Shaheyuan Park is situated on the former site of the Southwest Building Materials City. The design incorporates numerous remnants of railway tracks and wooden storage factories as key elements. Surrounded by the Fu River and Sha River, the park forms an island-like shape encircled by water, featuring excellent water quality and lush vegetation. Located within the Jinjiang Greenway Planning Belt, the creation of Shaheyuan Park establishes a new, continuous urban green corridor.
The design team, respecting the cultural heritage and municipal planning goals, has crafted a journey inspired by wood that caters to various stages of life and outdoor activities for all age groups. The park integrates community cultural events, site-specific art, ecological health education, and vibrant waterfront living. Its comprehensive design aims to create a dynamic park system rich in functionality, ecological respect, and cultural preservation.
Jinjiang Heart, Greenway Station
Shaheyuan Park serves as the heart of Jinjiang, acting as the central stage for waterfront life in the northern part of the city. It is also the core station of the northern slow travel system, forming the centerpiece of the Jinjiang Green Corridor.
Aligned with Chengdu’s vision to accelerate the development of an ecologically sustainable park city that harmonizes people, urban life, environment, and industry, Shaheyuan Park fills gaps in the current green corridor network. It connects the entire planning area’s slow traffic system and stands as the core station of the Jinjiang Greenway.
The project also follows the planning principles of “Green Full Rongcheng, Flower Heavy and Golden Officials, Water Runtian Prefecture”, emphasizing accessibility, public participation, and scenic landscape design.
Art of Life, Venue Imprint
The site of Shaheyuan Park was historically a water transportation hub in Chengdu. During the 1950s, thousands of pieces of driftwood floated into the city daily, collected and stored at the Chengdu Storage Mill on the Jiulidi River. The area surrounding the north gate evolved into Chengdu’s largest wood distribution and processing center.
With wood culture as the central theme, the design honors the environment and reflects on history by highlighting unique scenes such as Shuimu Huanian, Mupai Shuiyi, Hualin Manjing, Yuntingdu Bridge, and Shuishan Changdi. These elements showcase the park’s natural beauty year-round, revive the site’s cultural memory, and contribute to Chengdu’s vision of a livable waterfront corridor with clear waters and vibrant life.
One Ring and Three Lines: Ecological Sustainability
Drawing on the legacy of the timber factory, the park promotes sustainable development through ecology, fosters community interaction, and creates a healthy, vibrant urban space that connects people, nature, and community. The park is designed with a “one ring, three lines” concept: a vitality ring, a memory line, a vitality line, and a green line.
The landscape design creates a dialogue between open water surfaces and expansive lawns, utilizing the natural terrain to shape a dynamic space with varied openness and enclosure. This approach offers a playful and continuous spatial experience while maintaining clear sightlines.
The park features diverse flower forests, including cherry blossom, ginkgo, crabapple, and water fir groves. The design preserves original trees and adds large, mature specimens at key locations to enrich the forest canopy.
Reeds and aquatic plants are carefully chosen to evoke a sense of nostalgia and add poetic ambiance to the environment.
Utilizing ecological grass ditches, rain gardens, wetlands, and natural (BIM learning) streams, the park is designed to be a fully self-cleaning, eco-friendly lake system, serving as a model for sponge city initiatives.
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Project Information
Project Name: Shaheyuan Park
Project Area: 100,000 square meters
Owner: China Electric Power Construction Group Co., Ltd
Design (BIM) Teams: AECOM (conceptual design), Auspicious Landscape (conceptual deepening and construction drawing design)
Australian Expo Team: He Meilin, Luo Xiaobo, Wu Xiating, Zhang Yuling, Wang Jianfeng
Construction Unit: China Water Resources and Hydropower Tenth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd
Location: No. 88 Jiulidi North Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
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