03 The green infrastructure, edge, patch, and block

Course: [ Landscape design ]

Tutor : Jian Zhang rczhjxmw@163.com

sustainable design & the story of the ecology around the bridge

09/2021 - 10/2021

Site: NYC Individual Work

The whole project is designed around the surrounding area and under the viaduct, rationally utilizing the site space, serving the surrounding community and putting people first. By integrating the concepts of ecology, sports, entertainment, leisure, culture and so on, people can have enough green space, high green space accessibility, complete service facilities, and more convenient access to the surrounding important sites. Connecting the landscape facilities around the bridge with the ecological site, revitalizing an otherwise fragmented and chaotic place and highlighting the importance of landscape in the city.

The upper part of the hollow space is not fully utilized.

There was a lot of traffic, it was dangerous for people to enter the intermediate area, and the field was noisy.

In the design scope, the amount of green space per capita is very small, and the green area of the site is less than the surrounding community, and is concentrated in remote areas. Many communities lack green space and services. In densely populated communities, the quality of green space is poor, there is no sports field and large or small parks, green space accessibility is poor. For children, the lack of a large number of friendly natural facilities to play on the ground.

There are few commercial activities in the neighborhood, but there are too many people, resulting in a low per capita activity, facilities and consumption rate, which is not in line with the expectation of the surrounding population density and facilities ratio. Compared with the whole New York, it is very few.

EMPTY POCKET PARKS :

Plenty of pocket parks are left unused, overgrown and underused. Many parts of the area hidden by the bridge are devoid of people and green Spaces.

THE WASTELAND OF UNDERPASS :

The population is very dense, but there are a lot of abandoned sites and abandoned facilities, and they do not make full use of the site facilities, so as to bring suitable leisure parks and high green space accessibility to the people. Moreover, the community is close to the traffic and the crowd is very dense, which makes the urban landscape particularly important.

There are many manufacturing industries, so people have a high frequency of round-trip and a high workload. However, abandoned land blocks the convenient traffic road, and the surrounding landscape is not good, which greatly affects the manufacturing industry and the accessibility of the people's site.

Sports, skateboarding, running, calories

Leisure, party, entertainment Life and movement are indispensable, so that the space under the bridge is reborn

Large woodlands, ecological education, are an integral part of the city

Humanoid route

Humanoid route Greenbelt Greenbelt Fully open space Fully open space Vehicle route

Vehicle route Hard paving Hard paving

As an indispensable part of urban green space activities, the playground connects the surrounding environment, promotes the activity of surrounding communities, and enhances people's accessibility to the green space under the viaduct.

The abandoned and stacked site is reinvigorated. Green space, activities, performances and rest are integrated into each other, and run through the site to become a holiday time-out point for surrounding residents and an important part of urban green space.

Fully open space

Sunflower world

Fully

The recreation park consists of several circles around it. It is located on the side of the city viaduct. The community is also very close to it, the traffic is large, large flow of people.

In this space, people can relax and hold small parties in which children can play hide-and-seek, run and play in the sand, with a large lawn in the middle for a dozen people to rest or picnic.

The whole park is made up of a sunflower sea. The site is educational and is used to exchange urban landscape, development and ecological issues. In the middle of the sunflower Sea, the wooden field is a gathering place, where you can camp and sing songs.

The Sunflower Sea is also a space for exploration, bringing infinite fantasy to children.