DESIGN NAME: Wanda Mall
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Landscape
INSPIRATION: Lanzhou is a forestry city, with profound history and extensive culture. The design aims at combining theoretical architectural design methods with local heritage such as Silk Road, Yellow River, Loess Plateau, etc. It starts with Silk Road, and merges the city history, Yellow River, urban forest into the landscape designing. "Forest" is the keyword of the designing.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The hot spot will attract college students, young and middle-aged people with "Modem Forest". It inherits local history and culture, and introduces innovative design thoughts. It presents marvelous fusion, collision and coexistence of tradition and modernity. Wanda Mall Project launches a new era of the commercial property landscape design in Lanzhou, and it changes the appearance of New Town of Lanzhou as a benchmark in landscape designing.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: In order to successfully build a resilient landscape in a windy and sandy site,the project refers to a large number of case studies. Designers want to introduce drought-tolerant plant species that have been adapted to poor soil, poor drainage, and strong wind resistance on the high slopes of the loess into the site, mixed planting of native plants and introduced plant species.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in May 2019 in Lanzhou and finished in October 2022 in Lanzhou.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Compared with natural stone, artificial stone has more outstanding advantages like bright colors, high smoothness, uniform color, compressive wear resistance, good toughness, dense structure, strong and durable, light specific gravity, no water absorption, corrosion resistance and weathering, small color difference, no fading, radioactivity Low, no pan-alkali . All of these characteristics makes it become the most important type of decoration material in today's landscape decoration.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The project is located at the intersection of West Nan Binhe Xi Road and Yin'an Road, Anning District, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. The total area is about 227600 square meters, including 186300 square meters as earthscape area, within 98,000 square meters inside property line, 88300 square meters outside property line area, and 27800 square meters as roof landscape area.
TAGS: Landscape Design, Commercial Real Estate, Theme park, Natural, Modern, Oriental Elements, Silk Road, Yellow River, Forest
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: In this era of rapid development but lack of human care, contact with nature is essential for human well-being. The natural environment gives us inner peace and a moment of respite, at the same time, it also prompts us to think about how to protect its health and beauty. Designers deliberately introduced landscapes into commercial operations and theme parks to make contact with nature a part of people's daily experience.
CHALLENGE: Lanzhou is located in the northwestern part of China which has hot and dry climate. The planting strategy of the project is to extensively plant native trees and understory vegetation that can adapt to the climatic conditions of Lanzhou. In order to create an immersive, diversified landscape that requires only moderate maintenance, while meeting the sustainability of water resources.
ADDED DATE: 2021-02-21 12:50:06
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Xianglong Hu, Yunxiang Huang and Faxin Lin
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer FAM, Wanda Mall, 2020.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to FAM, 2020.
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