The central zone is where the new bird museum is built. It was a degraded coastal wetland as well, adjacent to an intertidal zone that had been listed as a national bird reserve. This site was an abandoned construction site from a former theme park, which destroyed the coastal wetland habitats when built. The site was also covered with building debris and garbage.
Ecological recovery was a strong need, so the landscape architect searched for an idea that could be natural, social and economically sustainable: A Wetland Museum was built on this site as an education facility in association with the bird reserve beyond.
Inspired by the bubble-patterned water sinks along the intertidal zone, water holes are created in among the building debris to catch the rainwater from the land that allows wetland plant and animal communities to get established, also attracting birds to forage. - See more at: http://architypereview.com/project/the-qinhuangdao-beach-restoration-an-ecological-surgery/#sthash.i1XIo9no.dpuf