Beihai Silver Beach #4road optimization

The renewal of Silver Beach Road No.4 in Beihai is a comprehensive road and landscape upgrading project that transforms a formerly congested municipal road into a resilient coastal green corridor, slow-traffic promenade, and urban leisure scenic route. Located in the central Silver Beach area of Beihai, Guangxi, the road had long served both tourism and urban through-traffic, causing unclear functions, congestion, poor visitor experience, ecological degradation, and inadequate supporting services. The design team, led by SED Landscape in association with the Beihai Urban Planning and Design Institute, set four upgrading strategies: system-wide improvement integrated with the scenic area, linking core landscape nodes point-to-surface, emphasizing road theme characteristics, and enriching experiential scenes. Relying on the natural ecological base of the ten-li Silver Beach, the project integrates coastal resources with the scenic road, improves infrastructure, enhances waterfront environmental quality and public vitality, and attracts leisure, tourism, and residential development toward building a world-class coastal tourism brand. The road is repositioned as a coastal, tree-lined, slow-traffic landscape promenade: traditional vehicle lanes are converted into fully pedestrian and cycle paths, roadside parking is removed, and walking areas are widened to give pedestrians a comfortable experience. Five sensory experiences are created, named Encounter Before Silver Beach, Romance by the Harbor, Passion Beneath the Waves, Light Strip in the Shade, and Colorful Silver Beach Holiday. Art installations carry local memory: The Wind of Beibu Gulf, Fish Talk Fishing, and The Whale, the last referencing the Bryde's whales that visit these waters. Planting uses flowering trees and shrubs in large color blocks combined with micro-topography, creating wild, natural, ecological coastal greenery for a four-season flowering Silver Beach. The corridor integrates coast with urban public space, village wharves, and the traffic system, truly bringing the city to the sea. The project is essentially complete.