A Multidisciplinary Renovation For Xihongmen Venture Street La Design

It connects people’s daily life, as well as theirmemories. The happiness of a stable life is hidden in the streets andlanes. Everything in its growth is always planted into the timetogether with trees and bushes in the nature. Return the street to our daily Life. Let time embracegrowth. Love and hope afar,Are all in the footsteps. Xihongmen is named after the west gate of Nanyuan, animperial garden in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Xihongmen Townpossesses superb geographic location and acts as animportant transportation hub in the southern region ofBeijing, enjoying a reputation of “Pearl in the SouthBeijing “. Xihongmen Venture Street, the central avenueof Xihongmen area, is located in the heart of XihongmenTown. It starts from Huiju Center in the west and ends atXihongmen Town Government in the east, with a total lengthof nearly 3 kilometers. With the upgrading construction inrecent years and the entry of companies in culture, finance,e-commerce and other industries, the commercial atmosphereof this street becomes stronger day by day. However, it is not only a highway and a venture center, butalso a vital artery of Xihongmen Town carrying life memoryfor local residents. When single commercial developmentcannot meet residents’ pursuit of a livable place and theirdiverse needs for a better life, creating a “people-orientedurban shared space to serve the public” becomes aninevitable choice to adapt to the development of the times. “Stay outside the hustle and bustle, but have easy access tothe city center”. It means although live in the capital,residents can still maintain a comfortable distance from thenoisy environment, which is the choice of life, as well asthe wisdom of life. The Xihongmen area has gone through the development of thisera. Under the background of rapid urban construction,current Xihongmen Street Community, which is mainlyresidential, is gradually formed. Most residences are alongthe street, and the residential areas are separated byroads. Simple street space and structure, the lack of publicspace and insufficient street furniture, all lead to thestreet space environment in Xihongmen area seriously shortof vitality. The design team updated and upgraded the street from aspectsof road engineering, greenery landscape improvementengineering, lighting engineering, etc. Extra ginkgo treesare planted on the green belts in the center and on bothsides to meet the needs of vehicular traffic. At the sametime, the seasonal changes of ginkgo trees can also bringpedestrians a unique slow-walking experience. Designers changed and added to urban furniture such aswayfinding signs, garden lamps, seats, flower boxes and treegrates. In order to create a multi-functional and dynamicspace, the design team carried out a modular design forurban furniture – match movable modular furniture in groupsto form modular leisure sub-sites. The modular combinationof urban furniture can not only be used in the currentdesign and renovation, but also in other spaces to beupdated in the future for sustainable improvement. A touch of dazzling orange makes up complete streetfurniture, and at the same time embellishes the greenery inthe city, allowing people to enjoy walking slowly, as wellas the relaxing moments of chatting with friends and familyby the roadside and under the trees. How to reasonably and effectively use the limited budget onstreet space, so as to achieve the maximal effect? This wasthe first problem that the design team mustface. Therefore, in the upgrade and reconstructing ofVenture Street, the design team started from the centralpoint and brought vitality to the existed linear street byoptimizing and upgrading important nodes in thissite. One of the nodes is the renovation of the outerwall of Xinghai School. On school days, there are always students and parents walkingalong the outer wall of Xinghai School. With the timepassing by, the wall gradually becomes mottled, and thesidewalk landscape is monotonous and lacks vitality. It iscompletely different from the vigorous campus. The primary design intention was to restore this wall, makingthis only way to school as positive as the energeticchildren. The existed boring wall on the street is nowpainted with bright color and written positive slogans onit, turning it into an ornamental graffiti scroll and adelightful passage for children. Meanwhile, the design teamset up leisure seats along the street, providing a place forparents to have a rest and chat when picking up theirchildren. The site was originally a music square. It’s close to XinghaiSchool, so the design team hoped to create a “30 minutesafter school” entertainment space for children to releasethe pressure of schoolwork. The existed site was mainlyconsisted of a large area of hard top and landscapeinstallations that simply symbolize “keys of pipe organ”.