Introduction
China Construction Design Group has designed a farm park within a focus on integrating historical resources with contemporary uses to commemorate several generations of effort to combat desertification.
"The once-fertile grasslands of Inner Mongolia in China have suffered from desertification caused by overgrazing, logging, expanding farms, population pressure, wind, and drought. In the past 20 years, approximately three million acres of desert have been rehabilitated through local and national efforts, which are celebrated in this educational park and observation platform in the middle of a yellowhorn farm. The designers bridge the past and the future by using local materials, plants, and construction methods to create simple, beautiful structures and viewing platforms that frame the reborn landscapes, and which use augmented reality to tell the remarkable story of transformation."
- 2019 Awards Jury
Reason to Be Selected
The yellohorn farm park provides ecological, recreational, educational, and economic benefit to the local area, by creating a place of mixing historical commemoration and functional requirements for people.
Highlights:
Eco-friendly Construction and Landscaping
Multi-functional Use
Real and Virtual Interaction
Details
China. Inner Mongolia is China’s third largest province, where was over-grazing, logging, expanding farms, population pressure, wind, and drought have all turned this once-fertile grassland into sandy a plain. In the past 20 years, this place has transformed from desert to flourishing farm through enormous local and national effort.
The whole park consists of three semi-open pavilions, one full-open viewing platform, landscape walls, historical or memorial spots, amenities, and a parking lot on the eastside. The current functions of the landscape structure include memorial, recreation, education, photography, nature watching, resting, and village events.
Texture of the park reflects the design concept of the Yellowhorn tree and leaf structure, which is a native species that thrives in harsh desert climates, stabilizes soil, retains moisture, and provides oil-rich seeds. The team has built farmlands and renewable energy facilities for supplying renewable energy for both farmlands and local villages. The design team used Augmented reality technology to create a series of chronological digital scenes, telling stories that are of great significance in the process of desertification control. Landscape planting design selected native drought-tolerant species (sea-buckthorn, miscanthus, sweetvetch, astragalus mongolicum, and yellowhorn) are planted around the landscape architecture.
Conclusions
This park is a public space completed by the landscape team in collaboration with local governments, communities, villagers, farm employees, and scientists from agriculture, geology, ecology, and humanities,which bring many benefits to the local area, including ecology, leisure, education and economy.
FULL STORY:
https://www.gooood.cn/2019-asla-general-design-award-of-honor-yellowhorn-farm-park-battling-the-threat-of-desertification-by-china-construction-design-group.htm
https://www.asla.org/2019awards/638311-Yellowhorn_Farm_Park_Battling_The_Threat.html
