在上海，MINI品牌已經通過品牌旗下的MINI Living和URBAN MATTERS，將品牌涉獵擴大到城市發展之中。這一系列活動旨在為城市提供更高品質的生活空間。“Urban Bloom”是一個越過了設計意圖和市政需要，以人類興趣為主導的實驗性項目。該場地原為停車場，作為與URBAN MATTERS的合作性項目，這座臨時性花園的出現更新和促進了城市化進程。用人為的手段將這一區域轉變成理想的城市綠洲，強調了人在城市中的重要性。
Car brand MINI has begun expanding into urban development with its MINI Living building in Shanghai, and URBAN MATTERS, a program that repurposes spaces in cities to offer a higher quality of life. Urban Bloom is an experiment in human interest taking precedent over a design intention or infrastructure’s needs. The garden pop-up, in collaboration with URBAN MATTERS, renews, and invigorates, urbanism – in fact, the original location was a parking lot. Transformed into an ideal urban oasis, and constructed entirely from artificial means, it is a project for a city that emphasizes people.
▼鳥瞰，aerial view
MINI 和母公司BMW董事會委員Peter Schwarzenbauer強調了MINI公司在智慧空間運用領域的持續關注，將這一智慧從“我們駕駛的汽車中帶入到我們居住的空間裡”。這座臨時花園Urban Bloom的設計意圖在於為生活帶來歡樂，裝有各色植物的泡泡懸浮在庭院中，如同樹上的枝葉。它們充斥在這個有限的空間裡，留下斑駁的倒影。各式各樣的鮮花和植物也被擺放在花園裡，當這些花朵逐次盛開，這座花園將變成開放怡人的城市休閒空間。
MINI and its parent company BMW board member Peter Schwarzenbauer remarked MINI has always been focused on intelligent use of space, and brings this ‘know-how from the vehicles we drive to the cities we live in.” Urban Bloom, a pop-up garden whose sole design intent is to bring joy, reflects Balloon-like shapes hold colorful foliage, and floated above the courtyard like the leaves of trees, flooding the space with shadows and shapes. Rich varieties of flowers and vegetation were placed among the modules, and as they blossomed, the platform was transformed into an open, welcoming garden.
▼裝有各色植物的泡泡懸浮在庭院中，Balloon-like shapes hold colorful foliage and floated above the courtyard
Anfu Road附近的居住社區融合了辦公區，餐飲和學校，是踐行這一概念空間的最佳場所。三十塊板材整齊擺放在三層高的住宅旁邊。這種混合的空間尺度是上海獨有的形態，而Anfu Road則證明了城市活動和城市繁榮並不需要對空間進行推倒重建來承載。Anfu Road是MINI實現URBAN MATTERS價值的最好試驗地。這座花園邀請來訪者來親自探尋，用鏡頭捕捉最獨特的瞬間。就如同城市街區隨著人的流動而建立，花的綻放跟隨著光的變化，每一位來訪者的行為和每個環境的能量都將不可度量的影響著整個空間的形成和個性。
Anfu Road was a perfect street to introduce this concept, as it’s a popular street that mixes residential compound with offices, restaurants, shops, and schools. Thirty something slab towers sit neatly next to 3 story lane houses. This mix of scale is unique to Shanghai. Anfu Road is proof that you do not need to flatten the old city to create new life, or to generate prosperity to an ever evolving city, and was geographically a perfect reflection for the values of URBAN MATTERS by MINI. Visitors are encouraged to explore the space and interpret its purpose with their own lens. In the same way that certain city blocks flow with rivers of people, or flowers grow toward the light, the behavior pattern of each visitor, and the energy of the environment, will intangibly define the space and its character.
▼花園坐落在獨特的上海社區之中，the unique neighborhood of Shanghai where the garden locates
這個影響力微小的空間，將最天然的元素用人為的方式表達出來。世界上大多數的城市化都是非可持續性的，該空間的打造證實了一點：我們可以從陳舊的空間裡做出全新的事物。
The space was low-impact, and interacted with natural elements in an artificial way – in short, proving it is possible to make something new from nothing new at all. So much about urbanism is not sustainable – the pace of life, waste, cost.
▼手繪圖，sketch
Project Name: Urban Bloom
Location: Shanghai, China
Size: 330 sqm
Design Team: Wendy Saunders, Vincent de Graaf, Javier Paz Taibo, Shirley Woo and URBAN MATTERS by MINI
Event Organizer: Design Shanghai, URBAN MATTERS by MINI
Site provider: YL Entertainment & Sports, URBAN MATTERS by MINI
Construction: Tan Wenyuan
Photography：URBAN MATTERS by MINI, CreatAR Images
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