Xiong'an Vanke Rain Garden Block | 2016-2017 

Xiong'an, China 
Architects: U.P. Space (Beijing) Landscape Architecture Design Consultants Co., Ltd.
Client: China Vanke Co., Ltd. 

The project is located on the south side of the Xiong’an Vanke Green Research and Development Center. It focuses on integrating the low-impact development concept into a 2,000-square-meter space. Meanwhile, it also establishes a sustainable science and technology education features. Moreover, the project creates a new ethos, “the boulevard garden” which combines people's livelihood, social and cultural functions.

It includes four functional elements: compound rainwater garden, ecological technology product application area, flower environment balcony experiment field, and colour terrace garden. This project presents three high-lights systems, eco-oriented, behaviour orientation and cultural orientation.

Eco-oriented: The goal is to manage with a small amount of high-frequency storm-water management from organizing, absorbing, controlling storm-water runoff on the roof. Utilizing the abandoned initial stage as a visible rain trails, and using terraces and gravel stagnation. Improving sinking gardens water storage ability through combining the ecological links such as surplus, excess platooning, and other ecological links as a whole. Through the science research, this design will control 85% of storm-water management rate, which is totally amount of 47.41 cubic meters of runoff remaining through the landscape approach. During the project construction, we claim low input and low maintenance. Among of materials are recyclable or self-updating, such as prefabricated PC bricks, recycled steel plate, and steel grille etc. This was the first time in Xiong'an New District to build a core ecological project that can be emphasis the idea of sponge city. Meanwhile, the functions of the people's livelihood have been organically integrated on this sustainable basis.

Behaviour orientation: the natural space is touched by us to present a multi-layer function proprietary sustainable information of the situation, emphasizing care, children and natural links nature, such as reading, tea chat, video, touch, two-dimensional code.

Cultural orientation: Water in Chinese culture represents a sense of affection and wealth interpretation. At the same time, it uses “less is more” metaphor meanings - triple power system - visual rainwater path under natural conditions and fun circulating water scene. Also to set the control effect of rainy, sunny, cold days. Let the public directly feel the sustainable mode of work. 0.8 square small-capacity water cycle, so that it is convenient to enjoy water, meanwhile reduce the consumption of resources.

This project redefines a sustainable landscape with futuristic urban implication and rich emotions Eventually, it will achieve the idea of people experience the sustainable landscape within themes and scenes.