Nanyuan Airport 03

Location: Beijing, China

Area: 232 ha

Institution: Studio Alpha, academic Instructor: Ouyang Mengying

Cooperation with Zhichao Wang, Yadan Mo

Role in the team: design stategy, modeling, presentations and drawings. Period: 09.2021—10.2021

Beijing has been the capital of China since the Yuan Dynasty, and the centralized power represented by dozens of emperors has deeply influenced the layout of the city. As the end of the city's central axis, Nanyuan has changed and evolved over the past 800 years, changing from a royal park to a military airport and then a civilian airport since the end of the Qing Dynasty. As Beijing continues to develop, Nanyuan Airport has been unable to keep up with its pace. As a result, Daxing Airport was built and Nanyuan Airport was abandoned as a wasteland, becoming a huge partition in the city.

Nanyuan Airport which belongs to the government are supposed to be shared by ci tizens. This principle gives birth to the idea: repatch and renovate existing construct ions memorial spaces and insert 3 parks with different themes to enhance the conne ction around the neighborhood. This design will provide citizens with public spaces full of historical significance.

Background

In 1910, Nanyuan Airport was completed and put into use. This airport is located in Fengtai District, 15 kilometers away from the city center. Furthermore, the airport is in the axis of Beijing, facing to the Forbidden City.

However, because of the relocation of the airport, moving to Daxing District, it is now abandoned and overgrown with weeds. Our plan will makes the dead place alive again.