Turenscape Architects Turns a 54-Acre Garbage Dump Into a Luscious Low-Maintenance Park in China

<a title="Turenscape Architects Turned a Garbage Dump Into Luscious Low-Maintenance Park in China" href="http://www.turenscape.com/english/" target="_blank">Turenscape Architects</a> used a sustainable system called regenerative <a href="http://inhabitat.com/landscape-architecture">landscape design</a> to transform a former garbage dump into a natural oasis for citizens of Tianjin, <a title="Turenscape Architects Turned a Garbage Dump Into Luscious Low-Maintenance Park in China" href="http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-cloned-village-in-china-is-now-open-to-visitors/" target="_blank">China</a>. The Tianjin Bridged – Qiaoyuan park is a low-maintenance urban green space with plenty of ponds, native vegetation and wildlife that features terraced gardens and red bridges for visitors to enjoy a peaceful break from the busy urban center.

Tianjin Bridged – Qiaoyuan post-industrial park is a 54-acre green space built on the site of a formerly polluted, littered and deserted garbage dump.

The city’s municipal government called Turenscape to design a sustainable regeneration.

The architects created several low-maintenance garden spaces which emphasize native vegetation, biodiversity and providing people with green spaces for solitude and relaxation.

The site’s regeneration was a good opportunity to improve the quality of the soil, install rainwater treatment and ensure cherished aesthetic experience for visitors.

Seeds of mixed plant species were sowed initially to start the vegetation, and other native species were left to grow freely, allowing nature to co-design the landscape.

Designed with plenty of wetlands and ponds that grow during the raining season, this community park in Tianjin it’s a natural oasis in a populated Chinese city.