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TCL：红音咖啡庭院位于格里菲斯大学昆士兰音乐学院建筑群的褶皱之中，虽空间紧凑，却层次丰富。TCL与Architectus Conrad Gargett合作，将原本被忽视的庭院重新构想为一个集聚会、排练、演出与休憩于一体的户外空间。作为音乐学院地下一层整体翻新工程的一部分，该项目在充分尊重场地原有特质的基础上，将一处边缘空间转变为具有鲜明身份和公共活力的场所。
设计融合了音乐与景观的元素。借鉴黄金比例——这一长久以来与音乐和谐相关的原理，庭院的比例、几何形态和节奏被巧妙地重新调整，使空间获得平衡感与清晰的构图。原有的成熟植被得以保留，新的设计则谨慎地融入既有的花园肌理之中。庭院四周由建筑遮蔽，仅接受散射光线，因此采用了克制而本土化的植物配置，选用耐阴物种，以增强生态连续性，并为栖息于此的本地水龙蜥提供支持。
轻盈的材料策略是该项目的核心。受限的场地条件和敏感的地基状况促使设计尽可能在原地重复利用和回收材料，仅辅以低影响且可持续获取的新材料。设计并未覆盖原有场地，而是揭示并丰富了已有的环境。更新后的露台、聚集空间和户外舞台将音乐学院的功能延伸至内部工作室之外，使音乐活动与校园日常生活自然融入周边景观之中。
尽管规模不大，庭院却展现出惊人的多功能性。它既是可供使用的表演场地，也是非正式的社交空间，更是在机构核心地带一处宁静休憩的花园。声学设计融入了围合结构、材料选择与空间形态之中，使人们能够在此进行亲密而无需扩音的活动。最终形成的景观富有文化共鸣，生态协调且精心布局——这是一个虽小却深刻支持教育、生态与艺术的小型项目。
TCL：Red Note Café Courtyard is a compact but richly layered landscape set within the architectural folds of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music at Griffith University. Working with Architectus Conrad Gargett, TCL reimagined a previously overlooked courtyard as an outdoor room for gathering, rehearsal, performance and pause. Part of the broader refurbishment of the Conservatorium’s lower ground floor, the project transforms a residual space into a place with clear identity and public life while remaining deeply attentive to the existing character of the site.
The design is shaped by both music and landscape. Drawing on the golden ratio, a principle long associated with musical harmony, the courtyard’s proportions, geometry and rhythm were subtly recalibrated to give the space balance and compositional clarity. Existing mature vegetation was retained and new interventions were stitched carefully into the established garden fabric. Sheltered by surrounding buildings and receiving only filtered light, the courtyard called for a restrained planting palette of native, low-light tolerant species that deepen ecological continuity and support the resident water dragons that already inhabited the site.
A light-touch material strategy was central to the project. Limited access and sensitive ground conditions encouraged the extensive reuse and recycling of materials in situ, supplemented only by low-impact, sustainably sourced additions. Rather than overwrite the site, the design reveals and enriches what was already there. Updated decks, gathering areas and an outdoor stage extend the life of the Conservatorium beyond its internal studios, allowing music and daily campus activity to spill outward into the landscape.
Although modest in scale, the courtyard operates with remarkable versatility. It functions as an accessible performance setting, an informal social space and a quiet garden of respite within the heart of the institution. Acoustic sensitivity is embedded in the enclosure, materials and spatial form, enabling intimate, unamplified use. The result is a landscape that is culturally resonant, ecologically attuned and finely composed – a small project that meaningfully supports education, ecology and the arts.
Project Name: Red Note Café Courtyard
Completion Year: 2021
Scale: Small courtyard landscape within the Queensland Conservatorium lower-ground-floor precinct
Project Location: Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, South Brisbane / Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland, Australia, on the land of the Turrbal and Yuggera people
Landscape/Architecture Firm: TCL
Website: https://tcl.net.au/projects/red-note-cafe-courtyard
Contact e-mail: bris@tcl.net.au
Lead Landscape Architects: Tim Ivers (TCL)
Design Team:
TCL
Architectus Conrad Gargett
Clients: Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University
Collaborators: Architectus Conrad Gargett
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Photo Credits: Christopher Wardle
Photographer’s Website: https://chriswardledesign.com/photography
“ 尽管规模不大，庭院却展现出惊人的多功能性。”
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