The first
day class we visited the Montjuic Park, the professor introduced how the local
geography and history affect the territory form of Montjuic. I want to introduce
a little bit about Chao Tian Men CBD urban design in Chongqing.
Chaotianmen
is located at the junction of the Yangtze River and Jialing River, Chongqing
City, lapel with two rivers, broad river, vying; barriers on three sides, the
terrain on both sides gradually downward sloping line stone steps along the
mountain and on, the momentum is extremely majestic. Chaotianmen 314 BC, Qin
the Berkshire Hathaway city built after Zhang Yi perish Pakistan built. The
early Ming Dai Ding expansion Chongqing Old City, according to the the Jiugong
gossip of the number 17 made the gates, the largest city gate that
Chaotianmen. The door Uehara books four characters: "Gu Yu Xiongguan.
Chaotianmen, the officer then emperor sacred place for the history, said the
ancient emperor emperor therefore the name.
In 1927,
Chongqing, a city in order to expand the size of the cities, and solve the
problem of narrow streets and traffic congestion, Chongqing Modern municipal
building, its content expansion pier and widen the road, the old building,
including walls, including the gatehouse and Housingbatch removed, the original
urban pattern change accelerates, the Chaotianmen its traffic on the importance
of the first to become a large dismantling under construction, the first one
was demolished the gates.
Henceforth,
there are at least 550 years of history, a symbol of the ancient city of
Chongqing --- Chaotianmen tower disappeared from the earth, and even the gates
did not leave a photo.
The government hold a big international
competition in China, which is located within the land of 11.7 hectares in the
south of Chaotianmen Square, Yuzhong District, Chongqing. The land is
about 440m long from south to north and about 530m wide
from east to west. The lowest elevation is about 180m, and the highest is
about 228m, with the maximum elevation difference of about 48m. The
land is connected with Chaotianmen Square and Chongqing Planning
Exhibition Gallery in the north. Its east-west side about 350m in
length is beside the river, respectively opposite Nanbin Road and Jiangbei Town.
In the south, it is adjacent to Donghewan, Chongqing Grain Reserve and Transportation
Company, No. 9 Business Hotel, Chongqing Sugar & Liquor Co., Golden Ocean
Market, KeiLeung Mansion, and Haike Yingzhou. Along the east-west
direction of the site beside the river, the project land is connected to Changbin
Road, Jiabin Road and Chaoqian Road in the south, to form
the main channel to the project location from the lower urban area. In the
central section of the south, the project land is connected to Xinhua Road and Shaanxi
Road, to form the main channel to the project location from the upper urban
area. They want to create Positioned as the image symbol and emblem of Chongqing,
the project embodies “Window of Chongqing, Door of West China” and represents
the construction model of Chongqing as the source of Yangtze
River economy and inland open center to show the openness and sailing
attitude. Based on the existing urban tissue and landscape structure of Yuzhong Peninsula.
To me, this proposal is waste
of taxpayers' money, to do a face-saving projects. They should use the construction funds
in a meaningful way.
