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University of International Relations Campus

2009-09-09

Project Information

Project Location:
China Beijing
Project Scale:
13.2 Hectares
Design Time:
2005
Build Time:
2006
Client:
University of International Realations

Project Profile

1. Project Statement

University of International Relations is located at Poshang village, Haidian district, Beijing. it is surrounded by imperial gardens scenery spots , and next the Central Party School of C.P.C.

The campus is convenient in transportation for it is closed to the 5th ring road and Yuanmingyuan West road. The campus takes up 14.2ha, the constructed area is 3 ha, the building density is 21.1%.

2. Objective and Challenge

2 main factors influence the formation of the current landscape pattern

1) Outside factors of the current landscape pattern - Summer palace, Yuanming Yuan, and other Chinese traditional gardens. The design of Chinese traditional gardens result from the imitation of natural mountains and water. The Summer palace and Yuanming Yuan are the highest achievements of Chinese traditional garden design and thoroughly understanding nature.

2) In our rapid developing society now, the environment is degrading, and resources are close to running out. Our landscape design in this context should rethink the definition of mountains and water. In the reconstruction project of University of International Realations, we simply focus on ecology, humanism, respecting history, and protecting the environment. It is the integration of innovative design concepts and traditional elements, and this is a new demonstrative project in campus landscape design.

3. Design Strategy

The University of International Relations is a special university to cultivate communication between China and the world, a bridge that connect China and the world. It is a communication-oriented university and aims to be an open campus.

Our design is to create the language for communication among architecture, nature, and people, which would increase the diversity and activity of the campus. Through our design, we would like to show that there is communication between architecture and landscape, the communication between landscape and human beings.