Dongshan Young Master Park/WAY Architects

Urban Renewal

Lead Architect: Ning Wang

SENIOR DESIGNER: WEIPENG HUANG, ZHUANG LIN

DESIGN TEAM: YANYU FAN, ZHI LUO, JINMING,LIANG,YURI, MOSES

Role - Digital Modeling, drafting construction drawings and construction supervising.

Toolkits - Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and AutoCAD

Year 2020

Location - Guangzhou, China

News Featured - Gooood, Archdaily, Sina

Dongshan Shaoye Plaza (Dongshan Young Master Park) is located in a very unique location in Dongshankou, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. It has always been the intersection of Dongshankou’s commercial vitality axis andnresidents’ life axis, and the starting point and ending point of the bus terminal. It is also a public node place that people must pass through when going to the Xinhepu Historic Preservation Area by subway. Dongshan Shaoye Plaza ( Dongshan Young Master Park) underwent a renovation in 2000. Ten years later, the plants are still full of vigor , but the overall quality of the square is low that limits the composition of the crowd, and inadequate public maintenance has caused the landscape structure area to become negative, which makes the park become a hygiene loophole and security blind spots.

that is comfortable and proud, and to attract more foreign tourists to learn about the regional culture of Guangzhou Dongshan through the square tour. In the end, because of the increase and diversification of the user population, the youthful vitality and cultural transmission are ignited, and the energy transmission from one community public node to the next community public node is truly activated. The scenery and characters of Dongshan Shaoye Plaza (Dongshan Young Master Park) together construct a threedimensional, time-changing spatial picture, in which trees play a very important role in limiting space. Madagascar almond have distinct branches, and the non-overlapping leaves allow sunlight to pass through in layers and dappled on the ground. People move in the lower part and have a clear vision. The light passes through the leaves to form a natural and beautiful light pattern. The air is smooth and not fast, and a feeling of comfort and tranquility emerges spontaneously.

Obviously, the appearance of the site was not imagined by the architect, but the site users spontaneously constituted its initial genes. After the architects and managers have rationally added multiple attributes, the variables of time have been put in, and long-term maintenance is implemented. The way the supervision is used is guided. Only such a venue will be loved by the public for a long time after the renovation, and will play a diverse mission that is more in line with the development and changes of the future city in addition to beauty.