Dingxin Tea Garden Commercial by Yiping Yu and Shuangwu He Wins the A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design

The Work

Project

Dingxin Tea Garden Commercial

Function

Commercial

Category

Landscape Planning and Garden Design

Discipline

Spatial Design

Industry

Architecture and Sustainability

Colors

Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dark Sea Green and Gray

Images

5

Client

Chongqing Haofeng Planning and Design Group Co., Ltd

The Recognition

Laureate

Yiping Yu and Shuangwu He

Country

China

Recognition

A' Design Award

Edition

2020 - 2021

Design ID

#109635

Credits

Team

Yiping Yu, Shuangwu He, Huadong Zhang, Haijiang Fan and Zengyi Zhao

Design Details

Unique Properties

With the design principles of ecology and harmony, the tea garden not only boasts aesthetic perception, but also integrates science, ecology and commerce. It embodies extensive and profound tea culture in tea planting, tea picking, tea making, tea watching and tea tasting, making itself the first tea industrial complex in Chongqing. The project presents a natural temperament of lightness with distance and fragrance with freshness, offering a secluded paradise with natural scenery for people.

Inspiration

Inspired by the environment, regional culture, connotation of tea culture, the idea of "unity of nature and human beings" and the construction essence of Chinese gardens, we integrate the mountain, water and tea together to form a space with life characteristics. By doing this, the seemingly randomly distributed architecture groups are united to form the most fascinating scenery of tea fields.

Research

With the design principles of ecology and harmony, the tea garden not only boasts aesthetic perception but also integrates science, ecology and commerce. It embodies an extensive and profound tea culture in tea planting, tea picking, tea making, taking charge of tea and tea tasting. It presents a natural temperament of lightness with distance and fragrance with freshness, offering a secluded paradise with natural scenery. Now, it has become popular on social networks and become a famous site for people to take photos in Chongqing.

Challenge

The site is a large tea field, but there were concerns that construction on the tea field might cause environmental damage. The original site was located under the pond, in an attempt to minimize the damage to nature. However, the owner worried that it lacked appeal to tourists, so the architecture was put above the pond and distributed around it. With "falling tea leaves" as the concept, the architecture is designed as leaves falling on the tea field. After rounds of plan refining, the spatial arrangement is basically determined. Each building is laid out horizontally along the contour line of the tea field, leading the viewer's vision to the distant mountain behind the plank road.

Realization and Technology

The design is made based on the following four aspects to create a unique modern mountain landscape architecture. 1. Water system layout: The architecture is built by the water and connected by water landscapes of different size. More attention is paid to the creation of water landscapes in the entrance space and people's experience of observing water landscapes from different dimensions while walking in the architecture. 2. View of the mountain: The shape and landform of the mountain where the architecture is located are rooted in local conditions.

Operation and Interaction

Dingxin Tea Garden, blessed with an excellent natural environment, is an elaborately designed promised land. It is quiet and natural with a fresh charm. Boiling and tasting tea in the tea mountain, you will feel "the dust is suddenly cleared, as if by the breeze that comes from your heart". Here, mountains, water and tea are blended into a harmonious and interdependent whole, forming a living space and the most beautiful scenery of tea fields. Picking, making and tasting tea, climbing the tea mountain and strolling around the tea fields, every visitor can get a sweeping view of verdant green and experience the authentic pastoral life.

Project Duration and Location

The project finished in March 2018 in Ersheng Town, Chongqing. It covers an area of some 24,200 square meters.

Specifications

Adaptation to local conditions is the focus of our design for this place. The architecture is built in accordance with the characteristics of the mountains. Efforts are made to conform to the rise and fall of the mountains to organically enclose and form mountain yards. We also take advantage of elevation differences to make sure that every building has an excellent view. The architecture is built along waters and space is organized with water as the visual center. The overall layout seems to be scattered but actually centers around waters, and a cohesive effect is formed from the architectural space towards the central waterscape.

Keywords

The first tea industrial complex in Chongqing, connotation of tea culture, Harmony between man and nature