Location: Beijing, China.

Architect: Cobblestone Design Canada,Shanghai office.

The Daxing Ecological Civilization Education Park is a park that was born out of the urban-rural junction area, where urban and green regeneration have been becoming a key strategy. The park is designed like a slowly unfolding hand roll, with four related gardens arranged from west to east according to narrative logic. The grey building group in Five Ring Park has a complete spatial form, meaning symbol or intimation, as well as the overall material characteristics to form a series of ‘eventful’ places and actively encourage visitors to participate in ‘events’ and experiences. The park uses a large number of demolition waste materials brick blocks, concrete, broken aggregate recycling, used as landscape low walls, sculpture, drainage ditches and cushions, prefabricated trash cans, pavement, stone Gabion wall filling materials. The park also reshapes the terrain changes plant communities and increases plant habitats. Several dry streams make use of the depression of the original site to create a natural ecological scene of rainy season water storage and dry season greenstone. The park is highly involved in the narration of the place, with the narrative rhetoric made up of the narrative content and the formal medium of the narrative content is attempted in a more open and abstract way.

Photo credit: Hu Yijie/COBBLESTONE.