新型城镇化强调城镇化建设质量内涵的全面提升,从“增量规划”向“存量与减量规划”转型,追求节约集约、审慎高效地利用城市土地,从而解决复杂的城市问题。
21世纪以来,城市发展由传统的外拓、粗放模式逐渐向内涵、集约模式转变,人们愈加关注城市的品质与宜居性。城市绿色空间作为城市中以自然生态为主体的物质空间,其布局、质量与功能是决定城市品质的重要因素。然而,随着城镇化的进程加快,高密度城市可用的土地资源愈加紧张,城市面临因人口增多而日益严重的环境和生态问题,其表现之一即城市绿色空间不断被挤压、蚕食。
2015年9月,联合国可持续发展峰会正式通过17个可持续发展目标,旨在以综合方式彻底解决社会、经济和环境三个维度的发展问题。其中,对于城市提出了“建设包容、安全、有风险抵御能力和可持续的城市及人类住区”的发展目标。在此背景下,与市政工程统筹建设、融合人文及自然要素的城市绿色空间建设,或可成为在“存量与减量规划”背景下,改善城市环境、实现低碳减排、提高城市宜居品质、促进城市可持续发展的重要手段。在此理念下引导的城市建设,将更加注重资源的合理高效利用,注重人与自然的和谐,由此推动社会的良性发展。
在二十余年的景观规划设计实践中,我们一直在探索景观设计作为一种优质媒介,最大限度地发挥整体统筹功能的途径。我们致力于打通专业界限,追求一种“无界”的合作范式,将城市设施与自然环境,与人的日常生活方式、需求、观念、行为连接起来,促进城市有机体复合功能的融合发展,使景观设计向更广阔的领域敞开。
景观规划设计统筹是因地、因时、因人而异的解决方案,是出于城市整体空间和功能结构的考虑,以厘清场地基因为前提,从场地使用者的实际需求出发,将城市绿色空间、城市基础设施、文化服务设施一体化设计,创新建设城市绿色基础设施的新形式,使城市交通、城市能源、生态修复等市政工程与园林绿化相结合。既适应城市功能的需要,又避免了过度建设对城市生态环境的进一步破坏。由此探索景观规划设计整合功能的最大可能性,探索社会、经济、生态、文化与美学等综合效益最大化。
在此过程中,我们始终秉持 “风景融入日常生活”的设计理念,秉持对情境中人的关照的设计初心,珍视地域人群共有的文化传承,重视景观设计的社会学功能。我们所追求的最终目标是运用专业手段协调人与环境的关系,缓解人的生存压力,守护“活力基因”,建立良性可持续的生活方式,激发民众活力和场地生产力,提升场所中人的幸福感与归属感。不着痕迹地浸润,自然而然地介入,经由改善城市生态改善人们的生存状态,重塑其对环境的感知。这种似无为的有为,正是我们不懈追求的境界。
本书着重记录了无界景观设计团队在北京城市副中心行政办公区景观规划以及先行启动区的景观设计实践,并回溯了十余年前设计团队在天津渤龙湖经济区综合体景观设计(城市新区建设项目)及天津解放南路地区景观规划设计(城市片区有机更新项目)中的思考。天津的两处项目因多种原因未能全部实施,但其中的设计理念内涵一直承袭延续,最终在北京城市副中心行政办公区先行启动区项目中得以实现。
经由总结再出发,自遗憾中收获,在记录中成长,是我们著作本书的目的,也是我们对自己的期许。
中国城市建设研究院无界景观工作室
2022年10月
Modern urbanization emphasizes comprehensive improvements in the quality of urban construction and a transformation from incremental planning to stock and reduction planning, by pursuing the economical, intensive, prudent and efficient use of urban land, so as to solve complex urban challenges.
Since the 21st century, urban development has gradually shifted away from a traditionally crude and outward-looking model to a more concentrated and reflective model, which reflects the growing concerns people have about the quality and livability of cities. As a physical space and natural ecology, the layout, quality and functions of urban green spaces are an important factor in determining the quality of a city. However, with the acceleration of urbanization, the available land resources in high-density cities are becoming more and more limited, and cities are facing increasingly serious environmental and ecological problems due to growing populations, of which one of the manifestations is the continuous squeezing and encroachment of urban green space.
In September 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit officially adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to thoroughly address the three dimensions of development-social, economic and environmental-in an integrated manner. One of the development goals for cities is “to build inclusive, safe, risk-resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements”. In this context, the construction of urban green spaces, which integrate humanistic and natural elements with municipal projects, play an important role in improving urban environments and urban livability, achieving reductions in carbon emissions, and promoting sustainable urban development in the context of stock and reduction planning. Guided by this concept, urban construction pays greater attention to the rational and efficient use of resources and ensuring harmony between human beings and nature, thus promoting the virtuous development of society.
With more than twenty years of landscape design and planning experience, we are constantly exploring ways to maximize integrated functions into landscape design as a medium for the advancement of society. We are committed to bridging professional boundaries and pursuing a “borderless” paradigm of cooperation, connecting urban features and the natural environment with people‘s daily lifestyles, needs, perceptions and behaviors, promoting the integration and development of composite functions of urban organisms, and expanding the domain of landscape design.
Landscape planning and integrated design is a solution that takes into account the surrounding environment, timeframe, and people. It is a new model for the innovative construction of urban green infrastructure, which considers the overall spatial and functional structure of a city, the integration of urban green spaces, urban infrastructure, and cultural services, and their relation with the actual needs of users, under the premise of clarifying the site’s innate characteristics in accordance with local conditions, and the integration of transportation, energy, ecological restoration and other municipal initiatives within the scope of landscape design. It both adapts to the needs of urban functions and avoids further damage to the existing urban ecology from excessive construction. Based on this premise, it explores the maximum potential for integrating functions related to landscape planning and design, and the integration of social, economic, ecological, cultural and aesthetic benefits.
Throughout this process, we consistently uphold the design concept of “integrating landscapes into daily life”, with the core value of caring for people in these contexts, cherishing the value of cultural heritage, and attaching importance to the sociological function of landscape design. Our ultimate goal is to use professional methods to reconcile the relationship between people and their environment, alleviate the pressures of human existence, and ensure an overall dynamism, so as to establish healthy and sustainable lifestyles, stimulate people’s vitality and productivity, and enhance a general sense of happiness and belonging in those who wish to “abide”. It is a natural response to endeavor to reshape people‘s living conditions and the perception of their environment by revitalizing the surrounding urban ecology. This approach of “affecting change unseen” is precisely the goal we relentlessly pursue.
This book focuses on the landscape design practices of the View Unlimited design team and their application in the planning of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center Pilot Start-up Area. It retraces the design team’s process, starting more than ten years ago with the landscape design of the Bolong Lake Economic Zone Complex (a new urban area construction project) and the landscape planning and design of Jiefang South Road in Tianjin (an organic urban regeneration project). For various reasons, these two projects could not be fully implemented but their design concepts have been adopted and continued, ultimately resulting in the realization of the Beijing Municipal Administrative Center Pilot Start-up Area.
The purpose of compiling this book is to offer a summary before embarking on a new journey. It is a collection of the harvests from regrets, the records of our growth, and the expectations we have for ourselves moving forward.
View Unlimited Landscape Architecture Studio, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design
October 2022