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Interactions

Styling

Performance

Interactive Park

author(s):Wu Jingwen, Guangkai Liang

Summary

Conceptualize the Context: The character of the RDM campus is a really desolation place without trees and flowers, and most of the buildings here are industrial constructions. It's far from the city center and the crowd. The site of our project is a little bit secluded compared with the others'. Our idea stems from these idiosyncrasy and constraints, and developes according to them. Therefore, we have idea of a park--an extension and improvement of the existing industrial buildings, and a place people can acquire a moment of peace and joy.

What a interactive park should look like? Nowadays, park should not be treated as a field of grass and flowers, or a product from production line, but a interaction full of vitality and fun, a place where people would like to stay. The functions of the park can be uncertain and variable. The most important thing for an interactive park is people's participation. People can bring fun to the park while the park provide an enjoyable place for people. In order to have these variable spaces, we began our study with units and the ways of combining them. The undulating section of the park is to create these various volumes for different activities as well as in accordance with the shape of the existing buildings. The the combination, the park 'grows' from the existing land, and stretches out to acquire nice views of the city skylines.

Connections: As we mentioned before, people's participation is pretty essential to the development of the park. Therefore, this interactive park ,which is a little bit isolated compared with other projects, should have some good connections with the other projects. First of all, the floating theater, which is just next to the park, can sometimes bring a stream of people while the park is a buffering zone and a square for the audience. Secondly, as a member of the landscape, the interactive park obligated to join the landscape connection. So, our project(a horizontal one) connects to the digital garden(a vertical one). Lastly, the 'Islands' and transport hub can deliver steady stream of visitors to the park.