Docklands Park Yangtze River by BAU, Jiangyin, Jiangsu Building Development, Chinese Architecture Photos
Docklands Park, Yangtze River, Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China
20 May 2021
Docklands Park on Yangtze River, Jiangyin
Architects: Designed by BAU Brearley Architects + Urbanists
Location: Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China
Docklands Park, Yangtze River, Jiangyin
Ship Building Park:

Introduction
Jiangyin is on the Yangtze, the world?s busiest working river. The city is regenerating part of its industrial docklands as a high density live-work district. Stage one of this major project is the creation of a 4km public realm along the river edge. The design was selected through invited competition.
Ambitions

re-establish indigenous eco-system corridors;
preserve the industrial character; maintain presence of the historic past;
introduce leisure infrastructure for the new era
link beyond the site for the emergence of a city park network.

 

Soft edges and eco corridors

The Yangtze at this location is tidal. This project rehabilitates, preserves, enhances and extends a raft of microhabitats. Complexity of the existing river edge is formally maintained, enhanced and secured with loose rock scaled for habitat. A new corridor of indigenous trees and plants weaves through the project?s length to connect the Ebizui mountain ecological node to the east with the canal eco corridor towards the west.
Shiyu Port Docklands Park:

 

Post-industrial poetics

The vast worn concrete wharves a...