WENZHOU OUJIANG ESTUARY NEW URBAN DISTRICT URBAN DESIGN

Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Summer 2016

Turenscape Internship Project

Coastal land reclamation

Restoration

Teammates: Jian zhang,Yuan Xue,Xing Ming

*Only Personal works Include

The sites is located at estuary of China East Sea, it is a artificial land built from coastal land reclamation. The site is the first phase of the Wenzhou Ou River New Urban District Development and is planed to serve as communication & technology district, also included residential, commercial, recreational and educational function. The city of Wenzhou hope the new district can bring Wenzhounese back to their hometown, slow down the brain drain and attract investors and visitor come and stay.

Due to both Wenzhou's cultural and geographical remoteness and its lack of natural resources (land, minerals, etc.), the Chinese central government has left the people of Wenzhou relatively autonomous. Away from the center of the political and economic stage, its people are more independent, self-reliant, and generally more business and family oriented.

Original City Planning lack of focus

Inflexible city grid, planning was base on vehicle use, lack of Pedestrians and bike circulation and facilities

Lack of basic amenities and recreaction facilities

Loss connection with Wenzhou's local history and culture

Coastal Habitat loss due to land reclamation.

Flat topography due to land reclamation.

Straight seawall, lack of natural feature and water resiliency.

Street design was cluttered, loss city identity .

24km²

High-Tech Residential + Education

Straight River bank, lack of biodiversity.

The city itself are disconnected due to the irrational landuse planning.

Connect The City

STRATEGIES FOR VIBRANT MIXED-USE COMMUNITY

After

Link the 3 Green Spaces and Parks in the center, create a Green Core and focus point for the city.

Introduce Gardens, urban farmings into the city ,to maximise the resilience of the eco-system through urban landscape. Blur the boundary of city and green space, create strong ecological connection, link spaces by pedestrian and bike-friendly transportation system. Create poly-centric cities, create public space for gathering, recreation, education, Comercial and bussiness use, makes The city space more compact and diverse.

Step

Encourage new building design use bottom overhead multistory construction, give back the land to public green space.

Step1. Extend river and green space toward inside of the city.

Mix-Use Community More compact city space, can meet different people's need and create more gathering space for different activities.

Before Meandered Introduce Wetland

Plants and

Ecological Restoration

Water Ecology Corridor

The ecosystems are rebuild mainly through enhance the aquatic ecosystem eco-corridors that reintroducing wetland and local Riparian plants into the engineering water system, soften the stream bank, provide habitat for native wildlife while enhance the water resilient to the city.

Parks and Publick Green Space

Topography Strategies

Parks and green space are located everywhere in the city within 10 mins walkable distance. Sizes and functionality are varied depending on the context. Mainly serve as cultural and natural spaces of the town.

North Seawall Shoreline Wetland

Located at the urban ecosystem and coastal ecosystem, a great place to highlight the edge effect of the ecology. Mainly form by coastal wetland, mangrove forest and halophytes. Excellent habitat for the local/ migrating birds and very-shallow water organisms.

Street Green Space

Mainly enhancing the stormwater management function by locating biorientation basin and rain gardens along the street, on the other hand, street trees/planting provide shading for the pedestrian and lower the ground temperature of the ground.

South Seawall Windbreak

The south seawall is facing the challenging of a typhoon, plants serving as a windbreak for the city.

Water Ecology Corridor

Parks and Publick Green Space

North Seawall Shoreline Wetland

Street Green Space

South Seawall Windbreak

SCENERY COLLAGE-CITY SCROLLS PAINTING THEMES

Diversed

Northern Seawall Ecological + Local Culture Corridor

Keywords: Bird-Watching, Productive Landscape, Fisher Folk Culture, Migratory Birds, Saltmarsh, Habitat Reclamation.

Central Urban Waterfront Social+Art+Recreation Corridor

Keywords: Public Modern Art Installation,Theater, Market, Restaurant, City Life.

Before

Before：Northern Seawall

Southern Seawall Community+Fitness+Culture+Ecological Corridor

Keywords: Local Art Installation+Outdoor Fitness, Fishing, Tidal landscape

Option#2: Art Platform

After

Terrace blend with vegetation resting/fishing spot

Option#1: Terrace boardwalk

Option#3: Boardwald

The three waterfront spaces are design to showcase different perspectives of Wenzhou city and the Ou River urabn district. We inspired by the Chinese Scroll Painting and the ancient local painting s" Strange Fish", see the three waterfront space as three beautiful scroll paintings.Three corridors illustrate the unique local culture and history, and the present urban life, the future prospects of the new urban district.