毕业论文外文翻译-伦敦2012奥林匹公园滨水景观设计与营造.doc

Riverfront Landscape Design for London 2012 Olympic Park Client: Olympic Delivery Authority Location: London, UK Project Credit: Atkins Text: Mike McNicholas, Project Director, Atkins How do you plant along a rivers edge, knowing that millions of people could be passing through thesite in the near future? How do you design, create and maintain the surrounding wetlands, knowing that man-made wet woodland is very rare and transitionalby nature? How do you ensurethat the habitat being created remains viable and sustainable in the long-term? Atkins抏ngineers of the wetlands and river edges on the London 2012 Olympic Park were tasked with fi nding answers to all of these questions. Covering more than 246 hectares of formerly derelict industrial land, London抯 new Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is one of Europe抯 biggest-ever urban greening projects. Rivers and wetlands are at the heart of the vision for the new park, which lies in east London抯 Lower Lee Valley. Th e landscape that抯 now emerging will provide a backdrop for the main action of theLondon 2012 Games. As river edge and wetland engineers for the project, Atkins has played a critical role in turning the vision into reality. Atkins?remit includes design of the soft river edges and wetlands, including riverbank restoration and bioengineering. The transformation is unprecedented. More than 8km of riverbanks have been restored as part of the project; in tandem with this, 2 hectares of reed beds and ponds have been created, along with 9,000 square meters of rare wet woodland(Fig.01). The challenge was about getting people both visual and physical access down to the river-to actually make the rivers more accessible and more open, and therefore the centerpiece of the Park. Mike Vaughan heads up Atkins multidisciplinary design team, which includes river engineers, geomorphologists and ecologists. 揟he idea was to open up the river corridor by making the stee