互为载体,共同介入祼园的设计。“城市客厅”的介入,给园林的当代性转译提供了依据,而园林的介入,则为“城市客厅”所需的场所感提供了具体的空间操作方法。综上,本文首先通过案例类比,尝试给出“城市客厅”所需具备的四重属性:复合的功能组织、丰富的空间层次、对于现实问题的思考与映射、对于城市文脉的回应与塑造,以此作为“城市客厅”设计的基点;在此基础上,对传统园林的功能、边界系统、空间形式等进行研究,同时予以扬州园林以特别关注,探讨在从“私园”转为“公园”时所需进行的转译,并寻找园林在空间营造的逻辑与方法层面介入当代城市公共空间设计的契机;最后将以扬州祼园的设计为例,作为对“城市客厅”属性与园林空间组织方法的回应。
This paper is based on the project “Guan Garden” by Li Xiaodong Atelier. The Guan Garden is intended to be a garden-style “public living room” in Yangzhou, this paper therefore focuses on the three aspects of “public living room” “garden” and “Yangzhou”.The concept of the “public living room” is not a new spatial typology, but a metaphor for a particular type of public space, with no clear definition in the academic field. Public spaces that can be called “public living room” take different forms, such as squares and Baths in ancient times, and commercial complexes and galleries in more recent times, reflecting the Zeitgeist of different times. The café + bookstore type and various Internet-influential architecture are emerging as the new popular model, but also present a convergence under the influence of celebrity culture, reflecting the homogeneity of lifestyle and value. In this context, a new model of “public living room” needs to be proposed in order to enrich its connotation and liberate the city from collectivisation.Regionalism is thus proposed as a way out of the collectivised landscape. In the specific context of Yangzhou, garden is chosen as the spatial prototype for Yangzhou's “public living room”. This is partly due to the city’s excellent and unique gardening tradition, which makes gardens an adequate showcase for Yangzhou's urban landscape, and partly due to the fact that gardens are becoming increasingly rigid as a traditional spatial model. The disconnect between theory and practice makes garden studies archaeological and unable to survive in contemporary times.To sum up, this paper firstly tries to give the four features required for a “public living room” through case analogy. On this basis, the functions, enclosure systems and spatial design of traditional gardens are studied, and special attention is given to Yangzhou gardens to explore the translation required when they are transformed from “private gardens” to “public gardens” and looking for opportunities for gardens to intervene in contemporary urban public space design at the logical and methodological levels of spatial creation. Finally, the design of Yangzhou Guan Garden will be used as an example to respond to the features of the “public living room” and the spatial organisation of gardens.