MVRDVのパートナーであるステファン・デ・コーニングは言います。
「いつの日か、都市を切り裂く騒音と不快感を伴う高速道路はなくなるかもしれませんが、現時点では残念ながら必要悪であり、ムンバイでは他の都市よりも多く見ることができます」
「One Green Mileは、高架道路が通過する場所に何かを還元することを期待するとしたらどうだろう、という問いかけをしています。高架道路は、暑い都市に日陰を提供し、高層ビルで開発することができない小さな土地を作ることができるのです。そこをパブリックスペースにするのは、それほどおかしなことではありません」
デザインは、歩行者と自転車のつながりを強化し、より快適でアクセスしやすいエリアとなるようデザインされています。舗装、自転車道、明るく大規模なゼブラ交差点がアクセスと安全性を促進します。また、途切れないモビリティネットワークとモビリティハブを組み込むことでアクセス性を向上させ、サイクリングを活性化させます。このエリアの照明コンセプトは、プログラム要素やアーバンファニチャーの特徴と連動して、認識できる場所をつくり、24時間体制で安全を確保します。

このプロジェクトは、高架道路の下を利用することで、高架道路自体の価値を高め、自動車を運ぶだけでなく、シェルターや居住空間として新たな目的を獲得するという、循環型経済のアプローチを例証しています。エンジニアリングは、モンスーンの水を貯留・ろ過し、One Green Mileに広がる植栽に水を与えます。日陰のある緑豊かな公共空間に焦点を当てた「One Green Mile」は、市内の他の場所でも簡単に繰り返すことができます。今回のプロジェクトでは、将来的にはムンバイのマハラシュミー競馬場からダラヴィ・マングローブ地区までの総延長11.22kmのうち、3kmまで公共空間の活性化を拡大することが計画されています。

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Making infrastructure do more: MVRDV completes One Green Mile in Mumbai, inserting a community space beneath a flyover

MVRDV, working alongside co-architects StudioPOD, has completed construction of One Green Mile, transforming a series of neglected spaces below Mumbai’s Senapati Bapat Marg flyover. Turning an overbearing element of concrete infrastructure into a public space for the entire local community, the design adds much-needed amenities and greenery, improves mobility, and creates a strong visual identity for the area. On a broader scale, the design offers a repeatable approach to sustainable urban development that asserts a new benchmark for underused public spaces in the intense Indian metropolis.

The Senapati Bapat Marg flyover is part of a series of major roads that extend for over 11 kilometres through the heart of Mumbai, generating significant noise pollution and creating a barrier between neighbouring areas that limits options for mobility. In connection with an office development in the area, local architecture firm StudioPOD was tasked by Nucleus Office Parks to improve an 800-metre stretch of streetscape running alongside the flyover. For the most transformative part of this scheme, in an unused space beneath the flyover structure itself, they invited MVRDV to collaborate on a community space that would address the flyover’s negative impact while responding to the area’s lack of greenery and physical amenities.

StudioPOD initially solved the traffic and street profiles and helped to define the programme and identify the target groups. Expanding upon this, MVRDV designed sinuous blue stripes to create a cohesive visual identity used across all elements of the space, creating a concept for One Green Mile that offers a delightful and holistic urban spatial experience.

A hilly paved landscape transforms the 2-dimensional visual features into a 3D spatial experience, accommodating a whole range of different programmes and providing a dynamic physical attraction. Visual accent colours in materials and graphics make all aspects of the intervention recognizable as a whole. The space is divided into a series of public “rooms” with diverse functions: lounge, gym, shaded seating area, performance space, and reading room. Planting extends throughout the space. Greenery in the design – featured on a series of screens lining the space, an archway at the entrance, and in retaining walls and planters – promotes biodiversity, while cooling the surrounding spaces and dampening noise pollution.

“Perhaps one day we will see the end of noisy, unpleasant highways carving up our cities, but for now they are still unfortunately a necessary evil – one you can see in Mumbai more than most cities”, says MVRDV partner Stefan de Koning. “One Green Mile asks the question: what if we expected highways to give something back to the places they cut through? A flyover can provide some shade in a hot city, and creates a small area of land that can’t be developed with tall buildings. It’s not such a crazy idea to make that into a public space.”
The design enhances connections for pedestrians and cyclists to make the area more comfortable and accessible. Paving, bicycle paths, and bright, large-scale zebra crossings promote access and safety. It improves accessibility with the incorporation of an uninterrupted mobility network and mobility hub to stimulate cycling. The area’s lighting concept works alongside programmatic elements and urban furniture features to make a recognisable place, and ensure safety around the clock.

The project exemplifies a circular economy approach; by utilizing the space underneath, the flyover itself increases in value; in addition to transporting cars, it acquires a new purpose as a sheltered, occupied public space. Engineering features store and filter monsoon water to irrigate One Green Mile’s extensive network of plants. With its focus on shaded and inclusive green public spaces, One Green Mile can easily be repeated elsewhere in the city. For the current project, a planned future extension will expand the revitalisation of public space to 3 kilometres of the flyover’s 11.22-kilometre total stretch, which extends from Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi racecourse to the Dharavi Mangrove Region.

■建築概要

Project Name: One Green Mile
Location: Mumbai, India
Year: 2022
Client: Nucleus Office Park
Size and Programme: Public space
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Credits
Architect: MVRDV
Founding Partner in charge: Jacob van Rijs
Partner: Stefan de Koning Design Team: Ronald Hoogeveen, Valentina Chiappa Nuñez, Jose Manuel Garcia Garcia, Prajakta Gawde
Strategy and Development: Sruti Thakrar
Copyright: MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries
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Partners: Co-architect: StudioPOD
Photographs: ©Suleiman Merchant