QIANJIANG FERRY TERMINAL
HOSPITALITY, CIVIC, COMMERCIAL, CULTURAL
Client Hangzhou Municipal Government
Location Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Program Transportation terminal, waterfront public space, landscape infrastructure
Status Competition, concept, first prize
Location Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Program Transportation terminal, waterfront public space, landscape infrastructure
Status Competition, concept, first prize
Qianjiang Ferry Terminal transforms infrastructure into landscape, creating a new threshold between Chang’ansha, the river, and the larger ecological territory of Hangzhou’s Sanjianghui Green Heart Park.
Rather than conceiving transportation infrastructure as an isolated object, the project integrates arrival, circulation, public space, and landscape into the broader network of Chang’ansha. The terminal becomes part of a continuous system of waterfront promenades, pedestrian bridges, landscape platforms, fields, gardens, and village routes that connects both banks and extends public movement into the surrounding landscape. The project documentation describes this network as a multilayered public pedestrian system in which waterfront walks and bridges connect directly with landscape platforms and agricultural scenery.
Rather than conceiving transportation infrastructure as an isolated object, the project integrates arrival, circulation, public space, and landscape into the broader network of Chang’ansha. The terminal becomes part of a continuous system of waterfront promenades, pedestrian bridges, landscape platforms, fields, gardens, and village routes that connects both banks and extends public movement into the surrounding landscape. The project documentation describes this network as a multilayered public pedestrian system in which waterfront walks and bridges connect directly with landscape platforms and agricultural scenery.
This approach reflects the larger ambition for Chang’ansha: to dissolve conventional boundaries between infrastructure, architecture, and ecology. Bridges are treated not simply as crossings but as landscape experiences. The project develops distinct northern and southern bridge interventions, studied through aerial views, plans, and pedestrian-scale perspectives as integral components of the island-wide design.
The terminal participates in the same distributed infrastructure that supports the landscape as a whole. Small service stations form a network across Chang’ansha for rainwater and waste collection, irrigation and energy management, agricultural storage, and visitor amenities, while larger Energy Houses consolidate waste treatment, resource recovery, energy generation, and water purification.
Qianjiang Terminal therefore operates simultaneously as infrastructure and public landscape: an arrival point that connects movement to the rhythms of the river, the agricultural territory, and the ecological systems of Chang’ansha.
Team
Andrew Heid, Jingjing Wu, Julianna Yang, Praveen Menon, Shiyin Zeng, Tracy Tang, Xianghui Kong, Yoki Luo
Andrew Heid, Jingjing Wu, Julianna Yang, Praveen Menon, Shiyin Zeng, Tracy Tang, Xianghui Kong, Yoki Luo
Collaborators
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, ECOLAND, agenceTER
Distinctions
First Prize
China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, ECOLAND, agenceTER
Distinctions
First Prize