| Developer Wuxi Jingkai Public Construction Project Management Co., Ltd. | Landscape Design Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., Ltd. | Project Location Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China | Design Time Dec. 2022 - Dec. 2023 |
Landscape Renovation of Qingshu Road and Shangxian Road
With the improvement of quality of life, urban environment enhancement increasingly emphasizes high-quality and refined design requirements. The project is located in the Wuxi Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangsu. Two roads, adjacent to the Shangxian River Wetland Park, connect the International Conference Center and the Wuxi Olympic Sports Center (under construction) from north to south. As the pilot area of the Sino- Swiss Eco-City, it aims to build a future green, low-carbon, and dynamic new city. These two north-south roads traverse the city, and the design transforms their function from simple passages into low-carbon themed experience blocks integrating multiple complexes.
The project focuses on the comfort of non-motorized traffic participants such as pedestrians and cyclists. Combined with the green spaces on both sides of the road, rest, display, and interactive spaces are set up. It adheres to the concept of low-impact development and retains a large number of trees and plants on the site to integrate new scenes with the original vegetation. It also incorporates sponge facilities, arranging linear sunken green spaces and rain gardens on one side of the sidewalk to collect rainwater and integrate them into the city's overall sponge system to improve the city’s ability to withstand rain and floods.
Additionally, it focuses on adding smart interactive experience facilities and online low-carbon applications in the road green space. It breaks the spatial boundaries of the roads and creates scenes based on the site space, such as the Zero-carbon Sports Field, Wisdom Tree, and Low-carbon Emission Gallery.
The Zero-carbon Sports Field incorporates cycling facilities that interact with lightbulb-themed sculptures, intuitively reflecting the energy conversion of kinetic energy, solar energy, and electrical energy. The smart facilities in the attached sports field instantly display the amount and nature of tourists’ exercise and reflect the body status through detection. The online points exchanged can be redeemed for gifts at the vending machine.
The Low Carbon Emission Gallery uses real-time data to display the carbon sink situation of photovoltaic smart trees and on-site retained plants, and explains the technical principles of sponge facilities through videos. Citizens can fully understand the diverse knowledge of carbon sinks, carbon emission reduction, and low-carbon ecological science in the gallery. Multiple low-carbon material recycling nodes are set up along the permeable promenade. Through various experience spaces, the participation and readability of the city are improved, promoting the formation of a low-carbon living circle. It allows citizens to have interactive experiences and enjoy fun while understanding low-carbon and green knowledge, forming a road construction model that integrates tourism, learning, and recreation, advocating a green and low-carbon lifestyle, and assisting in the construction of low-carbon cities in the region.
