Endless Intent in a Public GardenThe Design Language of the Pheasant Garden in Beijing Zoo
This paper analyzes the layout,tourism space,logistics space,visual elements and material construction of the Pheasant Garden of Beijing Zoo,a landscape building in China of the 1970s and 1980s.Explores the designers'superb skills in dealing with the relationships between the site and architecture,animal living and human viewing,managers and users,publicity and roaming sense,traditional construction techniques and garden spatial imagery.On this basis,it demonstrates that a group of architects trained before the reform and opening-up policies began to consciously integrate the"endless intent"of traditional gardens with the architectural language of modernist flowing spaces as a rare early example of garden landscape architecture in the reform era.