Urban Landscape Design for The Two Sides of Qian Tang River in Hangzhou City

Project Profile

An Ecological City emphasizes efficiency, economy and a harmonious balance between human kind, the city and nature. This project restores the natural processes and regains riparian patterns. It can be seen as a sensitive city which emphasizes human-oriented design, at a convenient scale while giving the city an identity; extending and developing historical connections, demonstrating the local spirit of the region.

It can be seen as an alive - convenient, comfortable, safe and livable city. A city for tourism with charming and beautiful views, allowing a brand-new urban image, special experience. The following concepts are intended for a conceptual support of the project:

1: Through the natural force of the river, help to maintain the oasis outside the levee, restore the nimbus of the Qiantang River.

2: Irrigate from the upstream to form a human-oriented and comfortable landscape along the riparian area of the Qiantang River.

3: Parallel corridors: At the outside is the highway, at the middle is the corridor for community daily life, and at the inner side is the recreational corridor along the river.

4: Understanding the Qiantang River as an important recreational space, and network of “greenways” and “blueways”

5: Cultural Tourism Center，CBD, and metropolis commercial center has composite the general arrangement of the city area, which has an explicit function and a clear defined urban image.

6: Community as basic unit, which is the example of organic structure and neo-urbanism.

7: An “Active Strategy” concept of sustainable development.