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Cloud Mansion Landscape by Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng acknowledged for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Cloud Mansion Landscape by Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng, designed for NCD Studio Pte Ltd, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Cloud Mansion Landscape
Cloud Mansion is a landscape design for a commercial site of 5,080 square meters in Lishui. The design captures the intuitive qualities of clouds: lightness, cleanliness, floating and transparency. Dislocated feature walls, hollowed feature walls and transparent blocks soften the sense of enclosure at the boundaries. Ultra-white glass, dark gray transparent glass and rainbow glass provide different degrees of permeability. A waterscape with a black marble base reflects the sky. Long gray marble benches offer places to rest.
About Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng
Zhang Jiayuan, a non-party personage, is one of the founding partners of NCD Studio Pte Ltd. In the period of 2012-2016, I served as the Chief Designer of Hangzhou Jiangnan Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd., participating and instructing the landscape design of over 30 projects. I have been working as the Design Director in NCD Studio Pte Ltd. since 2016. In 2019, I was invited to be the expert judge of Shanghai Competition Area of the Golden Reel Award. In 2020, I was invited by Kincang Group to work as the Chief Designer of global customized works.
Award Record
Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Landscape Planning and Garden Design Award
The A' Landscape Design Award is an international landscape design competition recognizing good landscape designs by leading architects and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Typical entries include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. The awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/115739
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/115739
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!115739
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/295385
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.ncdsla.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Cloud Mansion Landscape
- Function
- Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Light Slate Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- NCD Studio Pte Ltd
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jiayuan Zhang and Zhi Cheng
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #115739
Credits
- Team
- Jiayuan Zhang, Zhi Cheng and Kailing Xu
- Image Credits
- Photographer Wang Xiao, Cloud Mansion, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In this case, a modern minimalist landscape design, the design team creates an integrated business loop motion line in a limited space of 5,080 square meters, while managing to keep the privacy of the inner space from disturbances. Applying the space partition technique, it ensures transparency and soft transition, and fosters an independent atmosphere and emotional value.
- Inspiration
- The design puts aside concrete symbols and captures the most intuitive features of clouds: light, clean, floating, and transparent. By comparing the textures and color assortment of multiple materials, it catches the common characters between artificial materials and the natural environment in the above characteristics, and forges a quiet and light site in the spatial temperament.
- Research
- Because of the small size of the site, the owner wanted the project to be visually open to achieve internal and external views, but also spatially distinct to ensure a quiet atmosphere and a sense of quality inside. The design captures the most intuitive characteristics of clouds: lightness, cleanliness, floating and permeability. We compared the textures and colour schemes of various materials, looking for commonalities between the artificial materials and the natural environment to create a site that is quiet and light in its spatial quality.
- Challenge
- The site available for the demonstration area is very small and does not fully meet the owner's requirements: the conflict between function and aesthetics, spatial attributes and commercial value is played out throughout the design process. In the end, a certain degree of commercial openness was sacrificed in exchange for the integrity and independence of the site. The designers ensured a complete commercial migration line while making the internal spaces as private and undisturbed as possible.
- Realization and Technology
- The design team devises a box space on each boundary, for display or rest. These boxes echo with the main building in the center to add fun. The dislocated feature walls, hollowed feature walls and transparent blocks are interspersed to clear up the dimension sense of the enclosure boundaries. Meanwhile, ultra-white glass, dark gray transparent glass and rainbow glass are used to meet the needs of different angles and permeability. The waterscape takes up most of the space, where the calm water surface, with a black marble base, reflects the sky scene like a mirror, giving off a quiet space temperament.
- Operation and Interaction
- The space, rectangular in the master plan, has a main entrance and a secondary entrance that are separated by a logo wall circled around by a waterscape. The gray and white colors are cleverly matched to make the space look simple and yet imposing, exhibiting high quality. Visitors may take a short rest in the space behind the logo wall, and enjoy a panoramic view of the area. While allowing people to take the load off their feet, the long gray marble benches complement the waterscape in front.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2020 in Lishui and finished in November 2020 in Lishui.
- Specifications
- The area is 5080 sqm.
- Keywords
- Landscape, Modern, Minimalist, Transparency, Cloud
