Project Overview
Project details:
Located in the core business district of the prestigious New North Zone in Chongqing, “The Ring, Chongqing”Shopping Center is the first "urban natural community" built by HongKong Land Group, which truly integrates urban living and the beauty of nature in one space. The space uses "Tree Light Forest" to construct a vertical landscape spanning 7 floors and 42 meters high, introducing nearly 300 kinds of tropical rainforest plants, including three theme scenes of tree of life, suspended forest, waterfall of flowers and 12 interactive punch-card attractions. Through the mysterious and beautiful natural scenes, fantastic interactive experience to construct a rich and interesting forest environment space.
Organisation
Project Brief
O Park ("Tree Light Forest") is an indoor forest botanical garden that depicts a new business model in the future with creativity and ingenuity. In line with the magic multidimensional 3D mountain landscape of Chongqing, a three-dimensional fantasy forest is conceived as a whole with 6+1 (B1-L6) multidimentional passby space. Based on the principle of nature + science + interaction, the layered plant atmosphere is constructed, and the conditions are fully utilized to create a rich sense of experience and maximize the mutual integration with the commercial retail space. The three-dimensional bionic space combined with science and technology interaction, the catalyst of commerce and nature, and the integration of natural growth and free breathing of diverse organic life experience, to create a rich social place.
Project Innovation/Need
From the perspective of shaping the small terrain, a comprehensive consideration will be given to various aspects of rainforest vegetation, ecological environment, plant themes, interactive and participatory sites, and integration with business. Create a three-dimensional suspended commercial space hierarchy experience: from top to bottom, 7 suspended trees hang in the indoor sky. The 20m high flying waterfall, spanning multiple floors, adopts special water curtain, interactive and participatory night flying water curtain projection presents a fantastic effect. Three-dimensional botanical garden landscape, let people feel every angle of the wonderful and permeable green.
Design Challenge
Design challenge:
1. Plant migration: To build ideal tropical plants landscape, the project team began their work two years ago. They spent nine months to select much of the country's seedling, and cultivated them locally in Chongqing. Facing the large diameter and heavy weight (15 tons) of some plants, team resolve many restrictions to eventually transplanting to the scene.
2. Suspension construction of plants: suspension construction of suspended trees is a very difficult process, involving multi-professional mutual assistance. Each of the seven suspended trees needs to work at a high altitude. The spider man on the building dome and the workers on the ground work synchronously to determine the hanging point of the tree from multiple directions and angles.
Sustainability
Sustainable development:
The indoor three-dimensional vertical landscape introduces 300 kinds of tropical rainforest plants, among which the negative oxygen ions are about 1500 /cm³. The 20m high flying waterfall forms a complete organic ecosystem with the ground waterscape. The site also uses new environmentally friendly materials for ground paving, while retaining wall adopts soft tiles which are environmentally friendly.
Landscape Design
This award celebrates creativity and innovation in the use of practical, aesthetic, horticultural, and environmentally sustainability components, taking into account climate, site and orientation, site drainage and irrigation, human and vehicular access, furnishings and lighting.
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