Jiaying-Li Nansen Park reconstruction landscape in Oslo

I remembered the day we visited a forest on the mountain in suburban district of Barcelona. I asked my partner why we visited here, he explained maybe we forest is very special and precious in barcelone. So I just walked in the forest and climbed the mountain for the whole morning. I study in Olso, it is familiar for North European designer to treat nature in the most “nature” way. it is seldom to visit a large public reconstruction project in Norway, but the forest landscape walking remind me to Nansen Park reconstruction landscape design in Oslo. 60 years ago, when the airport has not been in this expansion, Fornebu is a very beautiful and well-tended gardens. Airport expansion, after a variety of natural facilities are eradicated, the mound was bombed flat, low-lying land is filled in the bay and inlet blocked. The original landscape only airport runway peripheral leaving little residual. Therefore, the design of the park at the airport before the runway can not be changed before the garden between the formation of the contact.

Nansen Park is about 200,000 square meters, will provide the public with a fascinating activities gatherings, leisure locations, on three sides of it are adjacent to the the Oslo Gulf (OsloFjord). Open garden, the distant mountain contours give people a strong sense of calm, independent and open area will also try to integrate into the new garden. We hope that the park has a unique personality, and at the same time giving a simple and casual feel.

    Waters

    Park a new starting point for the construction of Terminal from the older airport control tower and the south tower Square building become an important park entrance. The water system from north to south extending throughout the park water system design are also against the background of the diversity between the linear and natural landscape, but also highlights the pond, trickling brook or a small waterfall. Waters at the beginning of a narrow ditch, a steel frame in the ditches, water flowing down through this ditch by a 1.5-meter-wide cement made waterway. Then, the water and from here flows into a larger pool, and finally into the center of the lake of 6000 square meters. Most of the water is crystal clear, and is then pumped back to the tower plaza. The Nansen Park surface water from the surrounding residential area and road areas, Park also built many open green depressions, these depressions water into the center of the lake. The increased ecological sand filters, mechanical filters and pumps to ensure the quality of the water.

    Ribbon promenade

    Holiday Plaza, and ribbon promenade located in the northwest of the center of the pool surface. The ribbon promenade by various material formed by the pressing method, reference of a the Fornebu of CambriumSilur unique geological features, and intimate contact with the lake through the wide granite steps down to the lake. Promenade next to the one made by Kebony / Wisorwood wood platform, the platform next to a bright cement road, the road next to a gravel-paved path, the path on either side of two rows of willow, the gravel road leading to the park outside of the grass.

    Holiday Plaza

    Place the ground by a large section of granite paved, the size of each section of 2.4x1.6 meters. Square south ground and slowly tilt into the lake. Lake has many artistic slate, interval period of water equipped with a nozzle so that water can flow to the inclined plane. The removable steel facilities can let the kids play on the lake.

    The square can perform a variety of repertoire, as well as a quiet lounge area. Square, next to a coffee shop, the cafe's walls and doors are made of glass. At the other end of the lake, we reserve the right section of the original Fornebu Mountain area of ​​this zone is the waves, in contrast with linear shape of the ribbon promenade. Here and other places to keep small hill, trying to save the original vegetation of this area.

    The outwardly extending seven road width varies, ranging from 30 meters to 100 meters, allows people to reach each green area. Different regions have different activities facilities; volleyball court with a rubber surface of the playground, large climbing net.

    State of the Environment

    The ecological status is the basis of the whole transformation process. Clean up contaminated land, re-use of asphalt and cement, compost nourishes the land, and the formation of a new soil cultivated plants. A lot of dirt and rock were moved to the the Fornebu area, the original airport plains transformed into garden zone with layering and different heights. All maintenance and renovation in the park are based on ecological principles and Park will soon be put into use.

    The project has special significance for Norway, and we are looking forward to want to know the adjacent housing market is allowed to join these facilities, this park near the new residents and park users will be able to participate in this beautiful park.

Jiaying Li-Beijing’s Historic Qianmen Neighborhood rebuild

Recently, we visited some reconstruction projects in this course. It is very pity I don’t understand Spanish, so I couldn’t know what kind of attitude does Spanish government hold when a new t neighborhood reconstruction project start? How the construction funds collected, what’s kind of role or part as a Spanish architect in the whole complex process. I just evaluate everything by my view as a deaf person; it is like the movie lost in Tokyo. The way Spanish architects treat material and the relationship with old building, existing region is very inspiration. Especially, when I visit some reconstruction buildings for public libraries and kindergarten, In China, I look forward we could have more reconstruction buildings for public service for daily life rather than commercial shopping center and art show. Sometimes I always ask myself, how to treat my attitude as a designer. Right now I will pay more attention on the whole processing (be controlled or affected by client and government, be controlled or affected with existing city life) happened with a new building or new reconstruction rather than design or building object itself. I used to participate Qianmen Street and East Area Protection reconstruction design as an architect in a Chinese design company. Qianmen, which means "front gate" in Chinese, is one of the top destinations for tourists in the capital.

Sitting on the south side of Tiananmen Square, it was once an important commercial area just outside the main city walls, selling everything from Chinese medicine to bolts of silk.

It was a very important project at that time before Olympic game, so the government paid more attention on it, as designer what we could do is play in the intensive rule. We need to preserved new façade for the old architectural styles on the main street,With its traditional shop fronts, it looks like it did 100 years ago.We tried to analysis the existing scale in Hutong and courtyard, and combination new function inside; we also used some abandoned old bricks for new façade design. But after rebuild this neighborhood, I asked myself if it is better or worse? It is very interesting to see architect façade drawings transfer into bounding walls in the construction field.

In 2008, I walked along the "modesty" wall surrounding the ruins of Qianmen Avenue and hutong. The rebuilding of Qianmen has required thousands of people to move and dozens of businesses to close. There are still a few poor die-hards who refuse to move. They couldn’t afford money to move and they lingered about the old neighborhood in this region. I don’t know if there are other better ways to treated urban rebuild and expanding.

Jiaying li-798 Art Zone in Beijing

The facory reconstruction region-can ricart recalls me to introduce 798 Art Zone in Beijing. 798 Art Zone is also a thriving artistic community, among 50-year old decommissioned military factory buildings of unique architectural style. It is often compared with New York'sGreenwich Village or SoHo.

The Dashanzi factory complex began as an extension of the "Socialist Unification Plan" of military-industrial cooperation between the Soviet Union and the newly formed People's Republic of China. By 1951, 156 "joint factory" projects had been realized under that agreement, part of the Chinese government's first Five-Year Plan. However the People's Liberation Army still had a dire need of modern electronic components, which were produced in only two of the joint factories. The Russians were unwilling to undertake an additional project at the time, and suggested that the Chinese turn to East Germany from which much of the Soviet Union's electronics equipment was imported. So at the request of then-Premier Zhou Enlai, scientists and engineers joined the first Chinese trade delegation to East Germany in 1951, visiting a dozen factories. The project was greenlighted in early 1952 and a Chinese preparatory group was sent to East Berlin to prepare design plans. This project, which was to be the largest by East Germany in China, was then informally known as Project # 157.

The architectural plans were left to the Germans, who chose a functional Bauhaus-influenced design over the more ornamental Soviet style, triggering the first of many disputes between the German and Russian consultants on the project. The plans, where form follows function, called for large indoor spaces designed to let the maximum amount of natural light into the workplace. Arch-supported sections of the ceiling would curve upwards then fall diagonally along the high slanted banks or windows; this pattern would be repeated several times in the larger rooms, giving the roof its characteristic sawtooth-like appearance. Despite Beijing's northern location, the windows were all to face north because the light from that direction would cast fewer shadows.

The chosen location was a 640,000 square metres area in Dashanzi, then a low-lying patch of farmland northeast of Beijing. The complex was to occupy 500,000 square metres, 370,000 of which were allocated to living quarters. It was officially named Joint Factory 718, following the Chinese government's method of naming military factories starting with the number 7. Fully funded by the Chinese side, the initial budget was enormous for the times: 9 million rubles or approximately 140 million RMB (US $ 17 million) at today's rates; actual costs were 147 million RMB.

Jiaying Li-Chao Tian Men Urban design in Chongqing

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.

my city Chongqing

Even I live and work in Beijing for very long time, but when somebody ask  me to introduce the most interesting, charming and magical city in China, firstly I will recommend Chongqing, which is the mountain and spicy food city in South west of China.

Chongqing was temporarily the capital of the Republic of China during World War 2, after Nanjing was occupied by the Japanese. The capital was subsequently relocated back to Nanjing after the Japanese surrendered in 1945.

Neighbouring provinces: Hubei (east), Hunan (east), Guizhou (south), Sichuan (west), Shaanxi (north)

Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, and surrounded by small green capped mountains, Chongqing City is intersected by the Jialing River and the upper reaches of the Yangtze. It contains the Daba Shan in the north, Wu Shan in the east, Wuling Shan in the southeast, and Dalou Mountain to the south. Chongqing is notorious for its hot and humid weather. The air quality in the warmer months as well as the winter can be challenging to people with respiratory problems due to massive amounts of smog. Chongqing has been ranked by the World Bank as one of the most polluted cities in the world.

You could find more story about this city from the movie STILL LIFE and

Crazy Stone.

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Hot Pot (huǒguō, lit.: firepot) is one of Chongqing's claims to fame. In cities across China, one can find hot pot restaurants, but only Chongqing people can really stand a real hot pot, so if you want authenticity, get it while you can in Chongqing.

When ordering hot pot you have a a choice between three kinds. First, the spicy version called red soup (hong tang). Then there is one without any spices. This is basically a bone soup, and it is tasty. To get this, simply ask for "yuan wei" or tell them "wo bu yao la" which means "I don't want the spicy stuff!" Finally there is a compromise with Yuan Yang Hot Pot (Yuan Yang Huo Guo), which is basically a pot split down the middle with the spicy stuff on one side and the mild on the other.

For those who like spicy but do not like it too spicy, it is possible to order red soup without the jolt (wei la hong tang). It is a nice mild experience.

For those who can not speak Chinese, it would be best to grab a Chinese friend to take you, though be warned, you will have to put up with a lot of drinking, you will be forced to smoke more than you normally would, and some of the things they go slipping into the pot might not be your cup of tea. You will also have to be aware that you will be fed with a lot of dishes from your Chinese friends because they like to see your bowl is full of food so you might feel a little uncomfortable by being fed like a child but that is the way Chinese show their concern and enthusiastic to their friends especially when eating hot pot.

The Dazu Rock Carvings, in Dazu county, are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings, dating back as far as the 7th century A.D., depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs. Listed as a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site, the Dazu Rock Carvings are made up of 75 protected sites containing some 50,000 statues, with over 100,000 Chinese characters forming inscriptions and epigraphs.

The Three Natural Bridges and Furong Cave in Wulong Karst National Geology Park, Wulong County are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the South China Karst.

Ciqikou is a 1000-year-old town in the Shapingba District of Chongqing. It is also known as Little Chongqing. The town, located next to the lower reaches of the Jialing River, was at one time an important source of chinawares and used to be a busy commercial dock during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.