High-Tech Park Landscape Design—From Silicon Valley to Zhongguancun (Includes CD-ROM)

Author: Yu Kongjian et al
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Publish Date: 2003-02-12
Features: This book is based on the theoretical and practical exploration of high-tech park design by Dr. Yu Kongjian, a Harvard University Ph.D. in Design and a professor at Peking University, along with his colleagues. Innovation networks and humanistic spirit are the starting point and endpoint of the authors' approach to high-tech park design. The core of the book lies in how to reflect, fulfill, and promote the formation of innovation networks in the landscape. The book is divided into three parts: Theory, Methods, and Practice. The Theory section emphasizes the historical significance of high-tech park development and the Silicon Valley spirit. The authors regard high-tech parks as a product of humanity's continuous pursuit of harmony among work, residence, and nature, marking the alternation and evolution of life ideals and technological civilization on the landscape. The Silicon Valley spirit, including entrepreneurial spirit and humanistic spirit, is the foundation for the emergence and development of high-tech parks and the essence that high-tech park landscape design should embody, distinguishing them from other types of land use and real estate development projects. The Methods section focuses on collecting the overall environment and outdoor spaces of high-tech parks, with particular emphasis on exploring park landscape design centered around human experience and activities. The discussion of famous company landscapes in Silicon Valley can be seen as further annotations of the aforementioned design methods. The Practice section presents five high-tech park planning cases. While these examples are not entirely perfect in many aspects, they at least demonstrate the authors' exploration of initiating and designing high-tech parks at different levels based on the formation and driving mechanisms of innovation networks, adhering to the principles of human-centricity, respect for nature, and respect for the site.