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Jinzhou, China
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The Empty Land
Jinzhou, China
Project Featured on Oct 02, 2014
Firm
YEAR
2013
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
In collaboration with Bureau B+B
The Empty Land in Fierljep (far-leaping) Polder and Information Center in Jinzhou, China.
The city of Jinzhou is located 270 miles north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 12 miles from the coast. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of the Bonsai Sea. The development includes a park, for which KettingHuls and Bureau B+B built a fierljep polder and an information center. The polder garden was opened during the Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition in 2013.
A 10-foot-high dike surrounds the polder and protects the meadows and the ditch system. The polder is vacant, devoid of views and is therefore in contrast to the surrounding park. But before you know it, the polder turns into a playground. Visitors — fathers, mothers, and children — use poles to vault over the ditches, from one field to another. Euphorically projecting themselves onto inaccessible land, the visitors use poles to transport themselves through the polder in accordance with the more than 1,000-year-old tradition of fierljeppen. This spectacle can be seen from the dike: an empty polder transformed into a playground with leaping and laughing people.
Visitors enter the polder through the information center. Inside the center, visitors swap their shoes for red wellies; an instructive film explains how to leap across a ditch. The concrete space, with its alcoves and peepholes, is located inside the dike and reminiscent of a fortification. With its green-pigmented concrete and the caverns that provide the space with natural lighting, the center offers visitors an adventure even before they enter the garden.
Flower-filled meadows lie between the ditches. They differ in color due to the varied maintenance plan, visitor dynamics, and subtle differences in soil conditions and dampness. The result is a realm of meadow-islands with plants that can be walked on, water and waterside plants, clover and flowers in the grass, all of them changing with the seasons. Picking flowers and lying in the grass is permitted. With a garland of hand-picked flowers and drops of water on your cheeks, you say goodbye to the polder.
The Empty Land in Fierljep (far-leaping) Polder and Information Center in Jinzhou, China.
The city of Jinzhou is located 270 miles north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 12 miles from the coast. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of the Bonsai Sea. The development includes a park, for which KettingHuls and Bureau B+B built a fierljep polder and an information center. The polder garden was opened during the Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition in 2013.
A 10-foot-high dike surrounds the polder and protects the meadows and the ditch system. The polder is vacant, devoid of views and is therefore in contrast to the surrounding park. But before you know it, the polder turns into a playground. Visitors — fathers, mothers, and children — use poles to vault over the ditches, from one field to another. Euphorically projecting themselves onto inaccessible land, the visitors use poles to transport themselves through the polder in accordance with the more than 1,000-year-old tradition of fierljeppen. This spectacle can be seen from the dike: an empty polder transformed into a playground with leaping and laughing people.
Visitors enter the polder through the information center. Inside the center, visitors swap their shoes for red wellies; an instructive film explains how to leap across a ditch. The concrete space, with its alcoves and peepholes, is located inside the dike and reminiscent of a fortification. With its green-pigmented concrete and the caverns that provide the space with natural lighting, the center offers visitors an adventure even before they enter the garden.
Flower-filled meadows lie between the ditches. They differ in color due to the varied maintenance plan, visitor dynamics, and subtle differences in soil conditions and dampness. The result is a realm of meadow-islands with plants that can be walked on, water and waterside plants, clover and flowers in the grass, all of them changing with the seasons. Picking flowers and lying in the grass is permitted. With a garland of hand-picked flowers and drops of water on your cheeks, you say goodbye to the polder.
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