Crosswalk by GPY Arquitectos

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这是一个2013年在西班牙临时安装的人行道项目，位于赫尔佐格&德梅隆设计的景观大水池之上，当年这个建成时白得发亮的大水池在岁月和流水的冲刷下早已变成大地色，不过它的边界依然牢不可破，划分出水池内与水池外的界限，即便在水池的水排干时，这道界限也依然清晰的存在。而横贯其上的人行横道重新定义了这个空间的边界，打破水池的边，邀请人们进入到这个水池中，穿越它，使用它，玩它，溜达它。日常生活因界线的模糊而贯入其中。

Ephemeral Installation by Constanze Sixt & Rafael Escobedo de La Riva

The Crosswalk – Cruzar el Charco project, one of the installations featured at the collective exhibition 40 Años después (La Recova Art Centre,  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2013), arose from the study of urban situations that demonstrate how citizen action can transform public space through occupation and appropriation. Crosswalk – Cruzar el Charco (Crossing the Pond) contributes to this phenomenon: in clearly outlining the spaces for interaction, the installation intends to make local residents more aware of, and sensitive to, public spaces, while inviting them to (re-)use these spaces, to incorporate their daily lives into them, thus blurring the limits between private and public, between personal and collective.

简简单单的平面化斑马线具备巨大的多维激发效应，不在让人们观赏这个水池，在它的引诱下，人们开始以更加积极地方式利用这片水景。

Our installation is located on the Plaza de España, which has recently been converted into a public fountain in the form of a large basin of water or charco (pond). At first sight, this conversion would appear to deprive this public space of its role as a meeting point or public stage, rendering it solely contemplative.

走，滑冰，跑，跳，玩杂技，淌水…..从这里过不光到海边要走更少的路，这里还充满了可能性和想象释放力。

However, another look shows that this space is slowly being taken over by the people of Santa Cruz, who have begun, almost furtively, to make active use of the fountain: crossing, walking or skating in the basin when it is empty, and splashing in it or running boat races when it is full. As it turns out, the space is bursting with possibilities, a blank canvas, open to the imagination.

改变真的要用力才能有成效么？用聪明而轻巧的策略轻轻也可以带来大不同。这个项目就让城市公共空间发生质变，作为催化剂触发空间与人们前所未有的互动，以俏皮欢乐的方式为城市空间带来了新的可能性。

Our work, Crosswalk – Cruzar el Charco, consists of laying down a crosswalk outside of its usual context, across the basin, marking a new route for passers-by using the square. The project aims to help reclaim this urban public space, acting as a collective catalyst that invites the people of Santa Cruz to make use of it, increasing pedestrian traffic and legitimizing access to the basin. This initiative, by intensifying citizen interaction and highlighting the possibilities offered by this new space, offers a playful contribution to the reinvention and revitalization of the city’s most central public square.

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