Project Name: Landscape Enhancement Planning and Design for the Waterfront Public Space in Shibei District, Qingdao
Design Period:2021–2022
Project Scope: Core design area of 254 hectares, research and planning area of 14 square kilometers
The project spans from the Zhangcun River section of Heilongjiang Middle Road in the north to the Wenzhou Road section of Haibo River in the south, covering the waterfront public areas along Licun River, Haibo River, and the eastern shore of Jiaozhou Bay, with a total waterfront length of approximately 25 kilometers.
Eight Great Passes in the South, Eight Scenic Gardens in the North
The waterfront public space will feature the "Eight Scenic Gardens," resembling a string of emerald necklaces along the eastern shore of Jiaozhou Bay. The area will be transformed into:
- An ecological restoration-based waterfront greenbelt
- A cultural experience belt rooted in history
- An urban vitality belt characterized by internationally inspired waterfront spatial elements
Six Forces Converge to Revitalize the Waterfront
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Three Trails Connected
The integration of "three trails" along the waterfront is a crucial foundation for creating a "high-quality public space." The interconnected network of "walking paths, cycling lanes, and jogging tracks" links all waterfront public spaces.
Diverse Revetment Designs
Licun River Section
Licun River primarily features ecological revetments, aiming to enhance the quality of life for surrounding residential areas with a tranquil, harmonious, and pure leisure-themed style.
Coastal Zone and Haibo River Section
The coastal zone and Haibo River adopt artificial revetments to connect urban and water elements, meeting citizens' desire for waterfront interaction and fostering dialogue between people and space.
Vibrant Paving Designs
The 25-kilometer coastal zone borders the vast sea on one side and clusters of new industries and residential functions on the other. Based on functional characteristics, the coastline is divided into three thematic styles:
- Ecological Wetland Section: Prioritizing natural ecology, using materials like untreated timber and preservative-treated wood paving to reflect the ecological theme.
- Coastal Landscape Section: An open, modern, and international style that enhances site interest, creating distinctive coastal paving landscapes.
- Urban Park Section: A fashionable, humanistic, and vibrant style, offering stylis and user-friendly paving designs to serve citizens best.
Diverse Biological Communities
- Ecological Wetland Section: Dominated by wetland plants, enhancing the living quality of nearby residents with a serene, harmonious, and pure coastal environment focused on leisure and wellness. Plantings include flowering shrubs along pathways.
- Coastal Landscape Section: Featuring colorful foliage and ornamental plants, catering to high-end coastal office and hotel districts, linking major urban green corridors to create a dynamic urban rhythm.
- Urban Park Section: Centered on shade-providing trees, emphasizing a humanistic waterfront theme, making waterfront experiences a spiritual hallmark of the new era. Designs include terraced landscape plants, green mounds, and zigzag grassy slopes, with aesthetically pleasing trees as focal points.
Comprehensive Amenities
Within appropriate service radii, facilities such as rest stations and leisure corridors have been installed to enhance the quality of waterfront public services. Supporting amenities like parking and municipal services are also provided.
Cultural Spaces
The design incorporates culturally distinctive and smart landscape furniture and facilities, including urban furniture and signage systems.
Through the development of waterfront public spaces, the 25-kilometer coastline has been integrated and comprehensively upgraded, enriching its functionality. Citizens now enjoy a pleasant coastal public space while the project fosters industrial agglomeration along the waterfront, transforming Shibei—once the "back bay"—into a "front bay." The goal is to create an internationally renowned urban waterfront public open space.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." We look forward to seeing this area by Jiaozhou Bay, which carries a century of urban development memories, become a new platform for international cooperation, a hub for openness, and a model for innovation.
Construction Units: Qingdao Guoling, Shibei Construction Investment, Shibei Urban Development
Design Units: Shanghai urbanDATA, Qingdao Beiyang