HI-FI Park is a sustainable belt park built on an urban leftover space adjacent to high-speed railways. Through the maximum use of existing resources and organic renovation strategies, the leftover space has been revitalized and becomes a destination that brings vitality and passion to the city by encouraging citizens to participate in trendy and art activities.
The site used to be a belt-like leftover space at the edge of an urban area, overgrown with weeds and covered with ditches, hummocks, an abandoned garbage dump and small patches of long deserted fields. Building a vigorous, dynamic and sustainable public space is significant to the city. The designers adopted a core concept of creating a nature-and-human-friendly, fashionable and shared space. The team preserved the existing ditches, trees and height differences of the site, and created a layout that responded to the diversified terrains of the site. They made full use of the existing trees and buildings, and brought more functions including a greenway for cycling, bouldering walls, roller skating spaces, an art gallery and a store for cultural and creative products. A belt park that provides diversified experiences and a consumption space are formed naturally. A colored greenway meanders and connects different parts of the park, bringing people to tour around the place, enjoy exhibitions or exercise here.
Low-reflection glass is used for the doors and windows of the buildings. An extremely thin layer of metal coating is painted to both sides of the glass to absorb sunlight and create insulation. Pavings that allow water infiltration and a rainwater recycling system are adopted in this project. The fence walls are built with used materials. Red bricks taken off from old buildings were laid for the walls in a traditional way, preserving cultural memories and reducing waste on materials to the largest extent.