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Quarry Gardens in Nanning Garden Expo Park / ATELIER DYJG + School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University

Yu Xin Li — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

2018 China International Garden Expo was held in Nanning, positioned along a river in the city’s hilly outskirts. Interspersed in the southeast section of the site is a series of quarries. The organizing committee hoped to transform seven of the relatively intact quarries into distinctive gardens displaying in the garden expo. The site covers an area of about 33 hectares. Several years had passed since mining at some of the quarries onsite ceased, yet two of the quarries persisted in mining activities until the city won the expo bid. These quarries suffered blasting during the mining that caused fragmented surfaces and rugged landforms at the pit bottom. The site was strewn with dilapidated hills, towering cliffs, deserted land surfaces, bottomless ponds, piles of abandoned soil and gravel, rusty quarrying equipment, etc.

Yunyang Riverside Green Corridor / ATELIER DYJG + School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University

Yu Xin Li — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Background. In the early 1990s, Three Gorges Project was launched on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which finally caused about 1.13 million people moving into new towns. Built in 1992, Yunyang is such a "Migrant Town". Located on a triangular hillside zone where Yangtze River meets Pengxi River, it sits just aside the bank of Three Gorges Reservoir, whose annual vertical fluctuation is up to 30 meters. Began in 2014, landscape architects firstly completed the overall planning of 33-kilometer’s waterfront public space with a total area of 448 hectares (44% of which are located in the water-level fluctuation zone). Then, the design of the 10-kilometer waterfront space surrounding the city center was proposed, and was eventually completed in 2021.