Running Waters Retail Plaza

…… This is a story about the stars fell into the sea within colorful Transparent crystal Like the dream is unreal... Would you like to work with designers to trace the tide of time and looking for falling stars? — SITE THINKING— Vanke Up City is located at the junction of Xinhua Road and Xinnan North Road, Xinwu District, Wuxi City that is 5 kilometers away from Wuxi East Railway Station; 5. 9 kilometers away from Sunan Shuofang International Airport, with convenient transportation. The east and south of the base are residential areas, the north is science and technology park, and the west side is adjacent to the municipal road. As the main interface of the base for external communication, it is blocked by the municipal greening with a width of 33m, so that only 5 meters of strip design space is left on the west side, which is not conducive to the external communication of the site, but also affects the display effect of the building facade in the site. Based on this, we put forward the strategy of "Open Street Corner, Broaden the Range". We opened the corner of Xinnan Road and Xinhua Road, formed an entrance square at the corner, and created a visible memory point to attract and retain the flow of people. Expand the design scope to the west by 15-18m, increase the landscape design space, and give the building facade more display space. —ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS— Up City was built by Los Angeles-based partner of MPG Group, Mr. David. Gal writes about how to create a business demonstration zone that makes a difference. Mr. Gal proposed “Artistic Interventions”. He believes that landscape is a combination of art and science, and this design focuses more on the expression of the artistic part, which can be embodied in a variety of ways -- contextual, deductive, interactive or emotional. It is the combination of creative ideas and skills to produce beautiful ideas and feelings of works. This case through the "Artistic Intervention" of art design technique, give water, material is qualitative with life, tells the story of a "Tracing the tide of time, the stars in the sea", amplify the landscape elements in the design of the size and proportion, boldly set at the entrance of giant flowerpot form of visual tension, and with an arc shape waterscape series water scene in the form of different story, gives people a surprise. Material application, the application of the organic glass of blue in flowerpot, bottom and vortex field everywhere, as if the stars fall into the sea, with the color of the sea, to the whole scene added a dreamy fairy tale color. —TRACING THE TIDE OF TIME— Since Taibo to Wu, the establishment of the south of the country, the construction of Meili, Wu culture has been developed, and with the ups and downs of history experienced the source, beginning, prosperity, continuation of culture...... It rises and falls like a wave and never stops. With the theme of "Tracing the Wave of Time", the demonstration area hopes to extend the touch of history in the site and let people feel the gift of time from the landscape level. In the design, we applied the different forms of the wave to the waterscape and pavement treatment, which evolved into interactive springs, curved waterscape, landscape water fall, whirlpool device and curved pavement, making the wave of the landscape surge in the whole site. In the square area at the main entrance, a huge array of art POTS is arranged to give people a visual impact with a relatively super-scale spatial volume, thus forming an eye-catching public landscape. The flower bowl adopts the installation form of stone cage built-in blue glaze stone, forming a blue fluorescent effect under the reflection of the built-in lamp at night. "Waterfall Shadow" -- the view of drop water landscape "Waterfall shadow" landscape drop is located at the beginning of the arc-shaped waterscape, the lower part of the drop is a circular water collecting device, built-in blue glass stone. At night, when the water falls, it forms a "fluorescent beach", like a "waterfall falling astrolabe". "The source of spring" -- the interflowing spring A participatory interactive fountain is set around the falling water. People can control the shape of the fountain through the button seats around it. "Button" shaped seats around the fountain are equipped with palm-shaped interactive buttons of different sizes, representing "Dad", "Mom" and "Baby" respectively. When three palms are pressed down at the same time, the fountain will appear a heart-shaped pattern, adding a warm color to parent-child interaction. ▲“DADDY” / “DADDY” Handprint ▲“MOMMY”/ “MOMMY” Handprint ▲“BABY” / “BABY” Handprint Arc waterscape The arc-shaped waterscape is like the arc trailing of a meteor across the night sky, which runs through the whole site, starting from the water fall at the entrance and ending with the water vortex in the commercial inner street. In the dynamic process, it circulates endlessly. The bottom of the pool is carved by the whole stone into a corrugated shape to guide the water flowing slowly; The still water section is level with the ground, with waves on both sides, and the bottom of the pool covered with blue glass stones for children to chase and laugh along the water bank. Interesting Cross Bridge There are three cross Bridges on the arc-shaped waterscape, which is full of childlike interest and curiosity. The southwest of the site is the public art space of "Wave of the Wave". The ground is equipped with wave-like free curved pavement, which forms a sharp contrast with the flat lines of the building. When the night falls, there will be a wave of projection lights down, in the sparkling light show, people feel like roam in the sea. In response to the pavement, the seats in the site are also curved, and planted pools or giant flowerpots are placed in them. FUN Outside The outside shop, there are art furnishings, special chairs and special-shaped flower beds for people to rest and stay. Different from the previous single-tone umbrella surface, the sunshade is composed of canvas fabric of different colors and patterns, which is consistent with the color collage style on the surface of the flower pot. The bright and cheerful colors inject more interest and vitality into the site. The step kick surface painting has the impression painting scroll pattern, the dreamy pen and ink slowly unfolds on the step, giving a person with beautiful reverie and experience. The end point of the arc-shaped waterscape is a water vortex. Through the vertical organic glass panel, people can clearly observe the vortex inside the device, just like the orbit of the star rotating in a bucket, and the star moving objects rotating. Water whirlpool outside the same filled with glass stone, and the whole waterscape, site as the one, people linger. —CONCLUSION— Landscape is the art of designing, planning and managing land that can be shaped to be monumental, traditional, future... Through the technique of "artistic intervention", Vanke Up City gives life to this land, making it soft, dreamy and ancient. With water as the vein, it leads people to trace the tide of time, collect the stars and the sea, and flow freely and smoothly in the ordinary life.