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Nanhua Glimmer Public Landscape by Atelier Let's and JR Architects Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Atelier Let's and JR Architects acknowledged for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Nanhua Glimmer Public Landscape by Atelier Let's and JR Architects, designed for Pingtung County Government, Pan Men-an. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
More About Nanhua Glimmer Public Landscape
Nanhua Glimmer is a public landscape park in Pingtung, Taiwan. A decommissioned school campus was transformed into an open park for the community and for elderly visitors. The former campus wall was removed, so the new planting and lighting connect with the surrounding streets. Curved concrete retaining walls, finished in terrazzo, echo the patterns of the pineapple fields and the folds of the mountain ridges. A mist facility with fine nozzles waters the plants and recreates the mountain mist. Embedded light strips spread even light at night.
About Atelier Let's and JR Architects
Born to a fisherman's family, when he was young, he travelled around Taiwan and the world with just a suitcase. Expanding his global outlook, he learned the skills for marketing Pingtung. But he always remembered his hometown. He quit his prosperous business and returned to Pingtung. Serving his people, he started from the basic—the township representative, hoping to learn more about the ups and downs of his townsfolk with the temperature close to the land. Now, he has gone through the positions from township representative, council member, to legislator—serving folks as a civil servant. Elected as county mayor, he continues to serve his people and his town.
Award Record
This recognition makes Atelier Let's and JR Architects 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/137296
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/137296
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!137296
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/326028
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.pthg.gov.tw/en/Default.aspx
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Nanhua Glimmer Public Landscape
- Function
- Public Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Olive Drab, Dark Olive Green, Silver, Light Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Pingtung County Government, Pan Men-an
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Atelier Let's and JR Architects
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #137296
Credits
- Team
- Client：Pingtung County Government, Pan, Men-An, Design team：Atelier Let’s + JR Architects, Participants：, Ku, Ta-Chi, Huang, Cho-Jen, Yang, Haw-Jiun, Tai, Ming-Chih, Chan, Ti-Yen, YANG, Tzu-Yin, Lu, Min Hui, Cheng, Chung Ming and Sun, Chieh and others
- Image Credits
- Image #1：Photographer Yuchen Chao,Yuchen Chao Photography,2022 Image #2：Photographer Yuchen Chao,Yuchen Chao Photography,2022 Image #3：Photographer Yuchen Chao,Yuchen Chao Photography,2022 Image #4：Photographer Yuchen Chao,Yuchen Chao Photography,2022 Image #5：Photographer Yuchen Chao,Yuchen Chao Photography,2022 Video：JT VFX STUDIO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The elements of mist and glimmer resemble the collective memory of the locals – at nights, the mountain mist flows along the ridges, creating radiances around the streetlights afar. The natural mountain mist runs through the mahogany forest and pineapple fields. The recreated misty scene brings up the visual memories of gazing afar towards the mountain covered in mist and clouds.
- Inspiration
- The reborn campus celebrates the regional nature features and translates them into geometric forms in the landscape design. The continuous curvature of the concrete retaining walls echoes with the patterns of the pineapple fields and the folds of the mountain ridges.
- Research
- One of our focuses in this project is to develop an aesthetic and recreational irrigating facility. In the initial three months of the project, we investigated the wind direction and environmental conditions of the project site. We worked with local suppliers in developing new irrigating facilities that fulfil two purposes – providing sufficient water to the plants and creating a misty scene inspired by the mountain mists. The mist generating facility is integrated with the lighting system to ensure safety at night.
- Challenge
- Key challenges: 1.Removing the former school campus wall. We negotiated and agreed with the client and authority to open the boundary and introduce lighting for the campus and the community. 2.Retaining the mature trees within the campus. We achieved this by carefully planning the facilities and structural foundations considering the tree roots. 3.Creating a space for all. We designed the space with barrier-free passages and eliminated the height difference across the project site. 4.Controlling the mist effects preciously. We investigated the wind direction and the design of the mist generating facilities to create the misty effect as the design intended.
- Realization and Technology
- The mist generating facility uses the finer spraying nozzles to create a similar texture to mountain mists, irrigating the plants at the same time. The light strips are embedded in the installation, dispersing light evenly across the space. The retaining walls were constructed with traditional materials and the local construction method of terrazzo, providing a sense of familiarity to the audiences.
- Operation and Interaction
- The decommissioned campus has transformed into the Pingtung AI Agriculture Hub with a landscape park for the community and the elderly. It creates a more inviting atmosphere for the locals by opening up the campus boundary and linking the new greenery and lighting with the surrounding. The selected variety of plants within the campus presents an ecological education opportunity for the public, including the edible plants on the green hills and the restoration of aquatic plants in the eco pond.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project locates at No. 1, Shi 1st Rd., Gaoshu Township, Pingtung County 906001 , Taiwan (R.O.C.). The project started in September 2020 in Pingtung and finished in December 2021.
- Keywords
- Nanhua Glimmer, Pingtung, Public, Landscape, Mist, Renovation, Campus, Taimu Mountain
