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Daxing Park
Discipline : Urban Design, Landscape Architecture & Landscaping
Categories : Landscape Architecture / Public Space Landscape Architecture : Silver Certification
Unlike most parks, Daxing Park touches the doorstep of the surrounding buildings. It is not severed from the city, nor isolated by a perimeter road.
It does not sit as an island but extends as a park territory directly from the
material of the architecture.
The parking garage, subway station, restaurants, homes, and commercial
spaces all plug directly into the fabric of the park. In this context, the design
of the park does not call for the broadly planted zones or grand spaces of the
larger world parks. Rather it calls for a scattering of outdoor rooms, a sequence
of intensely programmed and usable park spaces that fill this territory between
the architecture.
The green interstitial spaces play an important role in providing tree canopies for
shade, absorbing water run-off from paths and architecture, storing and treating
storm-water for park irrigation, and all of the other benefits ornamental landscapes
provide. But it is very clear that these functions are secondary to providing much
needed human environments for cultural engagement.
Residents of the houses opening onto the park play chess and Ping-Pong
alongside those who have traveled by bike from the surrounding developments.
It remains to be seen as the park matures if the subway and park and ride
facilities will pull in an even broader public to enjoy the park.
Collaboration
Landscape Architecture : Ballistic Architecture Machine
Other : CABR（中国建筑科学研究院有限公司）
Other : Shanghai Tianxia (上海天夏)
Architect : Sunlay Design Group
Architect : CLOU Architects
