Shougang site into a hard core park
Our reporter Yang Xuecong
On October 5th, the "Beijing Science Fiction Carnival" came to an end in Shougang Park in Shijingshan District, Beijing. The holographic projection and other technological means collided with the old Shougang's blast furnaces, silos, and workshops to create a super visual impact; on October 17th, The Chinese Dancers Association's 2021 environmental dance performance will be staged in Shougang Park. The dancers' graceful dance poses and modern industrial style form a unique artistic tension.
The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee’s office is settled, the ski jumping platform is completed, and the service trade fair is held. The old factory area of Shougang, a land that has been tempered by hot metal, is returning to the "C position" relying on the distinctive industrial wind, bringing people More and more surprises.
Tough industrial style
Today, when it comes to Shijingshan, many Beijingers think of Shougang first.
Lao Shougang is located in the "West Gate" of Beijing. It was established in 1919. In 1958, the first side-blown converter was born here. In 1979, it became the first pilot unit of national economic system reform. It introduced top technologies at home and abroad, and its output increased rapidly. In 1994 With an annual output of 8.24 million tons of steel, it ranks first in the country.
In its heyday, the profits and taxes of a Shougang company accounted for a quarter of Beijing's taxes.
In order to host the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, this piece of factory holding the glory and dream of the new China's metallurgical industry has bid farewell to the iron and steel industry where molten iron is rushing and steel is splashing.
After a short period of silence and deep transformation, the Shougang Industrial Heritage Park was rejuvenated and energetic.
Walking through the park with strewn steel and iron bones, the tall and tough industrial remains have been transformed into an internet celebrity check-in site with dexterity and skill.
In September of this year, Shougang Park became the new venue for the China International Trade in Services Fair. 15 steel structure pavilions were erected to integrate with the Olympic venues, industrial remains and surrounding landscapes.
Yan Ligang, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that the Shougang Park of the Service and Trade Commission continues the beauty of the old Shougang industry with the comparison of new and old materials and spaces, realizing the transformation from industrial buildings to modern exhibition spaces, and providing positive and beneficial explorations for the transformation and upgrading of Shougang Park.
The rippling blue waves of Qunming Lake surrounded by antique buildings used to be the cooling and drying pool of the original Shougang Industrial System; beside Qunming Lake, the scenic trail of Gaoxian Park winds past. This is a view reconstructed on the basis of the Shougang Industrial Pipe Gallery. Platform, the upper layer is a waterfront walkway, and the lower layer has a hydrophilic platform, which is integrated with the landscape and landforms; the No. 1 blast furnace under renovation and the No. 3 blast furnace, an important industrial symbol in the Shougang Park, stand tall and straight, looking across the road...
The autumn is high and refreshing, standing on the east bank of Qunming Lake and looking west, the promenade, archway and arch bridge have been built near the bank; overlooking the opposite bank, four cooling towers stand tall, the Winter Olympic ski jumping platform, the new Shougang Bridge and the green Shijingshan echo in a distance.
The different styles of classical and modern, industry and nature, past and future are integrated without any violation, and the unique landscape system of "mountain-water-industrial remains" in Shougang Park is constructed.
To make this land surrounded by green grass and mountains and rivers "live" and "fire", it is inseparable from the support of industry.
Focusing on "Sports+" and "Technology+", the original power plant, oxygen plant, May 1st theater, and milling workshop in the factory area have been transformed into hotels, industrial parks, and shopping centers... In 2016, the Xishi Silo was transformed into an office After the space, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee became the first customer to land in the Shougang Park.
The tough industrial style has become the biggest feature here.
New landmark of the city
In December 2018, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Government issued the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Development and Construction of the New Shougang High-end Industrial Comprehensive Service Zone to Build a New Landmark of Capital City Rejuvenation in the New Era (2019-2021)".
The old industrial zone of Shougang is making every effort to create a new landmark for the rejuvenation of the capital city in the new era, realizing cultural revival, ecological revival, industrial revival, and vitality revival.
With the 2022 Winter Olympics approaching, more and more urban renewal projects will follow after the delivery of the Winter Olympics office area and training hall.
Beijing West Shougang Old Industrial Zone, a new landmark of the capital with steel as its background, has become more and more exciting.
"Urban renewal is not simply'dismantling the old and building new'. Shougang has become a world-class example of industrial site renovation." said Guan Weihong, senior director of asset management at Tishman Speyer, who is responsible for the Liugonghui project in Shougang Park. Urban renewal in her eyes, It is to improve the efficiency of land use, optimize the industry, govern the city, improve the ecological environment, and carry on certain inheritance of historical culture.
Liugonghui, adjacent to No. 3 blast furnace and High Line Park, is a project that effectively integrates modern design concepts with the original industrial heritage.
With a total construction area of 224,000 square meters, including 11 single-family buildings, 11 single-family flagship commercial buildings and a shopping mall, a world-class urban community integrating indoor and outdoor spaces is expected to open simultaneously during the Winter Olympics.
The Shougang Park, which carries the capital’s century-old industrial history, has many examples of the revitalization and utilization of cultural heritage.
In the No. 4 silo of Beiqitong, RE Rui International Creative Memory Hall has been in operation for more than a year.
Over the course of the year, exhibitions such as "Return to the Garden of Ten Thousand and One Nights" and "Discover the Central Axis of Beijing" were launched here, recreating the disappeared Old Summer Palace-the "magical world like a thousand and one nights" written by the missionaries, and also exploring He discovered what Liang Sicheng called "Beijing's backbone."
Yang Si, executive director of RE Rui International Creative Museum, told reporters that the Qingcheng Ruixian Digital Technology Research Institute of Tsinghua University behind them has been engaged in the research and interpretation of cultural heritage. The Ruiguan project is the first to transform cultural resources into market resources. A new exploration.
Shan Jixiang, honorary curator of Ruiguan, called Ruiguan's practice of displaying traditional culture in industrial heritage as a collision between industrial civilization and traditional civilization.
"When selecting the site, we did not simply use it as an exhibition space, but while preserving the original appearance of the industrial site and the historical information of the silo to the utmost extent, we activated and utilized it, and injected cultural content and digital experience into this space to make it radiant. New vitality. In fact, this place does attract more young people, and more than 70% of the visitors are'post-90s' and'post-00s'." Yang Si said that there are many designers, customer service and museum service personnel who come to work here. They are inextricably linked with Shougang. Some of their parents work in Shougang and some are retired employees of Shougang.
Activate the link between people and start a dialogue between history and today-Shougang has found a new way to explore the social role of cultural heritage and maintain cultural vitality.
New vitality of business
Back then, Shougang was the benchmark of the capital's industry, and today it is still the driving force behind the development of western Beijing.
The heaviness and strength of industrial buildings inject continuous vitality into the park across time and space.
The blast furnace is an iconic symbol of steel companies.
The most well-known star building in Shougang Park is No. 3 blast furnace.
In 1959, when this behemoth with a height of 107 meters and a diameter of 80 meters was put into production, one would not have imagined that the rugged steel frame and blast furnace could transform into a "showground" for Internet celebrities and become a gathering place for trendy activities and exhibitions.
In recent years, the "first-launch economy" represented by the first stores and exhibitions has been in full swing.
Shougang Park is building an international new product launch platform, relying on the No. 3 blast furnace, Shougang ski jumping platform and other places to build special launch venues, and strive to build a "global launch center".
At the same time, we will improve the first-launch service package, formulate price strategies and operational service plans, provide new product release facilities and sales platforms, and improve the new product trademark rights protection system.
Many businessmen gathered to gather popularity.
During the National Day holiday this year, new stores in the park, such as Crispy Duck, Shougang Grand Canteen, Western Malaysia China, Dayi Tea House, etc. opened. Shougang Cultural and Creative, National Reading Art Bookstore, and Ink Armor Robot Science Fiction Theater have launched special activities.
The China Science Fiction Conference, which was announced to settle in Shougang Park in 2020, has set off a science fiction boom here.
With the Science Fiction Conference as the carrier and platform, the Shougang Park started the construction of the country's first science fiction industry cluster, building a science fiction international exchange center, a science fiction technology empowerment center, a science fiction consumer experience center, and a science fiction public service platform. It will take 10 years to build a science fiction industry An important bearing site for development and a characteristic park with global influence.
Over the past year, through the introduction of social capital, the No. 1 blast furnace fantasy paradise VR immersive experience project and Tencent digital studio have been transformed here, and more than 20 science fiction companies such as Asia Pacific Wenrong, Tiantu Wanjing, and Future Affairs Administration have been signed. A sci-fi enterprise cluster area is initially formed.
The southern side of Qunming Lake was originally the site of the Shougang Oxygen Plant, but now the original workshop has been customized and transformed into a comprehensive studio space. Beijing International Cloud Broadcasting Technology Co., Ltd., co-sponsored by the Academy of Sciences, settled down.
Backed by Shijingshan Mountain and adjacent to the Yongding River, this once heavy industrial area has been revitalized.