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Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Goes to Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape by Ecoland
Ecoland recognized 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 confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape by Ecoland, designed for ECOLAND Planning and Design Corp.. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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.
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.
More About Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape
Zhonghai Tianyu Garden is a residential landscape in the Hunnan District of Shenyang, China. The garden is arranged as a series of outdoor rooms that serve as gathering spaces for residents. Straight lines define an entrance gallery and a quiet central courtyard. Screen walls, water features and ballet inspired sculptures connect interior and exterior areas. A shallow reflecting pool can be drained in winter to reveal granite paving for further activity. Local trees such as Chinese ash, Siberian apricot, ginkgo and maple suit the cold climate.
Award Record
Ecoland 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/120333
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/120333
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!120333
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/298592
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.ecoland-plan.com/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape
- Function
- Residential Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Royal Blue, Black, Dark Slate Blue, Teal and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- ECOLAND Planning and Design Corp.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ecoland
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #120333
Credits
- Team
- David Yuezhong Chen, Xiao Mo, Weimin Tian, Tingqian Chen, Yuanxin Yang, Zhenming Wang
- Image Credits
- UNO-PHOTO, Waterscape and sculpture are opposite，2018; UNO-PHOTO,Landscape entrance，2018; UNO-PHOTO, Fountain water view and partition window，2018; UNO-PHOTO, Waterscape and plants form a contrast，2018; UNO-PHOTO, Modeling tree and stepped waterscape，2018
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Zhonghai Tianyu Garden is located in the newly developed town center in the Hunnan District of Shenyang, China, about one kilometer away from the Shenyang Municipal Center and convenient to local transportation. There are large commercial areas, urban ecological parks, and the Liaoning Provincial Library within close proximity. The final product illustrates what can be achieved when designer, contractor and client work together as a team. The garden was conceived as a collection of outdoor rooms that serve as a community gathering place for the residents, featuring multiple leisure and entertainment spaces to create a beautiful environment suitable for living, recreation, and work.
- Inspiration
- The designer took inspiration from the elegant artistic features of ballet and the rational lines found in the classic paintings of Piet Mondrian. These two elements are combined to build a geometric residential garden with a sense of modern simplicity and sensuality. A collection of ballet-inspired sculptures sets a continuous tone throughout the garden rooms and are placed at the entry, the central courtyard and in a transitional indoor/outdoor space.
- Research
- Located near the entrance of the broader community, it has been designed to integrate with the housing nearby, and provide more generous spaces for social, fitness, entertaining and other activities, as well as connect the clubhouse and terrace with the public lawns and water features. A collective vision reimagines a blank site into a setting that celebrates a timeless sense of place. Plants, pathways and water features form thoughtful gathering spaces that combine a strong appreciation for regional ecology and climate to creatively blur the lines between indoor and outdoor space.
- Challenge
- The site location near the center of a bustling city district, it is a big challenge for designers to create a quiet and leisure space for residents in the community. The space is divided with straight lines to build an artful entrance gallery and a quiet leisure center courtyard within a densely populated residential area. Airy and dynamic screen walls are used consistently within the gardens to blur the lines between interior and exterior spaces allowing glimpses of views from one courtyard to the next. Sunlight passing through these screen walls also facilitates a play of light and shadow across the plants, paving, and water surfaces.
- Realization and Technology
- The Garden is divided with straight lines to build an artful entrance gallery and a quiet leisure center courtyard within a densely populated residential area. These three different sculptures add a playful elegance to the landscape and absorb the attention of the pedestrians, subtly guiding them through the spaces. The central ballet sculpture gracefully revolves on a reflective pool of water, and brings inspiration, meaning, and soul into the courtyard. Vegetation is planted to enhance the sense of geometrical space in the residential garden, making the landscape views more versatile by emphasizing spatial relationships.
- Operation and Interaction
- The garden uses the rational lines of the classic paintings of Piet Mondrain to create and enclose the space, forming an art entrance gallery and central courtyard that accommodates various functions, with consideration to the movement of light and shadows. The design fuses plants with water, walls, and sculptural elements into a sequence of light and contrast that form a rich spatial level of diversity within a relatively small space. A primary intention of the garden design was to seamlessly blend the connections between indoor and outdoor spaces by creating outdoor living rooms for the residents to enjoy.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in 2018 in Hunnan District, Shenyang, China and finished in May 2019.
- Specifications
- It covers area of about 25535 square meters，landscape design area of 20,900 square meters.
- Keywords
- Art community, modernism, fashion, sculpture, high quality
