LYCHEE PARK
Location: Shenzhen, China
Collaboration: TALLER,LOLA
Scale: 29 ha
Client: Shenzhen OCT
Awards: First prize
Lychee park is a great park, it has a beautiful lake, trees and spaces, therefore, it’s functionally perfect and full of population of all ages, an aspect that makes it very popular in Shenzhen. However, the continuous dense growing of city in the park surroundings will make it under-equipped for the future demands of program and citizens.Further improvement of the park needs to prepare it for the future, while preserving the existing qualities and highlight them as park identity, to reach that goal, we propose a densification strategy, in which the future pressure on Lychee Park will be divided according to zoning: some parts will remain quiet and some other will become more active and urban. Next to that our proposal uses the improvement of the park to improve its ecology, its coherence in materials and its connections with the city through development of 4 urban areas: The quiet traditional lakes, the dense central lake, the active lychee meadows and the park border.
LYCHEE PARK
Location: Shenzhen, China
Collaboration: TALLER,LOLA
Scale: 29 ha
Client: Shenzhen OCT
Awards: First prize
Lychee park is a great park, it has a beautiful lake, trees and spaces, therefore, it’s functionally perfect and full of population of all ages, an aspect that makes it very popular in Shenzhen. However, the continuous dense growing of city in the park surroundings will make it under-equipped for the future demands of program and citizens.Further improvement of the park needs to prepare it for the future, while preserving the existing qualities and highlight them as park identity, to reach that goal, we propose a densification strategy, in which the future pressure on Lychee Park will be divided according to zoning: some parts will remain quiet and some other will become more active and urban. Next to that our proposal uses the improvement of the park to improve its ecology, its coherence in materials and its connections with the city through development of 4 urban areas: The quiet traditional lakes, the dense central lake, the active lychee meadows and the park border.