自由廣場蘋果店

建設單位：蘋果公司

項目地點：意大利米蘭

設計單位：福斯特建筑事務所

設計/建造：2016 / 2018 年

攝影：Nigel Young / 福斯特建筑事務所

Client: Apple Coporation

Location: Milan, Italy

Architect: Foster + Partners

Design / Completion: 2016 / 2018

Photography: Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

米蘭自由廣場蘋果店是福斯特事務所與蘋果公司的最新合作。遵循場地的特殊進入方式，新旗艦店將位于現有的廣場之下， 打造一個新的公眾廣場，水幕作為商店的入口將非常加分。

與傳統的店鋪門面不同，這個蘋果專賣店廣場被設想為公共集會的場所。零售區被故意隱藏在廣場下面， 通過兩層水幕之后進入，這樣設計是源于意大利公共空間的具有歷史意義的噴泉以及米蘭和運河之間的緊密聯系。玻璃電梯將提供一個額外的可進入的入口。

除此之外, 店鋪已經計劃舉辦一系列技術研討會和兒童節目來鼓勵公眾使用這個空間。

Apple Piazza Liberty is an ensemble of two fundamental elements, a stepped plaza and a fountain. Located just off the Corso Vittorio Emanuele - one of the most popular pedestrian streets in Milan - visitors are drawn towards the piazza by the sight of the dramatic new fountain.

A celebration of the joys of city life and embodying its dynamic nature, the signature water feature is an interactive, multisensory experience. Visitors enter the fountain through a glass-covered entrance enveloped by the sights and sounds of vertical jets of water that splash against the 26-foot high glass walls. An immersive recreation of the childhood game of running through fountains, the experience changes throughout the day as sunlight filters through the water, while at night the glass ceiling creates a kaleidoscopic effect, with the water falling down the walls, and its reflections travelling infinitely up the sky.

The fountain flows down into the base of the Amphitheatre, a new social hub and an outdoor extension of ‘Today at Apple’.The amphitheater is defined by broad and sun-soaked stone steps descending below street level and opening up to a stage, backed by a second fountain’s wall of water. The entire plaza is newly created and paved with Beola Grigia - a typical local stone from Lombardy, and surrounded by 21 new Gleditsia Sunburst trees.