Nanshan Ecological Culture Park

Nanshan Ecological Cultural Park, formerly Nanshan Central Wetland Park, sits at the center of Nanshan in Chongqing's main urban area, within the city's slow-traffic landscape belt. The 200,000-square-meter park preserves the original Nanshan landform and uses on-site lotus-pond water systems to build a wetland landscape, surrounded by residential districts, education plots, small retail and tourist attractions. Camping, picnics and sports have long been popular, but aging facilities, worn signage and a loss of spiritual content prompted a micro-renewal by Qiandao Design, photographed by HINO. The renewal takes the wetland's ecological, economic and cultural functions as its starting point and develops parent-child tourism and environmental education into a new urban science-education base: a modern, child-friendly park that combines ecological experience, nature science and sightseeing. The design is deliberately restrained, avoiding over-design, and instead reorganizes functional zones, raises the visual environment through bold color and pattern, and adds cultural-education facilities that invite children to explore and play. The core concept is a building-block game in nature: abstracted plants and animals are turned into bold, simple geometric shapes, extended into an IP, signage, educational facilities, interactive installations and merchandise. The IP draws on local references: Chongqing as a city of eagles, where thousands of raptors pass overhead in spring and autumn migration; the Nanshan Golden Eagle, a roughly 50-meter, thousand-ton sculpture on 671-meter Yaoying Rock; and the August 2022 forest fires, when firefighters, armed police and volunteers built fire walls that became a people's defense. The signage system, modeled on three-dimensional puzzle toys, uses bright colors and geometric patterns as a link between park architecture and navigation, while educational facilities turn ecology and fire-safety learning into play. The result is a colorful, imaginative, information-rich child-friendly ecological science park that balances urban development with quality of life.