Mines and Quarries: Leaving the Cut Faces

A park transformed from a quarry. The massive rock face is fully preserved, revealing vertical cuts from mining, drill hole marks, and stepped working platforms. The rock's stratification and colors are fully visible. The depression at the bottom has accumulated water, forming a deep pool, whose color is a rich blue-green due to minerals. New interventions are extremely restrained: a slender weathering steel boardwalk spirals down along the rock face, with a light structure; there is a small platform by the water. The vegetation is self-seeded—trees grow from rock crevices, and pioneer plants cover the slopes, with no signs of artificial planting. Human scale is tiny in front of the massive rock face. Avoid: leveling and greening the rock face, adding large artificial buildings and recreational facilities, making the pond a regular shape, using neat artificial plantings.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座由採石場改造的公園。巨大的岩壁被完整保留,可以看見開採時留下的垂直切面、鑽孔的痕跡與階梯狀的作業平台,岩石的層理與顏色一覽無遺。底部的凹坑積水成為一座深潭,水色因為礦物質而呈現濃烈的青綠。新的介入極為克制:一道細瘦的耐候鋼棧道貼著岩壁盤旋而下,結構輕薄;水邊有一小片平台。植栽是自生的——樹木從岩縫中長出來,坡面上覆蓋著先驅植物,沒有人工種植的痕跡。人的尺度在巨大的岩壁前極小。避免:把岩壁整平與綠化覆蓋、加入大型的人工建築與遊憩設施、把水池做成規則的形狀、使用整齊的人工植栽。