Zhao Zhou Community Park by Xie Weiqiang

Zhao Zhou Community Park by Xie Weiqiang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Competition Category.

BronzeLandscape Design· 2022

Zhao Zhou Community Park

by Xie Weiqiang

Client: Xie Weiqiang

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Landscape Design Category

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The Design

About Zhao Zhou Community Park

Zhao Zhou is a community park located in Haimen District, Nantong City, China. The park serves two roles: everyday community service and a commemorative green space honoring the Chinese musician Shen Zhaozhou. Music is the theme, and ten scenes guide visitors through the site. The core area follows a Fibonacci spiral composition, with the Art Center at the center enclosed by a series of inner courtyards. Roads run north to south and are lined with orderly rows of plants. Existing ditches were transformed into an ecological dry stream that collects rainwater.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Zhao Zhou Community Park is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Zhao Zhou Community Park is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Zhao Zhou Community Park splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: Slightly WarmSymmetry: HorizontalBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Following the urban texture of Haimen District, the roads in this park are in north-south direction, complemented with orderly arrays of plants. The project applies Fibonacci spiral in the composition of its core area, and takes music as the theme to create ten sceneries. In the center of the park, the Art Center is linked and enclosed by a series of inner courtyards, creating a simple and lively spatial order.
Dimensions & Packaging: Tpye: Park
Site area: 4.6 ha.
Tags: Landmark, Theme park, Public landscape, Shen Zhaozhou, Garden City
Production Technology: The project has transformed the existing ditches into an ecological dry stream, and adopted the Fibonacci spiral composition to change the flat terrain into a site that is apt to collect rainwater, giving full play to the multiple functions of"sponge city".
Design Challenge: How to integrate the dual functions of the park:"community service"and"commemorative green space" is a challenge of the project. Following to the urban texture of Haimen District, the design has created a public theme park in honor of Chinese musician and Pipa player Shen Zhaozhou (1858-1929).
Research: Equal attention has placed on the ecological preservation and landscape design. A variety of plants are flexibly used for landscaping. The project also gives full play to the multiple functions of the "sponge city" and leverages landscaping approaches to achieve seepage, stagnation, storage, purification, use and drainage of rainwater. Besides, the application of new materials and technologies enable us to achieve an economical and environmental-friendly solutions.
Inspiration: The project is a public green space located in Haimen District, Nantong City. As an a public green space serving the community, it also contributes to shaping the urban culture image. The key issues and challenges of this project are:how to integrate the dual functions of the park"community service"and"commemorative green space", how to incorporate music elements into the park, and how to deal with the relationship between ecology and the garden.
Project Duration: Location: Haimen District, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China
Start: 2019
Completed: 2020
Operation Flow: The project is a commemorative landscape space promoting the Jianghai culture of Haimen and showcasing the city's cultural identity, which makes it a modern community park with dual attributes.
Following to the urban texture, the design has created a public theme park in honor of Chinese musician Shen Zhaozhou (1858-1929). It applies Fibonacci spiral in the composition of the core area, and takes music as the theme to create ten scenes, together with which offering the visitors a music journey.
Team Members: Designers: Xie Weiqiang, Li Xuesong, Wang Guiping, Pan Wei, Li Jiafeng, Zhou Qinghe, Chen Li, He Zhongqi, Liu Zimeng, Yuan Bo, Duan Haiyan
Company: Shanghai Pudong Architecture Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Image Credits: Lu Bing