SDA 2022 Entries

• Landscape + Public Realm - The space around, between and within buildings that is publicly accessible, including streets, squares, parks and open spaces. These areas and settings support or facilitate public life and social interaction. 

The 16.8-hectare urban park, formerly known as Guanlan people's park, is located in
Fucheng street, Longhua district, Shenzhen, adjacent to Meilin expressway. After contacting
the project, We fully sorted out the current landscape resources and structure, proposed the
design plan based on the space anchor of the first year of civil law, and organized three
international workshops to demonstrate and optimize the plan. The newly designed Shenzhen
Civil Code Park contains urban park, memorial park and mountain park, aiming to explore
the symbiotic relationship between ecology and culture. Through the main entrance square,
civil law calendar axis, central activity area, outdoor theatre, civil law ring and civil law
museum, inner lake water system, civil law subdivision and other landscape nodes, the park
creates a multi-level space, while conveying the theme of civil law and providing a
rich space for the public activities.

The "civil ring" highlights the motif circle symbolizing the core spirit of the civil code. The
ring is suspended in the current mountain and integrated into the mountain. While
highlighting the theme of civil law, it creates a rich sense of place and sublimates the site
spirit. The main statue of civil law projection center symbolizes the core of civil law protection:
civil rights. Combined with the site features along the way, the circular air corridor exhibits
the six basic principles of civil law in different sections, including the principle of equality,
the principle of voluntariness, the principle of fairness, and the principle of good faith, by
means of sculpting landscape details and interactive devices.

The civil law museum is located on the north side of the civil law ring. It is protected under
the civil law ring corridor by taking advantage of the mountain's current steep slope and
reinforcing the slope. The whole building block is divided into two sections by the atrium,
which is combined with the transparent glass facade to reduce the pressure on the
surrounding environment. The atrium's folding staircase is connected to the civil circular
corridor, allowing visitors to move freely between the roof floor, inside and outside. In front
of the building are the park's ecological lake and outdoor theater. As the most cohesive
hinterland space in the site, it also forms the natural shared living room of the whole Civil
Code Ring Park, where citizens can have a variety of leisure activities.

The cost of the project is 121 million and the completion date is 7 January, 2021.

Credits:

Project name：Shenzhen Civil Code Park
Competition (1st Prize): 2017
Date: 2017-2021
Location: Shenzhen, China
Site Area:16.8Ha
Typology: Park Design, Municipal Landscape
Landscape Architect: PMA (PolyMorphArchitects)
Principal in Charge: Chuan Wang
Project Team: Xiaoyi Teng, Yujun Zou,Lingwei Wan, Ziyun Chen,Xinyuan Zhang, Rui Chen,Qiran Zhang,Ying Mu,Zhao Jiang, Haitao Ma,Jintong Li(Landscape Design),Pingshan Qu, Luoluo Li,Ting Xu,Kai Gao,Huan Liu,Guo Miu, Harshdeep Arora,Shail Paragkumar Patel ,Zorzi Giovanni,Teskov Filip Svetoslavov,Pilar Menendez (Architecture Design),Chen chen(Technical Consultant)
Clients: Shenzhen Long hua District Government and Long hua District Urban Management Bureau，Justice Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality, China Resource（Shenzhen）Limited
Constructor: Shenzhen Hua Chuang Building Decoration Co., Ltd
Local Design Institute (Conceptual Design): Shenzhen BLY Landscape & Architecture Planning & Design Institute
Local Design Institute (Preliminary Design and Construction Drawing): Shenzhen Hope Landscape,Architecture and Planning Co.,Ltd, Architectural Design and Research Institute of Guangdong Province
Photography: © Li Wei © Arch-Exist Photography

As the punchline of the whole project, the ‘civil ring’ highlights the motif circle and symbolizes the core spirit of Chinese civil code. The ‘civil ring’ uses perforated aluminum plate as the surface to convey a sense of lightness and transparent visual effect. The ring is suspended on the mountain side and is integrated into the site. It combines the natural environment and terrain of the mountain, forms a rich spatial experience while protecting the current vegetation to a greatest extent.

Another important element of the park is the civil law museum located on the north side of the ‘civil ring’. Transparent glass façade is used for the museum to create a space hierarchy as well as the visual translucency which can remove the demarcation of the separating spaces. The use of this material blurs the boundary between built environment and natural environment, forming a natural shared living room where every citizen can come and enjoy.

Apart from that, the entrance of Civil Code Park has largely used weathering steel as the main material, and use high-tolerance bamboo as the surface material for the stage of the amphitheater. These two materials both have the characteristics of corrosion-resistance, durability and energy-efficiency. The natural texture and wood-like appearance of the high-tolerance bamboo bring a sense of nature and a new vitality into the site.

All the materials highlighted above has indicated the respect of the exiting environment and contribute to a larger discourse of the symbiotic relationship between ecology and culture.

Shenzhen Civil Code Park has a 16.8-hectare large landscape garden, with a greening rate of up to 78%. Our approaches of exploring the relationship between built environment and natural environment as well as nature and culture really form an urban oasis in Shenzhen. It contributes to an environmental sustainable future, brings the nature back to the people that every citizen can enjoy the natural comfort and quite in the city.