On November 22, the second North Bund International Shipping Forum kicked off. At the opening ceremony, the design scheme of North Bund Navigation Park was released.
Hongkou, named after the port, is also famous for the port. The North Bund is the place where China has opened its eyes to the world since the opening of the port of Shanghai, and it is also one of the birthplaces of Shanghai's modern shipping industry. The historical imprint of shipping culture is deeply engraved on this land.
In order to inherit the shipping culture and history, carry forward the shipping spirit of the new era, and further enhance the shipping culture atmosphere, Navigation Park is located in the green space of the core area of the North Bund, with a total area of about 35,000 square meters, adjacent to the world reception hall and across the river from Lujiazui, Pudong.
With the design concept of "riding the wind and waves, piloting the future", Navigation Park unfolds the story line with time and historical progress through the landscape structure design layout of the "time-space route" and the "exploration journey", creating three plates of "shipping origin", "journey exploration" and "world link", linking the historical memory of shipping culture and the new journey of the new era.
Linking up the Historical Context of Shipping
The theme sculpture "Dream Boat", which symbolizes the origin of shipping, will be set up at the main entrance of the park on Dongdaming Road. A leaf boat glides in the wind, which not only brings smooth artistic beauty and broad imagination space, but also is an artificial intelligence device with environmental sensing, information interaction and other functions, symbolizing the unlimited possibility of the future shipping.
Going south along the main garden road, it is a 77 meter long historical event axis of Chinese and foreign shipping. The development process of the world shipping history and the Chinese shipping history goes hand in hand. The key nodes on the two historical lines are made into icons and illustrations in order to let tourists walk through the history and feel the significance of the North Bund and even the shipping history of Shanghai in the world shipping history.
Creating "Park + Shipping Culture Education"
The Shipping Chronicle Axis is like an open-air shipping museum, providing a platform for teaching and practice for teenagers' extracurricular education.
As an important carrier of inheriting the history of shipping culture, the Navigation Park will also further expand the function of "Park + Education of Shipping Culture", set up a special exploration area, including many science popularization practice places such as the navigator training camp, the marine theater, the world nautical chart, the interactive landscape wall of the navigation culture, and create an immersive parent-child experience navigation exploration park integrating science popularization, interaction, and sports for young children, Let them better learn shipping knowledge, inherit excellent shipping culture and shipping spirit.
Further Improving the Landscape Sight Corridor
It further improves the greening landscape of the riverside area, opens the lifting railings and introduces the transparent riverside view into the navigation park, to integrate the core landscape on both sides of the riverside with the navigation park.
In addition, we will tailor the park's public seats, light poles, signs, trash cans and other facilities in combination with the shipping characteristics, to highlight the city's soft power in the detailed design, so that citizens and tourists can enjoy the ocean of shipping culture.