Silver Urban Planning · 2020
Waterfront Pearl Waterfront Park
by Yun Du
- Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Urban Planning
- CLIENT: BLVD International
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 41,984
- Verification code AD0A9243D8 · Verify this award
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About Waterfront Pearl Waterfront Park
Waterfront Pearl is a waterfront park located along the Jialing River in Nanchong, China. The park covers about 1,200,000 square meters and includes both landscape design and architecture design. The existing water and dam topography of the site is used to form a shoal shape to the west of Bashan Mountain. The terrain is reshaped and planted to strengthen the natural setting. The layout refers to the local Yuji culture and to the story of Da Yu controlling the floods. The result is a public space for leisure, cultural display and festival events.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Waterfront Pearl Waterfront Park is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Waterfront Pearl Waterfront Park is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Waterfront Pearl Waterfront Park is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The design aims to create the characteristic tourism destination and the authenticity and uniqueness of the area. Through the differential development with other cities in the upper and lower reaches of the Jialing River Basin, it forms the core engine to drive urban development, and it brings sustainable development impetus to the city with the diversified settings.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Project area:1,200,000 sqm
It contains landscape design and architecture design. - Tags
- BLVD, Sichuan, Urban Design, Landscape, Architecture, Waterfront, Park, Ecological, Cultural, Tourism
- Production Technology
- The design breaks through the connection between mountains and rivers, balance the proportion of cities and nature, create an ideal urban ecological axis, and form a good urban landscape pattern. In order to overcome the construction difficulties caused by complex forms, we adopt a parameterized approach to shape the building and use BIM for design and management, and use fiber concrete and other new materials for construction. The roof is shaped into a landscape of accessible vegetation.
- Design Challenge
- Since the project is a large-scale waterfront park, how to maintain the original waterfront ecology and reduce the impact of site development is a major starting point of the design. For this reason, we introduce Jialing River into the site to create a closer intuitive experience for people's hydrophilic activities. At the same time, we strengthen the natural context, and strive to form a secluded Southern painting scene by combing the terrain of the earth landscape and planting plants.
- Research
- We use the existing topography of "water" and "dam" in the site to create a shoal shape with shocking impact force in the west of Bashan Mountain. In view of the long history of Yuji culture of Nanbu, the designer proposed the concept of "Pearl Jialing and Bright Riverside". Under the premise of meeting the requirements of large-scale park and characteristic visual landscape belt, the culture of Da Yu (the third of the three legendary emperors who created the Chinese state) is included in the whole site and the life of Da Yu is displayed through line construction and form symbol.
- Inspiration
- Relying on a river and five lakes, the design uses the traditional and modern design methods to create the feature with the prospect of the city on the water and the water in the city. The site narrates the story of Da Yu controlling the Floods, continues the spirit of floods control, highlight the history of Yuji and create a cultural card for the integration of water cities in Nanbu.
- Project Duration
- The project started in February 2018 and will be finished in 2021 in Nanchong.
- Operation Flow
- The design aims to build a landscape landmark of Jialing waterfront, a holiday engine of tourism in Nanbu, and a happy place for health preservation in Western Sichuan.
- Patents
- BLVD International
- Image Credits
- BLVD International
