Luxun Park's water body ecological treatment project won the 2022 American International Design Award (the Landscape Project), according to the introduction by the Shanghai Hongkou District Greening and City Appearance Administration.
International Design Awards (IDA), established in 2007, aims to commend, praise and promote legendary design dreamers, explore emerging talents in architectural design, interior design, product design, graphic design and fashion design, and to appeal to the whole world to pay attention to design innovation, conceptual design and creative high-quality works.
Hongkou’s people are familiar to Luxun Park. There is Luxun's Tomb, a national cultural relic protection unit, the Shanghai Luxun Memorial Hall, and the Plum Garden, the memorial site of Yin Fengji's righteous deeds in the important historical and cultural park.
Luxun Park has hills, water and gardens. It has its unique beauty all the year round. The water area of Luxun Park is 3.6 hectares, accounting for 15.7% of the total park area. Hongkou District Greening and City Appearance Administration said that improving the landscape quality of the park is an important "topic" to promote the work of forest director system in the district. To this end, it has continued to carry out a series of governance on the park’s water ecology.
With the goal of improving water quality, renewing the park landscape, improving the living environment, and restoring the ecological balance, the water body ecological treatment project of Luxun Park has studied and constructed an ecosystem of water and land symbiosis, created a self-circulating ecological micro-environment, achieved the long-term water purification effect of the project, realized the low-cost maintenance, and efficient operation, becoming a re-practical model of the micro-reconstruction of the park ecological environment in urban space.
The design combines the landscape composition of traditional Chinese gardens with the modern concrete technology, combined with the new technology of the water ecology restoration, making the park take on a new look. It has improved the ecological environment and the living environment of the surrounding areas, created a better and more beautiful water landscape environment, and built a green environment with clear and beautiful water for tourists.
Adhering to the important concept of the people's city, the Hongkou District Greening Management Department broke the wall and expanded the green at the end of September 2022, so as to extend the park green space and mountain forest atmosphere to the urban blocks and provide citizens with a shared green space.