The new public space by COFCO is created to connect the adjacent mixed use development of Joy City with Baozixi Park in Wuhan, China. Acting as an 'ecology line', the design consists of a public promenade that subtly connects a string of five lightweight, elegant pavilions to one another with a series of substantial civic social spaces that are programmed to foster interaction and collaboration from the nearby metro station arrival to the adjacent Joy City. Together, the promenade, pavilions and open civic spaces weave the park into a unique place, creating a vibrant community asset, and providing a rich and modern identity for this new 21st-century district.

The 26,500sqm development sits in a highly constrained site bordered by primary roads to the north and east, parkland to the south and west, and with metro infrastructure below the response was to provide a protected, low-level yet visible, dynamic series of public spaces that could knit together the hard edged high-rise urban fabric to the east with the natural environment and human scale greenery to the west.