斯坎德培广场

Skanderbeg Square

斯坎德培广场的更新项目是比利时51N4E工作室在2008年国际建筑竞赛中的获奖方案。竞赛的提案由组委会与阿尔巴尼亚艺术家安里·萨拉共同提出,期望通过以一种简单而彻底的方式重新建设地拉那州的中央广场-一个开阔的前共产主义空间。在复杂而密集的城市基底中,该广场既是阿尔巴尼亚首都的核心区域,也是整个国家的象征,因此,方案设计了宽敞的步行区域。这个广场在喧嚣热闹的城市中显得有些空旷,外围一系列新建的及原有的公共空间和花园,形成了密集的种植带,环绕着中央平坦的金字塔状的空间。绿化带如同建筑的前厅,实现了拥挤的城市区域与广场之间的协调的衔接与过渡。广场中宽阔而低矮的金字塔状空间中和了共产主义纪念碑那沉重的空间感受:当站在金字塔的顶端时,人们发现自己可以与过去的权威建筑比肩。一种全新的审视视角突然得以开辟,使人们能够对这些定义了阿尔巴尼亚的过去的建筑群有所思考,并将其看作一段可以继续发展的历史。

This project for the restructuring of Skanderbeg Square is the result of an international architecture competition won by 51N4E in 2008.The competition’s proposal,conceived in collaboration with Albanian artist Anri Sala,reorganizes Tirana’s central square,a vast excommunist space,in a simple yet radical way.In a complex and dense urban context,on this site that is both the core of the Albanian capital city and a symbol for the whole country,the project installs a generous pedestrian area.The square presents itself as a void in the chaos of the city,a flat pyramid lined by a densely planted periphery,formed by a collection of old and new public spaces and gardens.The resulting green belt acts as an antechamber negotiating the transition between the congested city and the square.The oppressive monumentality of Communist architecture is counteracted by the ample and low pyramid making up the square:when standing at its tip,the citizens find themselves at par with the authoritarian architecture of the past.