The project is located outside the North Fifth Ring Road of Beijing, 600 meters east of Lishuiqiao Metro Station, with many residents in the surrounding area, while the nearest residence to the site of the project is only one road away, which can be said to be “the park downstairs”.

The project is a Linear Park, and due to low usage, the landscape contents are damaged which need to be renovated and improved. In terms of planting, because the current hierarchical collocation of the site is good, it just needs to add appropriate colored leaf vegetation to enrich the overall color, and add flower type plant groups along the road, to be close to visitors, and improve the quality.

The vaguest thing about the renovation project is what kind of action we are going to do, should we be innovative in every aspect, or should we focus on some areas and stop at where it should. The essential difference between renovation project and new project is that the new project starts from scratch and belongs to “founding”; while the renovation project is more like a relay race, which needs to preserve the original advantages and “continue” the memory of the site. “The park downstairs” is like a small river outside the yard when we were children, and our memories of catching fish are always there. And as designers, being able to make the site full of memories last as long as possible is a treasure for others, as well as a reward for ourselves.

In the first investigation of the current situation at the beginning of the design, what impressed us most was that 95% of the people in the park were concentrated in the basketball court area, while the basketball court area occupies only 1/20 of the whole park, which is a serious functional imbalance for urban parks. Therefore, the focus of our design is to increase the use of the rest areas, complement the missing functional landscapes, enable surrounding residents to enjoy real convenience benefits, and increase people’s happiness index.

▼公园鸟瞰图，bird-eye’s view of the park ©王维琦