Riverside Landscape of Shengeng Village
- Project created by Zhang Yingxuan,
- won 2022, Innovation
- from Residential Buildings
Shengeng riverside park is located in the riverside area of Shengeng village, Shenzhen. The project aims to create a natural waterfront landscape belt suitable for living, industry, and ecology. After completion, it can become a leisure and fitness place with beautiful scenery for nearby residents, and significantly improve the business atmosphere of the waterfront style street of the Shengeng Village complex.
The iconic bow square, theme sculpture, interactive art installation, and other elements are like a giant ship sailing to the sea, showing the new urban image of Shenzhen regional culture and increasing the leisure and green slow life experience. The project design fully respects the current situation, sets theme nodes, and constructs characteristic activity space in combination with the site characteristics and surrounding land conditions. Through the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the system, create a high-quality dynamic waterfront with convenient transportation, internal and external connectivity, multiple functions, changeable spatial rhythm, and rich cultural connotation. The greening planting design is mainly composed of evergreen tree species, supplemented by flowering color leaf plants, and trees and shrubs are matched to enrich the plant level.
The designer skillfully integrates the landscape design into the flood control function of the project embankment, silt prevention function, and rainwater runoff collection and purification system to slow down the flow rate of rainwater into the river during rainstorms season. It is equipped with ecological rainwater facilities composed of concave green space and rainwater gardens. Combined with the vertical design of the site, the rainwater infiltration capacity is improved through organized confluence and transmission, Further, reducing the non-point source pollution caused by rainwater runoff and improving the ecological function of the city.
About Zhang Yingxuan
Zhang Yingxuan: founder of Funart Landscape Design, deputy chief engineer of Beilinyuan, expert judge of Jinpan awards. He received a bachelor’s degree in urban planning from Wuhan University and a master’s degree in architectural theory from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology.
Focusing on landscape design and management for more than 10 years, he has unique opinions and creativity on international and domestic landscape design. So far, he has led the team to complete hundreds of landscape design works, including Huizhou qianjiangyue, Guizhou Liupanshui Mingdong Lake, Heshan Yongchun water world, Hainan Hengtai and Hubei Qianjiang central city residence, municipal river in the west of Xinhai City, Shenzhen Xinhai City Phase I, Shenzhen CIMC CIMC, Shenzhen Xiyuan Shanyuan villa, Shantou Dongxia 100, Dongxu Hongji Shunde JINZI square, Dongxu Hongji Zhongshan Golden Age, etc. In addition to the unanimous praise of the clients, the achievements have also won Environmental Gold Award, Idea-King awards, Jinpan awards, and other awards.
While strengthening the organization and management of the company, Ms. Zhang also strengthened her continuous learning. In 2015, she won the glorious honor of one hundred outstanding design figures in China.
Design concept: break the original order and find a new harmony in the site. The natural curve is the result of the movement of force. The design should follow the natural force and seek the expression of boundary change in line with the attenuation or enhancement of force.