Kongjian Yu Turenscape 1998-2018

Enrico Falqui

Arte Cinese e Arte della Sopravvivenza 13

Chinese Art and the Art of Survival 19

Caterina Padoa Schioppa

Premessa 25

Foreword 29

La città resiliente di Kongjian Yu 33

Kongjian Yu’s resilient city 49

Opere | Works 1998-2018 65

Zhongshan Shipyard Park 66 | Shenyang Jianzhu University Campus 74

Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park 82 | Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park 92

Qinhuangdao Beach Restoration 102 | Qian’an Sanlihe Greenway 110

Qunli Stormwater Park 118 | Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park 128

Harbin Wetland Park 138 | Jinhua Mei Garden 146 | Jinhua Yanweizhou Park 158

Quzhou Luming Park 166 | Chengtoushan Archeological Park 172

Sanya Mangrove Park 184 | Puyangjiang River Corridor 194

Haikou Meishe River Greenway & Fengxiang Park 204

Kazan Kaban Lakes Waterfront 216

Caterina Padoa Schioppa

Venti anni di teorie e progetti. Una conversazione con Kongjian Yu 223

Twenty years of theories and projects. A conversation with Kongjian Yu 239

Bibliografia su Kongjian Yu | Bibliography on Kongjian Yu 253

Riferimenti bibliografici | Bibliographical references 257

The editorial series MAESTRI DELPAESAG-GIO has been created to disclose a culture of urban landscape design and contemporary metropolitan territories, through the knowl-edge of the thought and the design works of the great Masters of Landscape Architecture and Garden that characterize the various Eu-ropean and international Landscape Schools, since the second half of the twentieth centu-ry to nowdays. This series, whose texts will be in Italian and English languages, aims also to publish research and critical essays of the thinking and the design approach of the Masters of the Architecture of the contem-porary landscape.

As the pioneer of Water Urbanism and of the Sponge City model, Kongjian Yu is not only one of the most influential landscape architects on the current scene, he is also a keen observer of the present. His design proposals and meditations on China’s urban planning provide a practical-conceptual reference for the emerging questions regarding our planet, increasingly threatened by environmental catastrophes, hydrogeological risks and water crisis. Inspired by the foundational geometries rooted in rural landscapes, Kongjian Yu proposes low-tech water infrastructures that, by activating an adaptive behavior, recreate intermediate landscapes between city and nature, concrete representations of the friendship between man and the element that generates and preserves life more than any other.