Quzhou Garden 258 Park Ⅱ

Zhejiang | 100,000 sqm | 2015

Gardem 258, formerly as light industrial textile plant in the 1980s, is located in the center of geographic and economic of western Quzhou. The design aims to preserve and reform the old factory and build s an innovative, sustainable employment base, garden-like work and life style.
The original architectural style is Bauhaus; the overall structure is still in its integrity and its facade lines, and proportions are still harmonious and unified with its unique aesthetic feelings. With the design idea of replacement and filling, we moderately open some of the huge closed factories and add new buildings as public art spaces, step by step adding and reforming from the inside to out. We have no intention to define clear boundary but try to build a dynamic, interactive, flexible framework, in order to make its own constantly adapt to new needs of the city.
The planning aims at creating a low carbon ecological park with high-efficient linkage, to form “one axis, one ring, four groups and two points ", "one axis" is the north-south central axis; "one ring" is the green landscape ring; "four zones" are e-businees office group, the cultural creativity and information software group, comprehensive service group and the park green space group; the "two points" are the south and the north entrances.
Themed in New Pass & New Future, reproduce cotton culture, add the new feelings of the city and combine history and modern, creating the center of Quzhou Smart City. Use internet innovation and cultural creativity R&D as the core, meanwhile, keep the site’s memory, and create an energetic open city park and new e-commerce industrial park. The design fully refines the cotton as the language and the spindles and threads formerly used in the cotton factory are reused as the decoration of the park.