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Hsu Fu Chu's Yong Quan Public Park unfolds from an elevated aerial vantage point that reveals a masterfully orchestrated urban oasis, where an expansive naturalistic water body occupies the…

Yong Quan Public Park by Ching-I Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.


GoldUrban Planning· 2020

Yong Quan Public Park

by Ching-I Wu

Client: S.D. Atelier Design and Planning

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category

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The Design

About Yong Quan Public Park

Yong Quan is a public park created on the site of a former sugar factory. The park covers 22672 square meters and keeps the traces of the old factory railway. A circular trail surrounds a central lake that follows the route of the former main railway line. An observation deck extends from Fuxing Road Bridge toward the lake, and an elevated wooden deck reaches an island. A wide square beside the main factory building can hold a large crowd. Springs and gravel layers feed the lake, which supports aquatic plants and water birds.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Yong Quan Public Park is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Yong Quan Public Park is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Yong Quan Public Park creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Travelling though the river of time, and discovering the history of an old sugar factory.

Walking on the shore trail left with traces of the previous sugar factory railway, we feel the historical atmosphere where the scenery of the circular trail surrounding the lake fascinatingly resembles a ring on lake telling us the history of the sugar factory. From the tour to Taichyu Factory of Teikoku Seitou K.K., I see not only the charm of vitality, also the complete history.
Dimensions & Packaging
The property is 22672 square meters.
Tags
Landscape, Public Park, Historical, Factory,Nature
Production Technology
To the south of the square, there are magnificent forest and hill landscape attractive to animals and people. The irregular riverside slopes and the elevated wood deck connected to the island on the central lake constitute the best platform for ecological education. What we see by walking on the shore trail are the traces of the historical sugar factory railway. The lake surrounded by the circular trail was the main railway of the in the past. The circular trail has a comprehensive view to the entire sugar factory, from which we learn not only its lovely appearance, also its complete history.
Design Challenge
Thirdly, the new attractions of recreational activities, the plentiful shops, convenient transportation systems, and the integration of business and humanity.

Lastly, the new location of the east district of Taichung, the conceptual image of East Gate of the provincial capital of Taichung, the view on the elevated railways, and the renovations of shops in Taiping District and Beitun District.
Research
Secondly, the regeneration of industrial culture and the continuation of sugar industry and railway culture embodied by the architectures and the environment arrange of the sugar factory combined with the railway traffic flow and scenery demonstrate exemplify the conceptual images and traces of sugar factory derived from the memory passing through the tunnel.
Inspiration
This project reorganizing the history of the sugar factory develops the stories and functions of space conformable with the developments of the factory. People can be closer to nature on the lake observation deck extended from Fuxing Road Bridge to the central lake. Following the riverside pathway, we see the main building of the sugar factory where the wide square can accommodate a large crowd.
Project Duration
The project finished on the 16th of
Operation Flow
As to environmental resources and design skills, the lake signifying the urban hydrological and ecological sustainability is constructed with the drainage system with the springs and the gravel layers. A large volume of groundwater therefore flows towards the construction site. The underground tunnel systems support the growth of aquatic plants and permanent pond that establish the education of urban hydrology, the ecological island, and the habitat for water birds.
Team Members
Director: Ching-I Wu
Designer: Fu Chu Hsu, Wen Tai Hsieh, Chia Hua Lin
Image Credits
Ching-I Wu

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