China Railway - Changchun Expo City

The China Railway Changchun Expo City is a municipal children's play landscape of about 3,000 square metres in Changchun, Jilin, designed and built by Suzhou Ludong Play Equipment with Shenyang Zhengzheng Kangti Play Equipment for CR Changchun Northeast Asia Expo Real Estate. The entire programme is narrated as a space voyage: every child is imagined as a little astronaut with a private universe, and the equipment is organized as a journey through the solar system. Visitors pass down a long corridor to a rocket-launch zone where they can suit up, climb the launch tower and imagine themselves arriving in outer space, where a figure sits on the moon. Orange star-ship play structures accommodate rocking and spinning, surrounded by small planets that children can weave between; a flying-saucer play area, a tree-house rest station, swings and a graffiti wall that merges with the overall colour palette complete the circuit. Percussion instruments, spring riders and telescopes punctuate the route. The contractor overcame a distinctive local challenge: Changchun's silt clay, with a 1.7-metre frost depth, produced frost heave and ground deformation that threatened equipment foundations. The team solved the problem with two differentiated foundation systems for large and small equipment, coordinating with every trade and personally rechecking each step of construction to deliver the intended spatial experience. Project details are limited in the source material.