由专筑网Yumi，刘庆新编译 Bjarke Ingels公司开始推出对多伦多商业中心的主要住宅区的开发计划，使人联想起1960年由Moshe Safdie建造的实验住宅综合体。 Bjarke Ingels' firm has unveiled designs for a major residential development in downtown Toronto, reminiscent of the experimental housing complex built by Moshe Safdie in the 1960s . 
计划的基地在国王西街和惠灵顿街道之间，BIG设计的开发区包括500间公寓，类似像素化的体块，它们上升或者降落，创造了5个顶端。 正是这种模块化的结构设计，有着和Safdie's Habitat 67 类似的美学——1967年的Montreal世博会上354个层叠混凝土“箱”的三维景观。 Proposed for a site between King Street West and Wellington Street, theBIG-designed development includes 500 apartments contained within a pixelated-looking block that rises and falls to create five peaks. It is this modular arrangement that gives the design a similar aesthetic to Safdie's Habitat 67 – the three-dimensional landscape of 354 stacked concrete "boxes" built for the Montreal Expo of 1967. 
在他的Instagram网页上，丹麦建筑师甚至引用了这项尚未命名的项目为“居住2.0，50年后的Moshe Safdie，在多伦多国王街西”。 受到地产开发商 Westbank和Allied REIT的委托，该项目将达到约725000平方英尺，这相当于约67000平方米。 On his Instagram page, Danish architect Ingels even refers to the as-yet unnamed project as "Habitat 2.0, 50 years after Moshe Safdie, at King Street West, Toronto". Commissioned by property developers Westbank and Allied REIT, the project will encompass approximately 725,000 square feet – which equates to around 67,000 square metres. 
在计划方案中，这个综合体将是一个空心的长方形框架，作为居民的一个大型社区庭院。 但该建筑群将被分解成立方的模块，每一个扭曲45度，创造更多的机会让阳光照射进来。 In plan, the complex will be a hollow rectangle framing a large communal courtyard for residents. But the building mass will be broken up into cuboidal modules, each twisted by 45 degrees to create more opportunities to bring in daylight. 
这五个塔的元素每个都在15至17层高之间。也有在地面上的入口，让行人能够穿过庭院。 The five tower elements will each be between 15 and 17 storeys high. There will also be openings at ground level, allowing pedestrians to potentially walk through the courtyard. 
Ingels告诉加拿大的报社Globe和Mail，其效果将类似于“地中海山区小镇”。 他说：“这个项目的规模是如此之大，以至于它几乎看起来像是一捆房子，而不是一座新的大房子。 Ingels told Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail that the effect will be akin to "a Mediterranean mountain town". "The scale of the project is so broken down that it almost looks like a bundle of homes rather than a big new building," he said. 
不寻常的布局将为居民创造许多不同的配置，公寓有各种大小尺寸。但大多数单元都有私人露台，其中许多在城市屋顶上提供了令人印象深刻的风景。 材料的选择尚未最终敲定，但目前的计划是用某种光石覆盖建筑，与生混凝土建筑Habitat 67形成细微的对比。 The unusual layout will create numerous different configurations for residents, and apartments will come in a variety of sizes. But most units will have private terraces, many of which will offer impressive views over the city rooftops. Material choices have not been finalised, but the current plan is to clad the building in some kind of light stone – offering a slight contrast to the raw concrete of Habitat 67. 
BIG作为住宅设计的前辈，用8 House的设计巩固了它的名誉，8 House是在哥本哈根开发区的一个8字形计划，还有它之前 Mountain Dwellings的设计。 国王西街项目是BIG事务所在加拿大进行的几个项目之一，同时还有扭曲的Vancouver House 摩天楼和在卡尔加里的Telus Sky塔。 BIG's cemented its reputation as a housing design pioneer with 8 House, a Copenhagen development featuring a figure-of-eight plan, but also with its earlier Mountain Dwellings. The King Street West project is one of several projects BIG has underway in Canada, alongside the twisted Vancouver House skyscraper and the curvaceous Telus Sky Tower in Calgary. |
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