Running Illuminates City

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Marathon route starts from Tiananmen Square and passes through famous sites such as Tiantan Park, Zhongguancun Street, Tsinghua University and National Stadium. With the end of the Olympic Games, this route once again became a "gray" transportation infrastructure. The nature of the land on both sides is limited, and there is no space for large-scale reconstruction and development. Therefore, how to skillfully adopt a minimum interference intervention to redefine and functionalize the “green” of this gray infrastructure is the focus of our attention. Based on the research and evaluation sites, we have combined the Beijing Marathon track to form a “multi-loop system” of running tracks and slow running systems, and then set points around the ring to combine green spaces and venues to provide residents for exercise and communication.
The walking of pedestrians on urban roads, driving of cars, and operation of subways all generate vibrations.  The device collecting the vibration energy will be arranged along the line and converts the energy into electricity for road lighting, green belt irrigation, and activity facilities. While achieving "grey" to "green", energy collection, power conversion, lighting of lights, and watering of plants will all be fed back to the user's APP through specific data generated by interactive devices, in order to motivate the public to actively participate in public welfare campaigns.