Qijiang Park

Qijiang Park

Qijiang Park is a theme park reconstructed from the former site of Yuezhong shipyard in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. It introduces some design concepts of Western environmentalism, ecological restoration and urban renewal. It is a successful example of the protection and reuse of the old industrial site. The park was completed in October 2001 and won the annual honorary design award of the American Association of landscape architects, the 2003 China Architectural Art Award, the gold award of the 10th National Art Exhibition in 2004 and the comprehensive Gold Award of Chinese modern excellent national architecture at the end of 2002. In 2009, with its unique design, Qijiang Park won the 2009 Uli Global Excellence Award from San Francisco.

Qijiang Park is located in the center of Zhongshan City, adjacent to Shiqi River (Qijiang) in the East, Zhongshan Road in the west, Zhongshan Bridge in the south, Fuhua hotel in the north, Sunwen West Road Cultural Tourism pedestrian street and Zhongshan Park in the northeast, and Yixian Lake Park in the north.

The overall planning area of Qijiang Park is 11 hectares, including 3.6 hectares of water surface and 3000 square meters of buildings. Qijiang Park reasonably retains the most representative plants, buildings and production tools on the original site, uses modern design techniques to carry out artistic treatment on them, interprets a site with stories, connects the landmark objects on the original site, such as dock, skeleton water tower, rail, machine, gantry crane, etc., records the glory and red memory of the shipyard, and forms a beautiful scene It's a complete story.

Main attractions

Scenery

Some of the main landscapes, installations and buildings in Qijiang Park include amber water tower, skeleton water tower, red memory, Zhongshan Art Museum, etc.

Amber water tower is located on Rongshu island on the edge of Qijiang river. It is made of a 50-60-year-old water tower covered with a glass shell with a metal frame. The designer thinks that the water tower is like an ancient century insect solidified in amber, so it is named amber water tower. The

The luminous body on the top of the water tower will emit light at night after receiving the solar energy. The light water tower not only forms a scene of the Qijiang river at night, but also plays the role of pilotage.

Skeleton water tower is another water tower located in the middle of the park. The original design is to peel off the cement of an old water tower and leave the remaining steel bars in the original place. The designer thinks that it is just like that people in the world, whether men or women, high or low, will eventually belong to a pair of white bones. However, due to the safety problems of the original water tower structure, the original design could not be successfully dealt with, and finally it was made of steel according to the original size.

Red memory is a work of installation art. The installation is surrounded by a red open iron box with a pool of clear water. One entrance of the installation is facing the entrance of the park, and the two exits are facing the amber water tower and the skeleton water tower respectively. The designer's idea comes from the revolutionary era of the central Guangdong shipyard, including the decade of the cultural revolution, and wants to remind the audience of the famous sentence "revolution is not a dinner party" through the strong red color.

Zhongshan art museum is the main building of Qijiang Park. It is two stories high and covers an area of 2500 square meters. The shape design of the museum also adopts industrial elements as the theme, which comes down in one continuous line with the park. The external wall column of the museum is made of lemon yellow cement column, and the I-steel frame with iron cyan color is put on it, and the large floor glass is interposed. The whole design is like a factory workshop.

Park features

Qijiang Park is the former site of Yuezhong shipyard. Up to now, there are still a lot of shipbuilding plants and equipment left in the yard. Yuezhong shipyard has experienced the arduous and special historical vicissitudes in the process of new China's industrialization, and the arduous entrepreneurial process of a particular era and generation, which has been precipitated into a real and precious urban memory. You see, the middle-aged and old people who stop in front of the old factories, equipment and trees in the park are reluctant to leave for a long time. Maybe it is the docks, workshops, lighthouses and gantry cranes that once familiar to them that make them feel friendly and arouse their memories of the past It is one of the important factors for the success of Qijiang Park that people can feel the charm of Zhongshan Regional culture which is different from other cities.

The integration of historical features and modernity is another feature of Qijiang Park. The park forms a skeleton with original trees and some factory buildings, and is organized with the unique elements of the original shipyard, such as railway tracks, iron boats, lighthouses, etc., reflecting the historical characteristics. At the same time, some pieces and sculptures are constructed with new technology, new materials and new technology, such as lone chimney shadow, bare steel water tower and pole column array, forming a contrast between the new and the old, and the interweaving of history and reality. Taking the design of park road network as an example, the road network is composed of several groups of radioactive roads, which is not only different from the curve road network of traditional Chinese gardens, but also different from the regular geometry of Western gardens. It can be seen that the design of the park is both innovative and connotative, reflecting the history of Zhongshan's industrialization process and the characteristics of modern society, so that the park fully embodies its own unique personality.

Hydrophilic, ecological protection is the third feature of Qijiang Park. The design of the park retains the big trees in the original shipyard along the Qijiang River, protects the original ecology, adopts the way of Green Island, and meets the requirements of the water section of the Qijiang River by the way of river in the river, which not only meets the requirements of water conservancy, but also adds a scene to the park - Gurong new island. The park also deals with the relationship between the inner lake and the outer river and introduces the scenery of Qijiang River into the park. What is particularly praiseworthy is that there is no fence in the park, and streams are skillfully used to define the park, so that the park and its surroundings are connected harmoniously. Hydrophilic is human nature, the design of this water flow is to let people enjoy the human nature.

Park overview

Category: Urban Park and green space

Setting: Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province

Design time: June 1999 to October 2001

Design client: Zhongshan Planning Bureau

Completion time: January 2002

Park Area: 110000 square meters

Building area: 3000 square meters

Main designer: Yu Kongjian, Pang Wei, Huang Zhengzheng, Qiu Qinyuan, Li Xianghua, Shihong.

Awards:

ASLA 2002 honorary design award.

2003 China Architectural Art Award.

Gold Award of the 10th National Art Exhibition in 2004.

2004 China modern excellent national architecture comprehensive Gold Award.

In 2008, Qijiang Park won the 22nd world city waterfront outstanding design "highest honor award", which is the only "highest honor award" awarded by the world waterfront center in 2008.

In 2009, he won the 2009 Uli Asia Pacific outstanding award from the Urban Land Institute.

geographical position

The site of Zhongshan Qijiang Park used to be the famous Yuezhong shipyard in Zhongshan. As a symbol of the development of Zhongshan's socialist industrialization, it began in the early 1950s and ended in the late 1990s. In the past decades, it has gone through the arduous and meaningful vicissitudes of the industrialization process of new China. Under the specific historical background, the arduous entrepreneurial process of several generations precipitated here as a real and precious city memory. To this end, we have retained those old factories and machinery and equipment which are engraved with sincerity and magnificence, but have been eroded beyond recognition by the years

And with our respect and treasure, they will be transformed into a note full of life.

Facing the beautiful city in the future, the context here belongs to the humanistic aura of labor and creators. This project is undertaken by Guangzhou natives who are in the initial stage of fashion. In the face of a classic design, the technical and quality requirements are far from the most difficult thing. What they pursue is a richer expression of spirit and connotation. In line with the same goal, engineers and designers constantly integrate and conquer each other. Many of these events make the journey of implementing the concept of local people full of historical significance, even like the work itself, and finally become the eternal classic in the history of the development of local people.

Construction process

Basic conditions of Qijiang Park

Zhongshan City is located in the south of the Pearl River Delta, with Guangzhou in the north, Zhuhai and Macao in the south, and Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the East. It covers an area of 1800 square kilometers and has a population of about 1.34 million. It is the hometown of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a great modern Chinese, and also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese.

Zhongshan is one of the coastal open cities in China. Since the reform and opening up, the basic undertakings of Zhongshan have developed rapidly, and its economy has made rapid progress. It is known as one of the "four tigers" in Guangdong. Urban construction is changing with each passing day. In the 1990s, it won the "national garden city", "national health city", "national environmental protection model city", "National Science and technology advanced city", "China Excellent Tourism City", "national smooth engineering model city", "national quality advanced City" and the United Nations "Habitat Award". Therefore, Zhongshan City has all the conditions to realize a theme park with avant-garde design concept in terms of economy and humanity.

Reuse of industrial sites

Design is a kind of cultural phenomenon, which connects culture and nature through the choice of material, energy flow and land use. The original site of Qijiang Park is a flat abandoned land. In terms of design ideas, the designers chose the modern western environment

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