Micro apartments could help cities retain their diversity says Ian Schrager

由专筑网Ann，刘庆新编译

酒店和房地产开发商Ian Schrager认为，目前纽约豪华公寓市场持续繁荣，“这是一个问题”，这将会对城市产生不良影响，然而微型公寓能够解决这一问题。

Schrager对Dezeen表示，随着大量富豪涌入纽约，对其他城市的多元化造成了一定威胁。

“对于一个城市来说，丧失多样性和居民中富豪比例过大，并不是好的现象。”

他补充道：“中产阶级占大多数，并拥有一定比例的富豪，这样的结构是合理的，能够有助于城市的多元化发展。有助于激发城市活力与城市建设，我认为这是一个问题。”

The booming market for luxury apartments in New York "is an issue" that could damage the city, according to hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager – and micro apartments could be the solution.
Speaking to Dezeen, Schrager said that the influx of rich people into New York and other cities threatened their diversity.
"I do think that not having diversity in cities is a bad thing," he said. "And it just being rich people is not a good thing."
He added: "I think an area gentrifying and having some rich people is fine, as long as the area has diversity. It is a diversity that brings the energy, and brings the greatness to a city. I think that's an issue."

Ian Schrager对Dezeen表示，微型公寓是“一个非常具有潜力的解决方案”来化解城市多样性下降的问题/Ian Schrager told Dezeen that micro apartments are "potentially a great solution" to declining diversity in cities

Schrager作为最有影响力的酒店和房地产开发商之一，坦言自己对目前超级富豪正深深的刺痛着曼哈顿以外居民这一状况十分担忧。

Dezeen去年的专栏提到过，建筑师Stephen Holl表示曼哈顿“巨大的收入差距令人咋舌”，评论员Aaron Betsky也表示曼哈顿即将成为一个“没有穷人、没有生产也没有冲突”的地方。

纽约街头甚至涌现了反对大规模建设超高层住宅建筑的抗议民众。

Schrager, one of the most influential living hoteliers and developers, spoke amid concern that the super-rich are pricing everyone else out of Manhattan.
In a column for Dezeen last year, architect Stephen Holl wrote that Manhattan's "astonishingly unequal income has begun to take architectural form" while critic Aaron Betsky wrote that Manhattan is becoming somewhere "there is no place for poor people, for production, or even for conflict".
There have even been protests on the streets of New York against the rash of supertall residential buildings going up in the city.

Steven Holl和评论员Aaron Betsky都表示对曼哈顿不断增加的造价昂贵的超高层建筑表示担忧/Architect Steven Holl and critic Aaron Betsky both expressed concern about Manhattan's boom in expensive condo towers

Schrager的职业生涯中建设了许多具有战略意义的夜店、酒店项目，还包括近期的许多公寓建筑，他表示新一代“微型公寓”的兴起能够保持城市的多样性。

My Micro NY是纽约的首个微型公寓项目，目前已经竣工。55个公寓单元面积从250—370平方英尺（23至35平方米）不等。

Schrager, who during his career has launched game-changing nightclubs, hotels and more recently condo buildings, said that a new generation of "micro apartment" developments could help cities retain their mix.
New York's first micro apartment building, called My Micro NY, has recently been completed. It contains 55 units of between 250 and 370 square feet (23 and 35 square metres).

My Micro NY由nArchitects设计，今年年初竣工，是纽约首个微型公寓项目/Completed earlier this year, My Micro NY by nArchitects is New York's first micro-apartment building

该项目位于曼哈顿基普湾，由纽约前市长Michael Bloomberg发起，用以缓解经济适用住房短缺的问题。

Bloomberg 在2012年微型住宅项目启动时表示：“人们都梦想居住在纽约，我们必须提供一种新型适用的住房模式，并保证安全与经济性，通过创新，满足居民的需求。”

同年，旧金山市长通过投票通过一项决议，允许建造20平方米以下的公寓以缓解经济适用房短缺问题。

The building, at Kips Bay in Manhattan, was the result of a competition initiated by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who saw micro apartments as a way of alleviating the shortage of affordable housing in the city.
"People from all over the world want to live in New York City, and we must develop a new, scalable housing model that is safe, affordable and innovative to meet their needs," Bloomberg said when the Kips Bay competition was launched in 2012.
In the same year, San Francisco city chiefs voted to allow the construction of apartments as small as 20 square metres to help alleviate the affordable housing shortage.

My Micro NY的55间公寓单元面积从23至34平方米不等，内置家具的起居室可拓展成卧室以高效利用空间/The 55 apartments in My Micro NY range from 23 to 34 square metres with built-in furniture to turn the living rooms into bedrooms

纽约和一些其他城市正在尝试建造面积更小的微型住宅。

“你知道的，我认为这些微型公寓具有很大的市场和潜力，有一种切实可行的解决方案。旧金山目前也在尝试这一项目，通过设计让空间变得更加高效，这是令人十分兴奋的事。” Schrager表示。

Further similar developments are now being built in New York and other cities.
"You know I think these micro apartments they are being built are potentially a great solution," Schrager said. "They're doing them in San Francisco. I think there's a design problem to make these places efficient. And I think that's a very exciting prospect."

旧金山市长通过投票通过一项决议，允许建造20平方米以下的公寓以缓解经济适用房短缺问题/San Francisco city chiefs voted to allow the development of apartments as small as 20 square metres to tackle the city's housing shortage

Schrager在Dezeen的采访中表明了以上想法，并探讨了他与Arata Isozaki, Philippe Starck 和 Herzog & de Meuron等先锋事务所和设计师们的合作项目与课题。Schrager的主要项目包括Studio 54和Palladium夜店，还有含Royalton和Delano品牌在内的摩根酒店–曾为世界上第一家精品酒店。

Schrager表示自己错过了Studio 54时代的老纽约，又补充道：“我想我们都怀念过去。我的父母就是这样，我仍记得与父母一起驱车出游的时候，他们总说，这里曾经更好。F Scott Fitzgerald也说过逝去的总是更好的。人们总是这样说。”

Schrager made the comments in an interview with Dezeen, in which he discussed his career and his collaborations with leading architects and designers including Arata Isozaki, Philippe Starck and Herzog & de Meuron. Key projects by Schrager include the Studio 54 and Palladium nightclubs and hotels including Morgans – the first ever "boutique" hotel – the Royalton and the Delano.
Schrager said he missed the old New York of the Studio 54 era but added: "I think we all do [miss the past]. I think my parents did. You know I remember driving around with my parents with them saying that it used to be better. F Scott Fitzgerald said it used to be better. People always say that."


出处：本文译自www.dezeen.com/，转载请注明出处。