In collaboration with Bureau B+B The Empty Land in Fierljep (far-leaping) Polder and Information Center in Jinzhou, China. The city of Jinzhou is located 270 miles north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 12 miles from the coast. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of the Bonsai Sea. The development includes a park, for which KettingHuls and Bureau B+B built a fierljep polder and an information center. The polder garden was opened during the Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition in 2013. A 10-foot-high dike surrounds the polder and protects the meadows and the ditch system. The polder is vacant, devoid of views and is therefore in contrast to the surrounding park. But before you know it, the polder turns into a playground. Visitors — fathers, mothers, and children — use poles to vault over the ditches, from one field to another. Euphorically projecting themselves onto inaccessible land, the visitors use poles to transport themselves through the polder in accordance with the more than 1,000-year-old tradition of fierljeppen. This spectacle can be seen from the dike: an empty polder transformed into a playground with leaping and laughing people. Visitors enter the polder ...
In collaboration with Bureau B+B The Empty Land in Fierljep (far-leaping) Polder and Information Center in Jinzhou, China. The city of Jinzhou is located 270 miles north of Beijing in the province of Liaoning and lies 12 miles from the coast. The Jinzhou Longqiwan New Area is an urban development on the coast of the Bonsai Sea. The development includes a park, for which KettingHuls and Bureau B+B built a fierljep polder and an information center. The polder garden was opened during the Jinzhou World Landscape Art Exposition in 2013. A 10-foot-high dike surrounds the polder and protects the meadows and the ditch system. The polder is vacant, devoid of views and is therefore in contrast to the surrounding park. But before you know it, the polder turns into a playground. Visitors — fathers, mothers, and children — use poles to vault over the ditches, from one field to another. Euphorically projecting themselves onto inaccessible land, the visitors use poles to transport themselves through the polder in accordance with the more than 1,000-year-old tradition of fierljeppen. This spectacle can be seen from the dike: an empty polder transformed into a playground with leaping and laughing people. Visitors enter the polder ...