When it comes to service areas, what do you think of?
“Temporary stops filled with noisy passers-by and expensive eats”
The Yangcheng Lake service area on the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway is a collection of garden-style buildings and shopping malls. Once it is in operation, it has maxed out major platforms such as Douyin. It has become popular all over the country. It is known as the most beautiful high-speed service area in China. stars.
Garden style theme service area
The Yangcheng Lake garden-style theme service area has a total construction area of 50,000 square meters, with the goal of “National First, International Leading”, the design concept of “Dream of Water Town, Poetry and Painting Jiangnan”, and “One Street, Three Gardens” as its characteristics.
The renovation of the main building in the Yangcheng Lake service area closely follows the style of Suzhou gardens. The overall facade adopts the abstract lines of Wu Guanzhong’s water town ink painting, extracts and re-realizes them.
Through the construction of large-scale external waterscapes, the herringbone slope skyline with white walls and black tiles, and the trees and shrubs in the front and back of the house, the “dream” of China’s water town is formed as a whole. Finally, the goal of “seeing the scenery of Suzhou without entering Suzhou City” is achieved.
The service area draws on the characteristic connotations of Lingering Garden, Humble Administrator’s Garden, and Lion Grove, and has four miniature gardens of Hanbi, Hefeng, Osmanthus osmanthus, and Xiuzhu, which fully demonstrate the charm of Suzhou gardens. Entering the room, there are pavilions, terraces, pavilions, gurgling water, blue sky and white clouds on the ceiling, and a landscape river channel with a width of 8 meters and a length of 140 meters in the middle divides the whole space into two parts.
Glasses-free 3D visual micro-movies were displayed in the pavilion on the landscape street, which attracted many people to stop and watch. Arch bridges, eaves, stages, pavilions… Small bridges and flowing water, the overall space design incorporates a large number of Soviet-style architectural elements.
Service area with back garden
Not only the interior decoration of the service area is exquisite, but also the exterior is thoughtful. Many configurations have broken the inherent impression of tourists on the service area.
Entering through the small door on one side, there is actually a back garden behind. Those who don’t know it thought they had stumbled into a small garden by mistake. However, the back garden is still under construction, and the corridors, pavilions, rockery, shrubs, etc. have been roughly formed. How soon should it be open.
Service area with robots
The robot-themed restaurant is another highlight of the service area. The novel serving experience gives people the thrill of being in a sci-fi movie. There is no menu here, all the ingredients are in the glass room on the first floor, and you can wait on the second floor after you choose. The serving robot can identify obstacles and actively give way to avoid dish overturning.
The robot-themed restaurant is just a small technology application in the Yangcheng Lake service area. The unfinished 3,000-square-meter science and technology museum will be themed on robots and have comprehensive functions such as science popularization, interactive entertainment, and product release. The service area will then become a popular science education base. .
Service area for the integration of culture and tourism
The Kunqu opera performance at 2 pm every day is a window for the current service area to show traditional culture to tourists. The soft and melodious aria, the swaying and graceful figure, and the classic “Mountain Peach Red” attracted passers-by to stop.
At present, there is still a 3,000-square-meter intangible cultural heritage museum that has not yet opened. When it opens, there will be a comprehensive display of various intangible cultural heritages including Su embroidery, Song brocade, fan surface, wood carving, nuclear carving, root carving, etc. Traditional and modern Combine. Suzhou has always been known as the perfect combination of classical and modern, and the Yangcheng Lake service area also brings the same feeling to tourists. While showing people the long-standing traditional culture, it also uses powerful technology to show tourists her inclusiveness.
The service area of Foodie Paradise
As we all know, the food in the service area is notoriously expensive and unpalatable. The Yangcheng Lake service area has introduced 51 catering brands, including not only the dine-in restaurants in the service area on the first floor, but also the snacks and snacks on the outside, which are like a small shopping mall. Although the price has increased slightly, the increase has not been large.
What’s more worth mentioning is that, in addition to catering and snacks, the service area also has MINISO, fruit shops, cat poop coffee, supermarkets… The Yangcheng Lake service area has completely changed everyone’s stereotyped impression of the service area and has successfully transformed into a tourist attraction in Suzhou. sights.
epilogue
In many cities, it is often easy to ignore the significance of service areas. A service area can often determine a tourist’s impression of a city. Now the huge demand for self-driving tours has given birth to the scenic byway system. Scenic roads integrate more landscape and service elements, and combine transportation with traditional tourist attractions and communities (cities, towns, and villages) along the way to form a new field. In the future, which city’s scenic byway system has a high degree of recognition will occupy more market share for self-driving tours.
Source: Travel Planning Observation
