曼海姆是德国西南部的一座城市，以其方格布局、宫殿和城市地标–水塔（Wasserturm）及其巴洛克式花园而闻名。在曼海姆的北部，市中心–被内卡河打断–与内卡城西区和东区接壤。这种直接位于河边的位置导致了一条绿色走廊的发展–内卡威斯（Neckarwiese）–作为城市的开放空间，被城市的公民用来进行休闲和体育活动。在大学医院方向的上游，赫尔曼-海因里希-乌弗（Hermann-Heinrich-Ufer）有一个可供公众使用的篮球场，近年来，该球场被各种洪水严重破坏。

Mannheim, a city in southwest Germany, is known for its square-grid layout, its palace, and its city landmark – the Wasserturm (water tower) and its baroque gardens. In the northern part of Mannheim, the city center – interrupted by the Neckar River – borders the districts of Neckarstadt West and East. This direct location on the river has led to the development of a green corridor – the Neckarwiese – as an urban open space, which is used by the city’s citizens for leisure and sports activities. Upstream, in the direction of the university hospital, there is a publicly accessible basketball court on Hermann-Heinrich-Ufer, which has been badly damaged by various floods in recent years.

球场被两座高层建筑群–科里尼中心和内卡鲁夫建筑群–所包围，与邻近的内卡河和弗里德里希-埃伯特大桥形成了一个多面的城市以及自然形势。奥地利能量饮料制造商红牛以这种城市内部的相互作用为契机，选择该篮球场作为其半场篮球之旅的中转站，并在此过程中对其进行翻新和重新设计。由此产生的作品，以超级图形的形式，名为：68-曼海姆。

Surrounded by two high-rise complexes – the Collini Centre and the Neckaruferbebauung – the court forms a multifaceted urban as well as natural situation with the adjacent Neckar and the Friedrich Ebert Bridge. The Austrian energy drink manufacturer Red Bull took this inner-city interplay as an opportunity to select the basketball court as a stopover for its Half Court Basketball Tour, and to renovate and redesign it in the process. The resulting work, in the form of a super-graphic, is entitled: 68 – Mannheim.

受委托的平面设计师弗洛里安-布德克（Florian Budke）在他的作品中通常采用排版的方法，他想为这个城市创造一个本地参考。”在我的项目中，对我来说，重要的是图形总是与地方和人联系在一起，并与他们建立起一种关系–这发生在超大的 “68”（邮政编码的第一个数字）、曼海姆的字母、抽象的水塔和城市的颜色的形式中–这是一个来自曼海姆的超级图形，用于曼海姆。

The commissioned graphic designer Florian Budke – who usually takes a typographic approach in his work – wanted to create a local reference to the city: “In my projects, it is important to me that the graphic always links to the place as well as the people and enters into a relationship with them – this happens here in the form of an oversized “68” (the first digits of the postcode), the lettering Mannheim, the abstracted water tower and the colors of the city – a super-graphic from Mannheim for Mannheim.”

这一连串数字的绘画，占地超过1000平方米，可以被视为–类似于运动衫–曼海姆市的一个巨大的背面数字。它的形式语言参考了曼海姆的巴洛克式开放空间设计–这个城市的地标。为了强调与这个城市标志的联系，水塔本身、喷泉和植物嵌入等结构元素通过抽象的符号被纳入超级图形中。

The painting of this sequence of numbers, which covers an area of more than 1000 square meters, can be perceived – analogously to sports jerseys – as a gigantic back number of the city of Mannheim. Its formal language establishes a reference to the baroque open space design of the Mannheim – the city’s landmark. To emphasize the connection to this urban icon, structural elements such as the water tower itself, the fountain, and the plant embedding were incorporated into the super-graphic by means of abstract symbols.

比赛场地的中心–水塔–还有一个隐藏的设计深度：从弗里德里希-埃伯特大桥上看，还可以看到一个篮球架，把这个地点和所提供的运动联系起来。数字6的上半部分可以被视为一个 “手臂”，将灰黑色的篮球送入每个篮筐。在红牛半场系列巡回赛的成功举办之后，该球场被移交给公众，并从那时起一直在热闹地使用。”很高兴看到，通过日常使用，超级图形不仅仅是一个视觉对象。球场再次成为一个邀请人们见面、逗留并最终一起打篮球的地方–68曼海姆–来自曼海姆并为曼海姆而打！”Budke说。

The center of the playing field – the water tower – has a further, hidden design depth: viewed from the Friedrich Ebert Bridge, a basketball hoop can also be recognized in it, linking the location with the sport on offer. The upper part of the number 6 can be perceived as an “arm” that transports the grey-black basketball into each basket. After the successful tour stop of the Red Bull Half Court Series, the court was handed over to the public and has been in lively use ever since. “It’s nice to see that the Super-graphic is more than just a visual object through daily use. The court has once again become a place that invites people to meet, linger and ultimately play basketball together – 68 Mannheim – from and for Mannheim!” says Budke.

Designers: Florian Budke
Area : 1000 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Marius Heimburger, Daniel Schulz
Manufacturers : Mapei
Lead Architect : Florian Budke
Agency : All Hustle No Luck
City : Mannheim
Country : Germany