Calvert: A City in a Garden

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 5th Studio - Holbrook's architectural practice - developed Calvert for the Wolfson Economics Prize 2014, responding to the call to deliver a visionary, economically viable, and popular Garden City. The propositional project offers a series of civic environments that fuel debate regarding the value of spatial planning and use of public land. Calvert was exhibited at Occupied, Design Hub, 2016. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Calvert offers alternatives to market driven, contemporary development that often lacks engagement with the risk and spatial complexities that make good cities. In response to the 'garden city' concept, the imagined 'city in a garden' creates conditions for mediation between individual citizens and the collective. Calvert proposes that huge investments of money, land and political energy might be used in multiple ways to create delight. This project draws on Holbrook's ongoing design research in developing strategic thinking that explores dynamics between architecture and the scale of infrastructure and landscape, particularly within conservation, environmental sustainability and regeneration projects. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The Calvert project featured in Architects' Journal (June 2014), in Bauwelt magazine (cover, September 2016) and at Occupied, a significant showcase of critical urban design. The exhibition - curated by Grace Mortlock, David Neustein and Fleur Watson - was critically reviewed (SMH - August 2016, Architecture Australia - January 2017) and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Design Award (2016). Proving influential in political and planning circles, Calvert was instrumental in 5th Studio winning a project to advise the UK National Infrastructure Commission on growth along the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge corridor.研究背景：第五工作室（5th Studio）作为霍尔布鲁克建筑事务所（Holbrook's architectural practice），为2014年沃尔夫森经济学奖（Wolfson Economics Prize）研发了卡尔弗特（Calvert）方案，响应了“打造兼具前瞻性、经济可行性与大众认可度的花园城市（Garden City）”的征集号召。该提案项目打造了一系列公共环境场景，引发了关于空间规划价值与公共土地利用方式的讨论。卡尔弗特方案曾于2016年在《入驻》（Occupied）设计中心展出。 研究贡献：卡尔弗特方案为当前以市场为导向的当代开发模式提供了替代路径——此类开发往往忽视塑造优质城市所需考量的风险与空间复杂性。针对“花园城市”理念，该方案构想的“园中之城”为个体公民与集体之间搭建了沟通协调的场景。卡尔弗特提出，可通过多元方式投入巨额资金、土地与政治资源，以创造令人愉悦的空间环境。本项目依托霍尔布鲁克持续开展的设计研究，其战略思维探索了建筑与基础设施、景观尺度之间的动态关系，尤其聚焦于保护、环境可持续性与更新改造类项目。 研究意义：卡尔弗特方案曾登上《建筑师杂志》（Architects' Journal）2014年6月刊、《建筑世界》（Bauwelt）杂志2016年9月刊封面，并在批判性城市设计重要展陈“《入驻》（Occupied）”中展出。该展览由格蕾丝·莫特洛克（Grace Mortlock）、大卫·纽斯坦因（David Neustein）与弗勒·沃森（Fleur Watson）策展，获得了专业媒体的评论报道（《悉尼先驱晨报》（SMH）2016年8月刊、《澳大利亚建筑》（Architecture Australia）2017年1月刊），并入围2016年维多利亚州州长设计奖（Victorian Premier's Design Award）。卡尔弗特方案在政治与规划领域颇具影响力，助力第五工作室成功中标英国国家基础设施委员会（UK National Infrastructure Commission）委托的项目，为牛津-米尔顿凯恩斯-剑桥走廊的区域增长提供咨询服务。