Jingyue Central Park / SHUISHI

Design Coordinator: SHUISHI
Planning Design: SHUISHI Landscape Design
Landscape Design: SHUISHI Landscape DepartmentⅡ, SHUISHI Landscape EPCO Management Team, Changchun Jingyue Design Group Co., Ltd
Digital Design: SHUISHI, FAB-UNION
Construction: Shanghai Garden Group Fourth Branch, Shanghai Garden Group General Contracting Division
Intelligent Construction: FAB-UNION
Operator: SHUISHI, Shanghai Garden Group
Project Management: Changchun Weishi Construction Engineering Project Management Co., Ltd.
Client: Changchun Jingyue High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management Committee, Jilin Jingfa Innovation Investment Group Co., Ltd, Changchun Jingyue Investment Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd.
City: Changchun
Country: China

Jingyue Central Park, designed by SHUISHI, addresses the ecological and social needs of Changchun City within the Jingyue High-tech Zone, spanning 490,000 m². This development features advanced structural solutions like Karamba-optimized frameworks and steel-wood hybrid platforms, executed through an EPCO collaboration with Shanghai Landscape Group. Utilizing Ameba visual programming, the design incorporates extensive green valleys, water bodies, and rejuvenated viaduct spaces, promoting a seamless integration of nature within the urban context. The park is divided for diverse usage: 9% dedicated to public welfare, 18% to semi-public functions, and 73% to commercial activities, ensuring financial sustainability. This strategic allocation supports a variety of commercial enterprises, including anchor tenants like Baidu, and includes comprehensive parking solutions.ewal.

Jingyue Central Park is ideally located amid large residential communities, business centers, and educational institutions such as Northeast Normal University. It serves as a vital connector within the urban landscape, particularly benefiting from its proximity to nine universities, which strengthens its role as a collaborative educational hub. Previously, the area was marred by piles of construction debris and an incomplete viaduct, which disrupted the connectivity of its northern and southern sections. SHUISHI’s redesign not only restored this connectivity but also extended the park’s influence both north-south and east-west, establishing it as a crucial node in the city’s green space network. The park now enhances access to nature for approximately 300,000 residents, integrating active and educational spaces to foster greater public engagement and collaboration with local universities, enhancing its role as a shared research and recreational platform.

Jingyue Central Park is an EPCO (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Operation) cooperative project developed by SHUISHI in collaboration with Shanghai Landscape Group. Commissioned by the Changchun Jingyue Management Committee and Jingfa Group, the project integrates design, procurement, construction, and operation to maximize social and economic value, enhance quality, minimize costs, and adhere to strict scheduling requirements. This holistic approach ensures the long-term sustainability and efficient development of the park throughout its entire lifecycle. The project employs an integrated design approach and a cohesive formal language to create harmony between the architectural structures and the surrounding landscape, resulting in a coordinated and symbiotic aesthetic. Landscape planning plays a dominant role in shaping the overall spatial layout, ensuring both functional rationality and visual cohesion. Moreover, the designer responsibility system within the EPCO framework establishes a clear design direction, maximizing aesthetic impact and construction quality.

Through design-led technical collaboration, advanced design strategies, and early application of construction technologies, the project achieves high-performance multi-disciplinary integration with exceptional results. Karamba is utilized to optimize the scale relationship of the grid shell structure and the steel-wood hybrid lookout platforms in the eastern and western quarters. The parametric design approach incorporates branch theory to refine mat formation units, creating an organized and aesthetically pleasing pavement system through classification and combination. In the children’s playground, Ameba is employed to shape and optimize the visual structure, executing synchronous simulations in Rhinoceros to identify stress weaknesses in the construction curves. This process enhances structural integrity and improves overall form and stability.

The collaboration between design and construction has significantly strengthened the project’s ability to integrate and apply advanced technologies. Throughout the process, design consultants, resource suppliers, and construction teams worked closely to establish a solid foundation for the park’s operation and maintenance. The project has effectively optimized investment scale, functional layout, and usability by incorporating operational considerations early in the construction phase. During the initial viaduct design, dynamics principles and topology optimization were applied to refine the structure and minimize support rods, resulting in a light, efficient design. Leveraging the free modeling characteristics of space arch shell structures, the main keel and side beams were seamlessly integrated, producing a lightweight, visually elegant, and digitally optimized viaduct.

The design utilizes the site’s height variations to create a multi-level, three-dimensional traffic network, seamlessly linking indoor and outdoor spaces while offering a diverse spatial experience. In the green valley, pedestrian paths are designed as a flexible system, harmonizing natural landscapes with user-friendly amenities to provide an immersive and exploratory strolling experience. The interconnected multi-level pathways, combined with key park nodes, ensure smooth circulation and effortless access to all spaces.

Jingyue Central Park establishes a vast and continuous ecological green lung within the dense urban landscape, offering residents a space to connect with nature and unwind. Beyond recreational benefits, the park plays a crucial role in enhancing the urban ecological environment and elevating overall city quality.

The project incorporates operational planning throughout its entire life cycle, from initial design and planning to the park’s public opening, significantly enhancing long-term efficiency. An operation-based design strategy allocates 9% of the park for public welfare, 18% for semi-public use, and 73% for commercial operations, ensuring financial sustainability. Through precise financial calculations, the park is strategically positioned, utilizing building quotas to introduce businesses and key tenants, such as Baidu, while also addressing parking needs. This approach generates high-value assets for the government, supporting financial stability and long-term park operations. A professional operations team applies a business-driven approach, allowing operating income to cover costs and potentially generate surplus revenue, easing financial pressure on the government and state-owned enterprises. Once operations stabilize, management responsibilities will be transferred to local organizations and teams for sustained operation.

The park’s design prioritizes public experience, balancing visual impact and cost efficiency to ensure optimal fund distribution, the creation of local highlights, and a cohesive overall aesthetic. The space beneath the viaduct has been transformed into an inclusive, multi-functional public area, catering to residents of all ages. Moreover, a specially designed basketball court repurposes previously unused urban space, offering a dynamic new gathering place for basketball enthusiasts while enriching the city’s recreational infrastructure.

The design team has curated social resources that are culturally engaging and widely appreciated by citizens of all ages, particularly young people. A co-construction and sharing partnership between universities and the Central Park has been established, creating a practical training base for academic institutions. This collaboration allows students to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world construction projects, fostering hands-on learning and the exchange of educational resources and practical opportunities.

As a key component of the urban green space system, Changchun Jingyue Central Park plays a vital role in enhancing the urban ecological environment and improving residents’ quality of life. Moreover, it contributes to the coordinated development of surrounding areas and serves as a driving force for urban renewal, fostering sustainable growth and connectivity within the city.