By Yu Zhiyuan, Director and Design Director of China Project Department of NITA Group

"Creative" is a special term popular in the design industry nowadays and appears in various media.

In the case of the Expo Park, how to be creative is a great challenge. Every designer expects his/her products to be unique and hopes he/she can bring better products to customers. This can be regarded as the social responsibility of a designer.

We find that when a kind of balance is broken, another kind of balance is possible to be created. For example, we plant arbores in the form of large matrixes in the Expo Park. Here, the trees are not pure green plants but a kind of device that provides a feeling of experience. The tree is translated from a passive viewed object to an active subject creating the space, which really expresses the strong power of nature. This experience is beyond the imagination of the masses, and such an enormous size echoes with the Huangpu River, Nanpu Bridge and Lupu Bridge to create a new balance.

The whole wide park is controlled by several simple elements. Its uniform and simple formation is clear at a glance. The arbor framework, colorful ground cover, smooth curve and riverside corridor push the visitors' sight to the Huangpu River, and the extension and rise of the terrain present a panorama, which indicates the intention and inspiration of the designers naturally and discloses the place meaning of the park fully.

Spirituality and naturalism are banging with each other here, and the passion bursting out is just the so-called "waterfront green space, urban green space, and World Expo green space".