Shanghai Jiading Wetland Master Plan, Shanghai, China
Winner: AECOM Asia Ltd.
Award: Honor Award for Urban Design and Sustainability in Design Award

People in metropolitan Shanghai have always been in need of large open space to escape from tensed urban life. The Shanghai Jiading Wetland project, situated in currently under-utilized farmland, is positioned as an urban wetland for city dwellers to be immersed in nature, to be educated in its restored ecological systems, as well as to experience the beauty of rural landscape in southern China.

The concept of the project is to create as variety of activities to give people a different wetland experience. The wetland district, not just a park, will become a place that best demonstrates where people can play, live and work in the natural environment. Through an integrated approach of farmland re-establishment, wetland restoration and forest recreation, the variety of experience to wetland is maximized and the ecological environment becomes richer with higher performance.

A series of tourism and educational programs are suggested in the wetland district. People can enjoy different themes in the eight distinct districts. The water flow of the wetland and vegetation along is carefully planned to make all leisure water bodies clean enough for people to play with.

The first phase construction is an eco business park as the pilot development to showcase sustainable development. As part of the whole wetland, experimental wetland treating gray water for phase 1 development will be the major landscape in connection with to the rest of the park. All systems of the built environment will be environmental friendly and sustainable.

There are a few existing farmer villages within the site. Simply through cleaning up environment and adding a layer of landscape, those villages can reveal its beauty and serve as tourism stations within the wetland parks.

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