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Xiashu Shengye Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Open and Wild Greenway in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Xiashu Shengye 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/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Open and Wild Greenway by Xiashu Shengye, designed for Atlas, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category. The award was conferred within 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
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 Open and Wild Greenway
Open and Wild is a public greenway section in Wuhan, China, and forms part of the first phase of the East Lake greenway. The section covers about 310 hectares with Moshan Park at its core. The planning concept, Making the City Quiet, guides a route that leads from the lake to the forest and offers changing spatial experiences. Existing landscape features and roads of Moshan are preserved to retain historical memory. Buildings, lighting, signs, rest facilities and paving are designed in detail. The revetment design protects the water environment and the natural vegetation.
About Xiashu Shengye
Ms. MORIBA joined ATLAS (China) in 2003, and has been working as the design director since then. Working in landscape architecture field for more than 20 years, she has devoted herself to creating space and serving customers and has participated in more than one hundred planning and landscape design projects, who has accumulated rich experience in project design and managemen. Her innovative, unique and humanized design scheme has been widely praised and has won many famous awards. The design works and articles completed by the team she led have been widely published in academic journals and public media both domestic and overseas.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiashu Shengye a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/119245
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/119245
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!119245
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/295635
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.atlaschina.com.cn/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Open and Wild Greenway
- Function
- Greenway
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Saddle Brown, Sienna, Chocolate, Light Blue and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Atlas
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiashu Shengye
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #119245
Credits
- Team
- Natsuki Moriba, Longye Zhongli, Dezhi Kang, Zhibo Wei, Yujie Cao and Hansheng Zhang
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Senwei Xiao
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Wuhan East Lake greenway is a city level public greenway located in Wuhan, whose first phase is divided into four sections, while the Open and Wild is one of those four. The project is located in the center of the East Lake with Moshan Park as the core. With a total land area of about 310 hectares, it is one of the best scenic spots in the East Lake whose supporting construction is relatively mature, and a place where the mark of history is inherited.
- Inspiration
- The design adheres to the planning concept of Making the City Quiet, the mountain, water, capital and city are used as the carrier in order to fulfill the design goal, which is letting people walk in the mountains and rivers, to experience the multi-level space transformation. The core of the design is transforming from the lake to the forest, which is expected to make the users meet in the interwoven space and time of thousands of years, and experience the dialogue between history and today.
- Research
- After careful research, the designers found out that he original Waterfront Livingroom, Jingchu Xiongfeng and Yanbo Yunshan in Moshan park are antiquated with single function, which do not meet the actual needs of greenway. So that when carrying out the detailed planning and design, the designers focus on the cultural heritage of Moshan Park, and combine the historical memory of the park with the new construction needs.
- Challenge
- How to fully show the Open and Wild landscape characteristics of the this place become one of the challenges to the designers. The design focused on two aspects of functional requirements: one is the open scenic area portal, which will make Moshan section a natural ecological landscape miniature of the great beauty East Lake; the second is to design the post station in detail, fully considering the traffic connection, passenger flow distribution, tourists' rest, supporting services, etc.
- Realization and Technology
- In the planning, the designers fully connect the Moshan section with the urban master plan, regional comprehensive transportation planning, municipal special planning and other relevant planning, implements the overall requirements of the East Lake Greenway Construction, highlights the Open and Wild landscape characteristics of the East Lake greenway, and fully reflects the natural ecology, convenience and comfort of the greenway by connecting the surrounding functions of the region.
- Operation and Interaction
- The designers carry on the detailed design to the building, landscape sketch, environmental sanitation lighting, sign facility, rest facility, paving material and so on, to create the landscape space which manifests the ecological characteristic. The ecological protection of the water environment and natural vegetation are also taken into consideration to create an unique exquisite revetment landscape on the basis of not destroying the water environment, ecology and the overall landscape.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is located in Wuhan city, which started designing in 2015 and has been completed in 2018.
- Specifications
- Combined with the original landscape resources and roads of Moshan, this design tries its best to preserve people's historical memory, and focuses on shaping high-level, high-quality and high-grade landscape space, create diversified greenway experience, and provide more comfortable urban public space for citizens, aiming to transform the single park into a multi-functional civic activity center.
- Keywords
- park, greenway, landscape, Wuhan, ATLAS
