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Shanghai Houtan Park by Turenscape
Built on a brownfield
of a former industrial site, Houtan Park is a regenerative living landscape on
Shanghai’s Huangpu riverfront. The park’s constructed wetland, ecological flood
control, reclaimed industrial structures and materials, and urban agriculture
are integral components of an overall restorative design strategy to treat
polluted river water and recover the degraded waterfront in an aesthetically pleasing
way.
2 Project Narratives
2.1 Objectives and Challenges
The site is a narrow linear 14-hectare (34.6 acre) band located along the Huangpu River waterfront in Shanghai, China. This brownfield, previously owned by a steel factory and a shipyard, had few industrial structures remaining and the site was largely used as a landfill and lay-down yard for industrial materials.
2.1 Objectives and Challenges
The site is a narrow linear 14-hectare (34.6 acre) band located along the Huangpu River waterfront in Shanghai, China. This brownfield, previously owned by a steel factory and a shipyard, had few industrial structures remaining and the site was largely used as a landfill and lay-down yard for industrial materials.
Objectives：The objective of the park design was to: create a
green Expo, accommodate for a large influx of visitors during the exposition
from May to October, demonstrate green technologies, transform a unique space
to make the Expo an unforgettable event, and transition into a permanent public
waterfront park after the Expo.
Challenges：The first challenge was
restoring the degraded environment. The site is a brownfield littered with
industrial and construction debris both on the surface and buried throughout
the site. The water of Huangpu River is highly polluted with a national water
quality ranking of Lower Grade V, the lowest grade on a scale of I-V and is
considered unsafe for swimming and recreation and devoid of aquatic life. The
eminent site design challenge was to transform this degraded landscape into a
safe and pleasant public space. The second challenge was to improve flood control.
The existing concrete floodwall was designed to protect against a 1,000-year
flood event with a top elevation of 6.7 meters (22 feet), but it is rigid and
lifeless. The 2.1 meter (6-foot) daily tidal fluctuation creates a muddy and
littered shoreline and is currently inaccessible to the public. A conventional
retaining wall would continue to limit accessibility and preclude habitat
creation along the water’s edge, so an alternative flood control design
proposal was necessary. The third challenge was the site itself. The area is
long and narrow locked between the Huangpu River and an urban express way with
water frontage is over 1.7 kilometers (one mile) in length but averaging only
30-80 meters (100-265 feet) in width.
EANA Park by BASE Landscape
Architecture
Atlanterhavsvegen
use of water to guide the structure of
planting – think thames barrier park – reflect the importance of the water to
the site.
