OUR PARK — REFLECTIONS AND CRITICISMS ON PERMANENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE EVENT LANDSCAPE

Abstract

As China continues to grow, all types of urban events and supporting facilities continue to occur. The landscape for short-term urban events are usually built as permanent interventions, and are often not well integrated with the rest of the urban environment after completion of the event. This type of landscape construction usually results in low performance and land waste.

Using the Beijing Garden Expo Park as an example, this paper reflects and criticizes the permanent construction and considers the full life-cycle reuse of the event landscape. We draw on a low-cost, low-maintenance, and multi-participatory model to encourage citizens’ participation in construction of the post-event landscape. Our design and research proposes a new operating model for other post-event landscapes.

Keywords

Event Landscape / Full Life-Cycle / Renewal / Operation Mode

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2016 Higher Education Press