Yan Dou’s First Fairy Mountain witnessed the brand-new appearance of “Shili Steel City”, Dunhuang Feitian turned into a big platform to realize the dream of “Double Golden Land” in the Winter Olympics, and the meritorious blast furnace enjoyed the splendid cultural events along the Yongding River … Over the years, Shougang Park has integrated cultural heritage protection into the overall situation of economic and social development and explored a unique new path to inherit industrial civilization. At the opening ceremony of the main city activities of Cultural and Natural Heritage Day in 2023, National Cultural Heritage Administration announced the first batch of recommended cases of high-quality development of cultural relics. As a representative case of coordinated development of cultural heritage protection with economy, society and ecological environment, the project practice of “activating and utilizing industrial heritage to serve people’s better life” submitted by Beijing Cultural Relics Bureau, Beijing Shijingshan District Culture and Tourism Bureau and Shougang Group Co., Ltd. was rated as the top ten cases of high-quality development of cultural relics. “Seeing the mountains, seeing the water, remembering the Shougang complex”, implementing policies by districts and building in Baoding, Shougang project not only retains the Beijing memory of Shougang for a hundred years, but also takes the initiative to develop the capital of the new era into a “sophisticated” one, becoming a model for realizing a win-win situation in the protection, transformation and utilization of industrial heritage and a new landmark for urban rejuvenation.
Shougang ski jumping platform Yuan Dexiang/photo
Strolling through Shougang Park, the transformation of industrial buildings has increased the scale of family bridges, the differential pressure power generation complex has been transformed into a leisurely coffee shop, and the waste materials have been artistically processed into landscape sketches … Here, the beauty of the old Shougang’s “plain face” industry has been continued, and the texture of the original environment and the imprint of history have been fully respected. The park is surrounded by green trees, the air is fresh, and the style of combining rigidity and flexibility is unforgettable. Boarding the No.3 Blast Furnace, people came and went on the viewing platform transformed from the maintenance platform. Jiang Jinyu, a former Shougang crown block driver and gold medal commentator, proudly told everyone about Shougang’s past and present. Looking up, on the one hand, it is the world-famous platform, and on the other hand, it is the “Fairy Mountain Qiongge” Shijingshan. Overlooking, you can see the sparkling xiuchi. The “Centennial Shougang Timeline” on the wall of the underwater exhibition hall can be traced … The West Ten Winter Olympics Plaza project in Shougang Old Industrial Zone is located at the northern end of the north zone of the park. “Shougang’s more than 100-year development has left a large number of industrial remains representing the development merits of the steel industry, which has become the epitome of China’s modern industrial development. It is important to pass On the basis of respecting the original industrial heritage, the West Ten Winter Olympic Plaza Project in Shougang Old Industrial Zone has carried out functional transformation and spatial renewal of the old industrial workshop, and transformed the old industrial workshop in the blast furnace ironmaking material storage area into the office area of the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. It is the first transformation project of Shougang Beijing Park, which re-endows the old industrial buildings with civil functions such as office, conference and supporting services, and stimulates the potential of traditional industrial space. ” Zhao Hongxue of Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd. introduced.
It is understood that the area where the West Ten Winter Olympics Plaza is located was originally the West Ten Yard of Shougang. Beginning in 2005, under the leadership of the Beijing Municipal Government, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Soil Planning began to organize the preparation of the Reconstruction Plan of Shougang Industrial Zone, and at the same time launched five special studies including the Research Report on the Protection and Reuse of Industrial Heritage Resources in Shougang Industrial Zone. In 2014, China Academy of Engineering and Tsinghua University, led by academicians, conducted a special study on Shougang’s urban landscape, exploring the “relationship between tradition and modernity, inheritance and development”. On the basis of actively protecting and utilizing the original industrial remains, they innovatively used the “urban darning” method to integrate new functions, new spaces and new environments that meet the needs of the times. In 2016, the first batch of staff of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Organizing Committee settled in Xishi office area, which greatly promoted the implementation process of Shougang’s transformation and development. In 2017, the Detailed Planning of North Zone of New Shougang High-end Industrial Comprehensive Service Area was approved, which put forward the planning and design concept of “innovation, repair, vitality and ecology”, realized the functional upgrading and ecological transformation of industrial facilities on the premise of retaining the original technological process, and highlighted the historical value, cultural value, ecological value and spatial characteristics of Shougang. The project team insists on “faithful retention” and “cautious addition”, showing static protection..And combining with dynamic renewal, adopting the design methods of darning, linking and sewing, combing the spatial scale relationship of buildings (structures) with people-oriented, and combining industrial remains with modern elements by comparing old and new materials and old spaces, so as to transform the original ironmaking yard and silo into an office space and a cultural show with unique features. On the basis of adhering to the principle of “preserving what can be preserved and using what can be used”, the project team took the lead in creating a new path of “building” and classified protection by “preserving”. Zhao Hongxue said: “We have adopted the protection and utilization strategy of industrial remains in different regions, and defined core protection areas, cultural heritage areas and style coordination areas, so as to guide the transformation and utilization of industrial buildings and structures in the subsequent development of the park and inherit the history and culture of Shougang in the process of urban renewal and development. At present, Shougang Park has been built into three areas: Shijingshan Landscape Park, Winter Olympics Square and Industrial Heritage Park, forming a space carrier of about 940,000 square meters, basically forming a characteristic landscape system of “mountain-water-industrial heritage”, entering the first batch of industrial heritage protection lists in China, becoming a high-end industrial comprehensive service area integrating business, science and technology, sports, cultural tourism and other formats, and a cross-border integrated urban industrial community, effectively serving the people’s better life.
Fu Qiang/photo on New Year’s Eve
Born in the Summer Olympics and prospered in the Winter Olympics, Shougang Park after the Winter Olympics has exerted the brand influence of the Winter Olympics and the attraction of the characteristic industrial style, and actively created a new highland of “first store”, “first show” and “first show”. In addition to ice and snow sports, there are new labels such as service trade fair and Beijing Xishan Yongdinghe Cultural Festival, and more than 400 related activities have been held. In recent years, Shougang Park has also been selected as the national education base concerned about the next generation of party history and national history, the industrial culture research practice education base and the on-site teaching point of education and training in party member, Beijing. Young research teams can be seen everywhere in the park. After enjoying the industrial scene and the historic site of Xianshan, people can also walk into the cultural space of “Reading for All” on the first floor of No.3 Blast Furnace: unique steel bookshelf, “time and space ribbon” surrounding the iron and steel furnace core, pleasing cultural and creative products, attractive “giant furnace coffee”, “blast furnace ice cream” and “steel slag ice cream”, and sit around and talk about the “Double Olympics Cultural Theme Tour Exhibition” held here last year, and they will unconsciously blend in. Multicolored lights decorate industrial remains such as coke ovens, coal bunkers and silos in a cool and beautiful way. Night viewing of exhibitions, night tours of non-legacy products, night listening to music, night reading of books, night enjoying of food … New friends and old friends gather here to collect beautiful things and imagine the future. He Pengbo, Director of Corporate Culture Department (Propaganda Department of Party Committee) of Shougang Group, said that today’s Shougang Park is deeply blended with mountains and rivers, and the historical context and modern civilization interact with each other, which has opened a gorgeous transformation from “industrial rust belt” to “life show” and better served the people’s better life. Shougang will consciously integrate into the functional construction of Beijing’s “four centers”, accelerate the creation of a dynamic space and a hot spot for development facing the future, young people and internationalization, and make Shougang Park a new landmark for urban rejuvenation.
(Zhou Shengjun Zhao Hongxue)