Huhaitang Park reconstruction project

Project overview The people is the foundation of a state and grain is life of the people. Food concerns the destiny of a state and the people's livelihood and is an important foundation for national security. On November 4, 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Preventing the "Non-Food Utilization" of Cultivated Land and Stabilizing Food Production", It is under this background that the Huhaitang Park requires reconstruction and agricultural land rehabilitation, restoring the cultivated land attribute and function of part of the green space in it for food production. The design attempts to integrate the strict standard farmland into the urban space so as to keep the leisure function of the park while meeting food production. This pratice is conducive to realize the combination of production and life and the combination of production and ecology, thus providing valuable practical experience in the protection of cultivated land and the compound utilization of public space. Design strategy 1. The design, by relying on the topography of the park and retaining the existing roads in the park as the skeleton, "embeds" the farmland into the park. The "decomposed" farmland is located on the hill in the form of small terraces, which integrates as much as possible with the park in a natural and appropriate way. The newly planned cultivated land roads for production machines and the reserved park roads perform their respective functions and interweave with each other, becoming the new service network of the park. 2. The soil improvement technology ensures that the current soil meets planting demand of the cultivated land. Compound application of organic fertilizer and woody peat effectively improves the surface edaphic indicator, thus avoiding a large amount of soil replacement cost. The "sponge city" technology is used to set up a multi-stage retention and filtration system, which greatly relieves soil erosion and forms a "breathing" ecological garden. 3. The design encourages the establishment of an agricultural operation and maintenance company to integrates agricultural production and park maintenance. This practice can activates the park through four-season rotation and activity planning, thereby building the reconstructed park into a new urban garden with pastoral flavor reflecting the farming culture and closely integrating with urban residents. Completion effect Ⅰ Completion effect Ⅱ Brief summary With the continuous promotion of urban-rural integration, the deep integration of urban and rural areas is an inevitable trend. The spatial integration of city and farmland is an important prerequisite for the realization of the integration. Farmland will cast off its single agricultural attribute in the past and provide comprehensive services for cities in production, ecology, leisure, consumption, education and other aspects. With the continuous development of modern agriculture and organic agriculture in production technology as well as the maturity of operation mechanism such as community supporting agriculture (CSA) are accelerating the pace of farmland integrating into cities. This helps establish a benign link between cities and land. This case has practiced the concept of urban garden in many aspects. The blend of bustling city and pastoral provides the Huhaitang experience for the realization of efficient and sustainable urban development.