Historical and cultural block renovation and upgrading - Jimusar Cultural Road streetscape renovation and upgrading, Xinjiang

 

Site plan

 

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As one of the city's main thoroughfares, Cultural Road should be spacious and transparent, showcasing the city's cultural characteristics. The existing street space lacks pedestrian walkways and parking system planning, resulting in a lack of distinction between dynamic and static areas, safety, and order. Based on the existing street space, pedestrian walkways and an intelligent parking lot will be added, with approximately 200 on-street intelligent parking spaces. The existing trees are too dense, destroying the permeability of the urban space, and should be transplanted accordingly. The building facade renovation reflects the style of Tang Dynasty architecture, unifying the architectural form. Through the unification of elements such as roofs, shop signs, plaques, and doors and windows, the entire building is integrated, making the entire street clean and tidy; the road landscape renovation and upgrading retains the existing street trees, adds colored deciduous trees in key sections, sorts out the relationship between shrubs and ground cover, making it neat and orderly, and full of vitality; at the same time, reasonably configuring urban furniture with the characteristics of Tang Dynasty architecture, reflecting the city's humanistic care. The overall street style presents a new image of "Tang Dynasty charm; comfortable living," highlighting the connotation of Beiting culture, comprehensively improving the quality of Cultural Road, and enhancing the happiness and sense of gain of the people of Jimusar.

 

Before renovation

 

After renovation

 

After renovation

 

Jimusar carries the prosperous memories of the Silk Road. This work uses this as its creative blueprint, employing a scenario-based, symbolic artistic approach, with the themes of interconnection, economic integration, and ethnic unity. The work uses cast bronze and stone carving materials to reflect the sense of historical vicissitudes and weight. The landscape architecture part combines the ancient Beiting ruins, traditional Tang Dynasty architecture, and architectural elements of Jiangxi City culture. The wall area uses weathered textures to reflect the traces of time and the rammed earth construction technology of the past dynasties. It is inlaid with ancient roof tiles, architectural components, and Kaiyuan Tongbao coins, combined with Gobi camel team reliefs, as if turning the pages of history, slowly unfolding a grand historical scroll. This is a unique Silk Road mark belonging to Jimusar. The work is located in the cultural and sports center area, echoing and complementing the Beiting Garden.

This project uses Cultural Road as a pilot section, implementing transformation and street scene improvement design from three aspects: "architectural style, humanistic landscape, and urban furniture." The theme is "Tang Dynasty charm, happy and livable," with functional reshaping, cultural continuity, and green ecology as the main improvement directions. It excavates the connotation of Beiting culture and shapes the city's spiritual features. Starting from the citizens' experience, it creates a comprehensive street with high quality and convenient living, enhancing people's satisfaction, sense of gain, and happiness. Building transformation mainly adopts the Tang Dynasty architectural style, incorporating modern artistic techniques, making the entire street's style unified and culturally rich; road landscape design is based on the green belt control lines on both sides of the road, defining the boundaries of the urban road system and public land space, combing and repairing the trees and shrubs on both sides of the road, adding colored leaf trees, so that road greening has an ecological atmosphere in a simple, smooth, and rhythmical modern atmosphere, incorporating Silk Road, folk customs, and architectural culture, integrating urban pocket parks, connecting urban public green spaces, and carrying out all-around road appearance improvement; standardizing vehicle management space, reasonably configuring urban furniture with a blend of ancient and modern styles, creating a city cultural street area integrating cultural experience, leisure life, and health and fitness.