Public facility design II



Xindu central park located in the district with a significant amount of human flow every day and is the target location of this project. As designers, we wanted to propose a series of public facilities design that suits this park.


Through this project, we want to explore the relationship between public facilities and the urban ambiance. We always put users in the center of the design and try to use the public facilities design to shape the inhabitants' everyday life.



Form language



This series of public facilities design was inspired by an architect Zaha Hadid; her

parametric architecture and organic forms. We combined the traditional Chinese

concept "Shan Shui" (mountain-water) with the organic forms. Shan Shui paintings

use special brushstroke to depic and express the feeling of nature. Our purpose is

to create a place where people can escape from the fast pace city.



Users



Cleaners



Not only visitors who throw trash to the can, cleaners who clean the trash can are also the

users of it. Cleaners are invisible users of a trashcan. City cleaners clean many trash cans

a day, to make the trash can easier to

clean is one of our goals.

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Visitors



Visitors are the most visible users of trash cans.





Make trash can easier to clean



To us, cleaning a trash can might be simple. But city cleaners need to clean many of them every day, and it's a heavy work to do for them. In this product design, our solution for it is shortening the cleaning process of a trash can. We came up with the system consisting of a bottom can be opened trash can and a cleaning cart, which is used to remove trash. With this system, the leaning process can be shortened to three steps from four, which could save a lot of work for city cleaners.



open



take out



put back



close



push



Push the cleaning cart to the trash can



open



Open the trash can and empty it



close



Close the trash can after loading the cleaning cart





City oasis



The form language of the trash can design is consistency with the rest of the series. The "Shan Shui" inspired organic shape brings natural vibes to the central park, creating a isolated oasis in the center of the city, where people can have a rest from the fast pace.





Signage system



The signage design is inspired by the shape of pebbles in a river, bringing nature feelings to public facilities. We also integrated a lighting system inside each sign, so the public signs could also be used as lighting sources for the park during night.





Public bench



This is another public bench proposal for the central park.









Type



Product design, Public facilities.


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Team



Jingyuan Zhang, Hui Xu

Student project: 8 weeks



My role



Field research, Design research, Concept development, Sketch, 3D modelling, Rendering, Presentation