China has always taken water governance as a major event for the country for there is an ancient policy that "country must be depending on the mountains and rivers."More than 60percent of China's territory is among the mountains,and among which waters are flowing.Since the roof of the world is in China,if the ice on mountains melts into flood,it would be hazardous to human life.Xia Yu invents the effective water—governance method of “guiding the water to sea”.He dredges the land to form the “earth of China”in which way men are rescued.Thus the struggle for production is evolved to a philosophy of "The benevolent loves mountains;the wise understands the water.The benevolent is static and happy;the wise is dynamic and has a long life ,which has been spread up to now.The institute has deep interests for managing water.It has established a systems thinking for special development through technology practice and field research on waterfront space of a number of major rivers in China over years.It has been looking for ways to the integration of cross—disciplinary,and carried out comprehensive,integrated designs and researches from aspects of water ecology,water environment,urban water,water economic and water culture.It combines the ideology of humanity and ecology,thus making the city be subject to rivers,and blending the functions of city safe,public space rest and water space of rivers.It has successfully completed a number of domestic high—quality urban seafront public open spaces,and has won the IFLA Land Resource Management Excellence Award,National Best Engineering Design Award,Shanghai Survey and Design Excellence Awards,which reflects an ancient Chinese philosophy “God rewards the diligent”.This book includes twenty representative works of practical projects during the past ten years.It aims to express the design innovative ideas under the support multidisciplinary of this young team,giving rise to more extensive and in—depth discussions,so as to seek the dream of Contemporary Chinese Landscape Design.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Professor of Beijing Forestry UniversityMeng Zhaozhen2014.12.15
回归的江河凝视河流,就如同凝视我们的生活。
“有水的地方就是家的方向,沿着河走就是走在故乡”。水,记录了生命初始进化的状态,滋养着生灵万物。水,孕育河流的汇聚,是城市的血脉;水,寻找文化的光明,是城市的眼睛;水,激活灵感的意境,是城市的智慧。
漫步河流,粼粼波光在城市影像中泛动,照耀人们心底的梦想……流连在时间的版图上!理想的城市应该有一条理想的河流,它不是记忆中片断的河床,而是洁净美丽的栖所家园,河流被赋予它自己该有的全面意义,河流的综合设计在水体生态修复和生物栖地重建技术的基础上,融入城市公共游憩和文化创意设计,江河将重回健康和诗意的体验氛围,这是每一个城市都梦寐以求的画面。这里,可以让人们的眼睛清澈、思绪轻盈,可以让孩子的笑声和花香一起自由飘荡。
回归的江河,河流叙事与主题空间的尝试。在我们面前的不是个独立定义的滨水景观,而是多个滨水空间的综合体。近年来上海市政总院景观设计研究院的设计团队成功实践了多个国内水系治理修复的滨水开放空间实例。从水生态、水环境、水城市、水文化、水经济多个方面进行全过程设计挑战,在作品中不断注入生态平衡、人文关怀的原则,使河流承载城市公共安全、公众游憩和空间创意的设计职能得以全面演绎,建成国内多个高品质的城市滨水公共开放型空间代表作品。并屡次荣获IFLA土地资源管理杰出奖、全国优秀勘察设计奖、上海优秀勘察设计奖等多个国内外重大奖项。
是时代的需求,决定了景观专业的未来研究方向。从上海母亲河苏州河到黄浦江,从吴淞江到长江、湘江、珠江、赣江……我们的设计团队,通过对中国多条大江的滨水空间的技术实践和实地调研留下了对于专业发展的系统思考,并一直追求学科的跨界整合。我们的团队始终强调将景观作为对土地资源管理的设计,是建立在自然科学和社会科学的基础上,推崇理性认知和感性论证结合的逻辑方法。与城市规划、建筑设计、工程设计、环境艺术等学科有着密切的联系,并需要地理学、生态学、环境学、行为心理学、美学、社会学、经济学等诸多学科的背景支撑,景观不仅作为视觉景象,更是感知景象,并赋予社会的时代体验。在一些城市公共开放型空间景观案例中,项目团队一直致力于在城市的空间尺度,使用者的生活方式,以及城市的自然生态格局进行研究,这些研究的基点都是公众共同的利益,是在了解自然规律的前提下动态的呵护与调整,是演变过程中的文化再创造。我们所理解的景观设计是以土地为依托,以时间为脉络,以自然自我更替为特征,将使用者的体验为论证依据的现代科学,它关注着一切生命的和谐共存。
在上海市政总院60华诞之际,出版了《回归的江河》将景观设计研究院近十年期间在国内各城市滨水实践代表作品20件收录成册。旨在向社会各界表达了这个年轻团队关于多学科协同下的设计创新实践思考,期待引发更多的分享与探讨,并继续寻求新的当代中国景观设计之路。
上海市政工程设计研究总院(集团)有限公司
景观设计研究院
院长钟律
2014.8.12
The Return of Rivers
Care for rivers,like care for our lives