The design of the park echoes influences and inputs from many sources both known and unknown. The overall design is inspired by a long chamber shell that we saw on the 5th day of the trip at the Shell Museum in Cijin.
The park is a large earthen mound sloping up over 12 feet toward the center, and the overall diameter of the area is 50 feet. A central bench invites you to move towards the ocean, passing through a tight center “between 12-foot-high” walls.
This area then opens up to another bench and the pearl, as well as a clear view of the Pacific. The vertical walls of the mound are covered by mosaics of red clay bricks that come from one of the oldest kilns in the region. During the closing ceremony the students preformed an opera they created showing how nature, (specifically a typhoon in this story), can either divide us or bring us together.
