Site Transform: my first built work in China

The site was very fun to work with.

It is exciting because it is my first time to do contours and land form in china- you might know that land form is not very popular in landscape practice in China. But when I first saw the site I thought it must have reshaped/Olmsted land form,

As you might also know, information in China is limited! So we did not know much about the geology and soil, but in other locations around the river I noticed lots of river stones- and i thought we must have a "rock" edge to the water in this park.
It took some time to convince the client that this is the kind of land form that we should get, and the edge we should have. As we started digging to shape the land we hit a stone layer just 2 meters below- We were very happy, That the land is rewarding us with such a treasure. The developer used the stones all over the development. Now the rest of the river front development (about 4km) is getting built the same way because the planning department appreciated our site and our project,

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A visit to 2005 thoughts on landscape city design

Knowledge Park and Nobel Square; A Nordic Window on Europe in Chengdu

A waterfront public park, linking an academic community (Copenhagen Business School) to the East, and Residential Community to the West. Part of the Nordic Knowledge City in Chengdu, Western China.
Nobel Square represents five venues of the world known prize, by five different rooms and paths within the square. The linking (main) pathway represents the peace path. The peace path- the larger image in the renderings) points to a Nobel statue that sits at the end of a reflecting pool at the campus green (North East Corner of the site). The peace path is part of the Knowledge bridge that links the two sides of the river.

Designers read the world...form an image...and design a space. Our designs forge the future of many places in the world; its reality and its new image

Objectifying the freedom Subject

La...La...La...who is the other, and who is the center? City and open space.

The purpose of the design of open space exceeds the fulfillment of aesthetics and proportion.
In designing an open space, designers make critical decisions on behalf of many others; kids and adults, man and women, socialists and elitists, affluent and poor, socialists and socialists and supremacists, intellects and rulers...people of all colors,
In designing an open space, designers are promoting a cultural notion; by providing a physical sharing medium for people to exchange their daily experience of life moments.

An open space can then be seen as one way of shaping societies behavior, and designers are, then, as promoters of a specific cultural belief.

The question is then does not stop at "how" is an open space will "look" like, but rather "what" would an open space "promote" in a society?
In order to answer that question, our obsessions, as designers, with object physicality and modeling ability should not be our first priority.
Our first priority then becomes PEOPLE not the space!

We deal with a polemic, intertwined, network of relationships...
On one level it is the internal network of relations between people of one location..their own space, resources, and the way they practice their freedom...
On another level, we draw an image on behalf of that society, in designing its "public" space...or "public image" that will be perceived by other societies...