Beijing, China
More than 700 years ago, Zhangjiawan became an important land and water transportation hub with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal development, a cultural pastoral town with profound cultural deposits and superior ecological resources.
Nowadays, the construction of the Beijing sub-center has brought a new development opportunity for the southern area of Zhangjiawan town.
For its ecological design, Urban Design of the Southern Part of Zhangjiawan Town was awarded with a 2021 Green Good Design® Award by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum.
The project aims to realize the diversified integration of tradition and modernity, new economy and agricultural base, ecology and science, and technology through the exploration of urban design at the overall, regional, and node levels.
On the overall level, relying on ecological and cultural resources, the area undertakes regional development and integrates diverse growth groups from the outside.
It forms three development zones with their own characteristics, which are integrated with water networks, fields, and oceans.
The central area is a new industry and garden residential integration development area surrounded by ecological pastoral infiltration.
The core of the center area is combined with the rich water and pastoral into the experience of agricultural science technology and cultural leisure sports, which will form a green heart.
It is surrounded by the layout of the cultural exhibition, commercial shopping, education, administrative management, and other core service functions.
On the west side is a cultural and art exhibition area with multi-cultural experience and interaction with the waterfront countryside and villages. The waterfront culture and leisure center will be shaped in the west end, combined with convenient regional transportation and water body gathering.
The functions of cultural display, tourism, vacation, garden business, and rural residential areas will be interwoven with the ecology and rural areas.
The east area is an ecological pastoral experience area that integrates rural villages and agricultural leisure experience in the landscape.
In the renovation and upgrading of rural villages, the plan follows the features and features of traditional dwellings in the north along the Grand Canal and form six kinds of courtyard units, which form neighborhoods, groups, and villages step by step.
It also corresponds to greening, public space, and public service facilities arrangement at all levels.
In the future, Zhangjiawan will become the heart of the interwoven collision between culture and ecology, continuation and innovation.
Project: Urban Design of the Southern Part of Zhangjiawan Town Songzhuang Xiaopu Art District Detailed Urban Design
Landscape Architects: ISA Internationales Stadtbauatelier, Beijing, China and Stuttgart, Germany
Client: Beijing Zhangjiawan People’s Government and Zhang Wan Zhong Tian (Beijing) Investment, Bejing, China