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    The Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park project involved designing a 20 hectare linear park along the Tanghe River in Qinhuangdao City, China. The site contained lush native vegetation but was unused, inaccessible, and faced development pressures. The design solution was to install a 500 meter long "red ribbon" boardwalk that integrated lighting, seating, and environmental education elements while preserving the natural habitat. This minimal intervention approach opened the space for public use while maintaining the site's ecological integrity.

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    The Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park project involved designing a 20 hectare linear park along the Tanghe River in Qinhuangdao City, China. The site contained lush native vegetation but was unused, inaccessible, and faced development pressures. The design solution was to install a 500 meter long "red ribbon" boardwalk that integrated lighting, seating, and environmental education elements while preserving the natural habitat. This minimal intervention approach opened the space for public use while maintaining the site's ecological integrity.

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    The Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park project involved designing a 20 hectare linear park along the Tanghe River in Qinhuangdao City, China. The site contained lush native vegetation but was unused, inaccessible, and faced development pressures. The design solution was to install a 500 meter long "red ribbon" boardwalk that integrated lighting, seating, and environmental education elements while preserving the natural habitat. This minimal intervention approach opened the space for public use while maintaining the site's ecological integrity.

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    The Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park project involved designing a 20 hectare linear park along the Tanghe River in Qinhuangdao City, China. The site contained lush native vegetation but was unused, inaccessible, and faced development pressures. The design solution was to install a 500 meter long "red ribbon" boardwalk that integrated lighting, seating, and environmental education elements while preserving the natural habitat. This minimal intervention approach opened the space for public use while maintaining the site's ecological integrity.

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    Qinhuangdao Red Ribbon Park

    Project Location: Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China


    Project Size: 20 Hectares
    Date of Design: October ,2005-2008
    Date of Complete: 2008
    Owner/Client: The Landscape Bureau, Qinghuangdao City, Hebei Province,
    China
    Narrative Summary:

    Project Statement: The Minimum Intervention Approach to Urban Greenway


    Against a background of natural terrain and vegetation, is a “red ribbon”
    spanning five hundred meters, which integrates the functions of lighting, seating,
    environmental interpretation, and orientation. While preserving as much of the
    natural river corridor as possible during the process of urbanization, this project
    demonstrates how a minimal design solution can achieve a dramatic
    improvement to the landscape.

    Narrative Summary
    1. Site Conditions and Challenges
    The project was located on the Tanghe River, at the east urban fringe of
    Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, China. The site is a linear river corridor, with
    a total area of about 20 hectares.
    The following site conditions offered both opportunities as well as challenges for
    the design of this site:
    (1) Good Ecological Condition: The site was covered with lush and diverse
    native vegetation that provides diverse habitats for various species.
    (2) Unkempt and Deserted: Located at the edge of a beach city, the site was
    a garbage dumping site with deserted slums and irrigation facilities such as
    ditches and water towers that were built for farming years ago.
    (3)Potential safety and accessibility problems: distributed with lush shrubs
    and “messy” grasses, the site was virtually inaccessible and insecure for people
    to use.
    (4) Use Demands: Along with the urban sprawl process, the site was sought
    after for recreational uses such as fishing, swimming and jogging by the people
    who came to reside in the newly developed communities nearby.
    (5) Development Pressure: The lower reaches of this river have already
    been channeled, and this process was likely to happen again at the site, meaning
    the natural river corridor was likely to be replaced with hard pavement and
    ornamental flower beds unless the new red ribbon design was implemented.
    2. Design objectives
    The major design challenge was how to preserve the natural habitats along
    the river while creating the new urban uses of recreation and education.
    The solution is the “red ribbon.”

    3. Design solution
    A “red ribbon” was designed against the background of green vegetation and
    blue water. This ribbon stretches for 500 meters along the riverbank, integrating
    a boardwalk, lighting, seating, environmental interpretation, and environmental
    orientation. It is made of fiber steel, and lit from inside so that it glows red at
    night. It stands 60 cm high, and its width varies from 30-150 cm. Various plant
    specimens are grown in strategically placed holes in the ribbon.
    Four pavilions in the shape of clouds are distributed along the ribbon, which
    provide protection from the weather, meeting opportunities, and visual focal
    points.
    Four perennial flower gardens of white, yellow, purple and blue, act as
    patchwork on the former open fields, and turn the deserted garbage dumps and
    slum sites into attractions.
    The bright red color of the ribbon lights up this densely vegetated site, links
    the diverse natural vegetation types and the four added flower gardens, and
    provides a structural instrument that reorganizes the former unkempt and
    inaccessible site. The natural site has been dramatically urbanized and
    modernized, two attributes that are highly sought after by the local residents
    while keeping the ecological processes and natural services of the site intact.

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