Kongjian Yu and Turenscape Design Institute create an urban riverside wetland landscape park, emphasizing ‘flooding as a friend’ while preserving Buddhist culture

In the lead-up to The Park People Conference, taking place September 21-23, 2022, Park People met with Kongjian Yu. Kongjian is a landscape architect at Peking University and founder of the firm Turenscape. Turenscape is one of the first and largest private architecture, landscape architecture and urban design firms in China. The Chinese government applies Kongjian’s pioneering research on ecological security patterns and sponge cities to guide its nationwide ecological protection and restoratio...

1． Project Statement： Fenghuang Road, located in Sanya, Hainan. It is an important traffic artery in downtown Sanya city. The design boundary of Fenghuang road landscape improvement project ranging from West Sinopec gas station to Luhutou Plaza in the total length of 11.8km. The total area of the improvement project is 75.3 hectares. The total area of phase one is about 45.8 hectares; the total area of phase two is about 29.5 hectares. 2． Site and Challenges： Fenghuang Road is one...

1. Project Statement Fenghuang Road, located in Sanya, Hainan. It is an important traffic artery in downtown Sanya city. The design boundary of Fenghuang road landscape improvement project ranging from West Sinopec gas station to Luhutou Plaza in the total length of 11.8km. The total area of the improvement project is 75.3 hectares. The total area of phase one is about 45.8 hectares; the total area of phase two is about 29.5 hectares. 2. Objective and Challenge Fenghuang Road is one...

1. Project Introduction The water system landscape project of Haidong Science and Technology Park is located in Haidong area of Qinghai Province, adjacent to the Huangshui River in the north. The Huangshui River flows through the whole territory from west to east, and the terrain is high in the south and low in the north, and slopes from the southwest to the northeast. The area where the Haidong Science and Technology Park is located is dependent on mountains, waters and cities, and the te...

1. Project Introduction The Yangtse River is located in the Shang Hua area of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, at the confluence of the Jinhua and Lan rivers, on relatively flat terrain, and is an inland river. The design area is about 48.52 hectares, the river length is about 5 kilometres and the average width of the riverbed is approximately 60 metres. 2. Objectives and Challenges 2.1 The challenge: how to combine the current situation and the master planning to build a sponge park. T...

The effects of global climate change are likely to worsen an already fragile environment. The predicted more frequent extreme weather conditions can be expected to cause devastating damage to vulnerable African populations as severe floods, drought, and disease threaten people's survival and security. The conventional and expensive, irreversible grey infrastructure that supports development in the Global North is unlikely to adapt to the extreme climate situations that many African cities face. ...

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1．Project Statement Bahe Landscape Bridge is located in the center of Olympic sports center area. Due to the upcoming National Games in Sep 2021, there is an urgent to build a landscape bridge over Bahe river to ease the flow of people from four landmark buildings and the whole Olympic sports area. Besides, it also can improve greenway connections on the east and west sides of Bahe River to complete 295km “Sanheyishan Greenway” connections. The total length of Xi'an Bahe Landscape Bridg...