Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape by Ge Qiu

Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape by Ge Qiu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Competition Category.

BronzeCultural Heritage· 2021

Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape

by Ge Qiu

Client: GND Design Limited

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Cultural Heritage Category

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The Design

About Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape

Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza is a landscape renovation project that connects a Hakka ancestral hall with a commercial district in Shenzhen. The plaza covers 5900 square meters. Lingnan cultural elements such as gable walls, bucket arches, blue flagstones, black bricks, tiles, oyster walls and carving patterns are reinterpreted within the landscape design. The gable element landscape walls give out soft light in the evening. The design preserves the historical appearance of the ancestral hall and offers citizens an open square for rest and leisure.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: CoolSymmetry: PartialBackground: Left and Right

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This case is a landscape renovation project that connects the Hakka Ancestral Hall with the commercial district. In the Lingnan area, people live in compact communities, and ancestral halls are the sustenance of family blood ties in villages. So over the years, there has developed a unique ancestral hall culture in the area. In the renovation process of the project, the ancestral hall is taken as an entity in the inheritance of the cultural and a realistic reflection of the historical features.
Dimensions & Packaging: 5900 Sqm
Tags: Culture, Heritage, Landscape, Renovation, Hakka
Production Technology: Modern technologies are applied to maximize the space experience. The gable element landscape walls have fused the rich charms of Lingnan architecture and modern technologies to present the spatial vision of different scenes as we move along, and give the space a unique rhythm. When the evening lights are lit, the landscape walls give out soft light, surrounding, rendering and overlapping with the star lights around.
Design Challenge: In the renovation process of the Shenzhen Vanke Tianyu project, the ancestral hall is taken as an entity in the inheritance of the cultural memory and a realistic reflection of the historical features. It needed to be reasonably developed and updated to keep pace with the times, on the basis of preserving the basic historical appearances.
Research: In the design of this project, the designer integrated the partition of Hakka Ancestral Hall and Commercial Plaza to resolve the conflict between tradition and modernity. The designer uses the city square as an outdoor promotion carrier for Hakka culture. The results are very encouraging. While enhancing the environment, it also serves as a city square for citizens to relax and play.
Inspiration: The project starts with the Lingnan culture and architecture. Through extracting interesting space scenes in daily life and taking comfortable street scale as a design element, it ingeniously brings the elements of rural settlements, pastoral farms, folk custom culture, and architectural symbols into the public areas outside the ancestral hall to integrate the old and new sceneries.
Project Duration: The project finished in December 2019 in Shenzhen.
Operation Flow: The landscape spatial layout is exquisite, enriched from the inside to the outside. It makes clever use of the Lingnan characteristic cultural elements, such as the gable walls, bucket arches, blue flagstones, black bricks, tiles, oyster walls, farm tools, Lingnan carving patterns and glaze mosaics and, through design remodeling, melts them into the landscape design.
Team Members: Ge Qiu
Yongcheng Zhong
Bing Li
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.