Baitang ecological botanical garden

Baitang ecological botanical garden

"Baitang Botanical Park" is one of the places for Suzhou Industrial Park Management Committee to improve the comprehensive urban functions and fully meet the needs of residents in the second and third phase Development Zone on the East Bank of Jinji Lake in Suzhou Industrial Park and Suzhou citizens for centralized leisure, vacation, entertainment and culture.

Introduction to scenic spots

"Baitang Botanical Park" is located in the north of the middle section of modern Avenue, the most modern landscape Avenue in Suzhou Industrial Park. The "Jinji Lake" and "Sha Lake" in its jurisdiction are complementary to each other. Surrounded by municipal roads, the traffic is convenient and fast.

Plot size

"Baitang Botanical Park" is located in the original "Baitang Lake" plot. The total area of the park is about 60.5 hectares. Among them: the land area is 47.3 hectares (green area is 37 hectares). The water surface area is 13.2 hectares.

Design Institute

Concept and extended design: Nick Northen, chief designer of Nita Landscape Design Institute in Holland.

Construction drawing design -- Urban Construction Research Institute

Design concept

1. Between "city" and "wild"

It is necessary to create a natural environment by artificial means to form a natural ecological environment of lakes, valleys, streams, wetlands, mountains, slopes, forests and other forms, highlighting the realm of urban oasis.

2. Between "mountain" and "water"

Taking the landscape as the framework, making full use of the original water system and building mountains by artificial soil piling, a landscape garden space with mountains surrounded by water and mountains surrounded by water is formed.

3. Between "dynamic" and "static"

Using the traditional and modern garden building concept, around the main ring road of the park, and in the main scenic spots and the main ring road to create a small garden, dynamic and static, virtual and real.

4. Between "forest" and "wood"

Make full use of plants to create forest space with dense mountain forest, reflect the seasonal change characteristics of ecological space, and fully display the ornamental space, meadow space, nursery planting forest and other different plant landscape.

5. Between "tradition" and "modern"

Drawing lessons from the spatial organization form of "step by step and different sceneries" in traditional Chinese gardens, we can form a variety of moving lines and lines of sight, and use modern materials and design techniques to create an ecological park close to nature.

Design layout

From west to East, the park is divided into four areas: North-South regular planting exhibition area, island ecological natural area, Lake area and mountain natural ecological forest. Through the two sides of the East-West main tour line of these four sections, we use artificial design techniques to arrange the precious flower garden and Wujue garden, etc., forming a sequence of lines and points, which contrasts with the natural background.

1. Artificial planting exhibition area

In this area, the nursery forest land is planted on the side of Nanshi street. On the one hand, it is considered to replace the seedlings in the park in the future, and on the other hand, it is used as the reserved land for later commercial development. The flower and shrub exhibition area is arranged in the narrow strip of north-south direction on the east side of the nursery forest land, with various low characteristic flower and shrub as the exhibition theme, and the geometric layout is formed by dividing the East-West linear canal and small garden road, so that visitors can shuttle back and forth between the flower border and experience the colorful flowers and natural fragrance. On the water side, a music fountain square and a hydrophilic platform are arranged as a distribution activity space.

2. Island ecological natural area

The original two islands of Baitang lake are used to form four scattered islands and a wetland through artificial island construction and water system transformation. Each island is planted with ecological forests highlighting seasonal changes, highlighting different plant species in spring, summer, autumn and winter. The island and the wetland are connected by wooden trestles, so that tourists can sometimes face the water and enter the forest, and combine tourism, appreciation and recreation.

Spring Island: take the soft gentle slope lawn as the keynote, plant large areas of cherry blossom, Magnolia and other spring flowering plants to highlight the vitality of spring.

Summer island: planting Magnolia grandiflora, Lagerstroemia indica, Albizzia and other trees, together with the wetland landscape, to create a peaceful atmosphere.

Autumn Island: through planting ginkgo, Acer truncatum, Osmanthus fragrans, Lysimachia and other tree species, create a dense and deep atmosphere.

Winter Island: evergreen coniferous trees such as Pinus elliottii, Pinus thunbergii and Pinus densiflora are selected to show the vitality of winter plants.

3. Lake District

Make use of the original Baitang lake to form the largest water surface in the middle of the park, and organize boating and other water activities on the lake, so that visitors can enjoy the beauty of lake light, mountain scenery and trees.

4. Mountainous natural ecological forest region

In the east of the park, artificial means are used to pile up soil and fold mountains to form artificial mountains with an altitude of about 10-16 meters, and the original mountain forest ecosystem is simulated to carry out large-scale greening of the mountains. A variety of landscapes and activity spaces such as streams, ponds, rock gardens, bird habitat gardens, meadows and children's playground are designed in the mountain forest to form a recreation space with undulating terrain, verdant trees and diverse mountain natural landscape.

Park topography

The whole park can be roughly divided into West, middle and east areas, and the terrain gradually increases from west to East.

West District: the terrain is relatively flat, with "west main entrance of the park, integrated service building 1 (Music fog Square), integrated service building 3, chartering Management Office" and sightseeing bus start (end) stations, all of which are relatively concentrated tourist activities in the park.

Central District: it is bounded by "spring, summer, autumn and winter" and the central lake. Compared with the Western District, the terrain is higher and more uneven. First, it is built to properly block the sight of visitors, and at the same time, it is built according to the characteristics of "spring, summer, autumn and winter" season and suitable plant growth. Among them, the "cruise vehicle repair shop" is arranged in "Spring Island", and the "VIP reception room" is arranged in "autumn island".

Eastern District: the highest terrain. The main peak height is 14.8m and the secondary peak height is 11m. "Integrated service building 2, integrated service building 4" and "tea house on the top of the mountain" are arranged. In order to reflect the original wilderness taste of suburban wild forest, two "artificial streams" are built on the mountain, one is "water stream" and the other is "dry stream". At the same time, three "children's playgrounds" of different sizes are arranged in the proper position on the mountain.

Design of tour system

Entrance and exit:

The park has three entrances. Among them, there are two entrances and exits for tourists, which are respectively arranged on the East and west sides of linnanshi street and Xingtang street. There is one management entrance and exit, not only on the side close to Nanshi street. A parking lot will be set up next to the two entrances and exits.

Traveling system:

Around the park, a circular main road shared by people and vehicles (battery tour bus and project management vehicle) is arranged. Connecting the East and West entrances and exits, there is more than one arc-shaped main tourist pedestrian road, and other branches and paths are interspersed with the main road.

Main attractions

Exhibition area of rare flowers

On the side of the natural ecological forest area near the lake, an oval ornamental planting area with sloping terrain is designed. With green mountains as the background and green water as the guide, the colorful flower beds can be seen around the lake, which has become a highlight of the park.

Wujue Garden

On the south side of the lake area, along the East-West side of the main garden, there are five senses experience garden with "taste", "touch", "sight", "hearing" and "smell".

Taste Garden: the grid is rotated and crisscrossed to form a geometric activity space. Natural plants with typical taste are selected and planted in the square, such as tea trees, fruit trees (loquat, cherry, pear, fig), with plant introduction board. Chinese dining hall, service and rest corridor are set up in the building body of the garden to manage various taste experience projects, such as tea art, fruit art, fruit art and so on Pharmaceutical art and other business projects.

Tactile Garden: the unique landscape is created by the overall undulation of the ground. It is divided by the modular grid. It emphasizes the multiple contacts with nature in the process of human activities. The special arrangement of interests forces people to sit, stand, lean, lie, lie and lean. In this process, a variety of natural materials are used to fully connect people with these materials Touch and create different experiences. Set up some artificial fog, spray rain and other small natural landscape in the grid, in order to bring the touch of change.

Visual Garden: through the design of tour route, some unconventional design processing will appear after people enter the garden, showing people the unconventional visual effect of natural landscape. By using a variety of modern materials (such as mirror, different transparent glass, metal, etc.) to re integrate the natural landscape to create a unique landscape, it shows that if we change the angle, people will have a completely different understanding of the landscape from the daily impression.

Hearing Garden: we use some devices to amplify the representative sounds of nature, such as the blooming of water flow and the singing of birds in the breeze, so that people can arouse their love and return to nature through the sound in the garden. Through some special scientific and technological means, we can simulate some sounds that can't be heard in ordinary ways, such as "blooming of flowers" and "seeds breaking the ground", so as to increase the interest and knowledge of the garden, and attract more attention Attract more people to visit here.

Olfactory Garden: through the geometric layout, plants with different fragrance are planted in different areas. On the special oval grass slope, plants with strong ornamental and obvious fragrance are planted. By setting staggered wooden platform and concrete frame, people can stop and rest. In the alternate activity system, people can travel through different olfactory experiences, and through the planting design, it has strong ornamental and interesting

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