There is a large slope with a length of 200 meters and a slope of 5.5% on the Taitung 3rd Road Pedestrian Street in the center of the old city of Qingdao. The cause of the big slope can be traced back to the urban planning carried out by the Germans who occupied Qingdao 100 years ago: similar to the planning of San Francisco in the United States, they put a regular tic-tac-toe grid on the undulating terrain of Qingdao to establish a prototype town.

Today, even though the pedestrian streets are crowded with people, the slopes are still deserted, because the sloping ground can’t retain neither business nor people. The scenery construction adopts the design idea of sculpting the land, and divides the large slope into two: one third is a slope, which meets the requirements for the setting of emergency lanes, and two thirds become a series of different sizes, various functions, and green trees. The terrace has transformed the originally dry and deserted large slope into a public space that not only belongs to the citizens but also serves the community, adding a complete park to the center of the high-density Qingdao old city.