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U.P. Space Landscape Design Receives the Golden A' Design Award for Guomaofu Residential Demonstration in Landscape Planning and Garden Design

The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes U.P. Space Landscape Design for landscape planning and garden design

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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Guomaofu Residential Demonstration by U.P. Space Landscape Design, designed for Panfu Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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.

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.

Regarding Guomaofu Residential Demonstration

Guomaofu is a landscape design for a residential development in Tangshan, Hebei, China. The project covers 7650 square meters, of which 5050 square meters are landscaped. The design draws on the imperial gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties and on the natural gardening methods of Jiangnan gardens. A central axis paved with white marble is lined with two rows of trees set in pools of water. Winding paths follow the water, and outdoor tables and chairs are placed at the waterside for residents to rest. The path home is arranged in five spatial levels.

About U.P. Space Landscape Design

U.P.Space, as the first design institution in China to put forward the concept and method of sustainable landscape design, insists on leading the ecological landscape industry and has made outstanding achievements for more than ten years. Based on the further and continuous research and development of its product "Sponge City Cell - Rain Garden", the company has opened the road of ecological landscape innovation, and has developed more than ten patented technologies as the sustainable design foundation for long-term development, including LID, Rain Garden, Natural Waterscape Creation, Nature-engaging Experience Space, Low-carbon Materials, Nature-engaging Design, and Low Landscape...

Award Record

With this recognition, U.P. Space Landscape Design is 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Guomaofu Residential Demonstration
Function
Residential Demonstration
Category
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Sustainability
Colors
Light Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Black, Dark Olive Green and Gainsboro
Images
5
Client
Panfu Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.

The Recognition

Laureate
U.P. Space Landscape Design
Country
China
Recognition
Golden A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#136599

Credits

Team
Zou Yubo, Wang Ming, Tan Binjie, Lin Zhangyi, Huang Jing, Liu Lun, Li Shuo, Song Bowen, Xin Guangyu, Chen Shuzhen
Image Credits
Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021

Design Details

Unique Properties
Guomaofu not only has a profound cultural origin of royal garden, but also has a unique concept of modern landscape. It not only inherits the elegant and natural taste of Jiangnan gardens, but also highlights the axis, emphasizes symmetry, focus on the relationship between master and subordinate, and shows the royal garden temperament of magnificence, nobility and elegance. Under the premise of reasonable function and structure, pay attention to the presentation of the four seasons landscape.
Inspiration
The core idea of creating scenery in Guomaofu is to create a poetic and picturesque space, which injects a brand-new oriental style into the design and spreads the context of Chinese traditional aesthetics. Combine the natural landscape of famous mountains and rivers with the imperial palace with strict etiquette. Shows the cultural pursuit of modern Chinese residents who are "the great scenes are speechless and inconspicuous".
Research
Considering the overall adoption of the new Chinese style in the Guomaofu, the landscape design extracted a five-fold ritual sequence from the famous royal garden painting "A Wonderland on Fang-hu Island": Washing Dust, Entering Hall, Lake Pavilion, Visiting Garden, and Painting, planning the path home into five spatial levels, layer by layer. The deign creates a poetic and picturesque space with modern aesthetics, and injects a brand-new oriental style into the design.
Challenge
The project needs a clear sense of homecoming ritual, and pay attention to privacy and security. Thus, the design integrate humanization, the winding path of natural garden, natural water system, romantic garden into the community life. Learn from the royal gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the one hand, absorb the natural gardening techniques of Jiangnan gardens, and on the other hand continue to express strict etiquette and noble temperament.
Realization and Technology
Two rows of welcome trees in the pool are set up on both sides of the axis road decorated with white marble, with green color, gurgling water and linear streamline space. The road meandering along the water, winding path going far away. Outdoor tables and chairs are set up by the waterside for residents to take a nap. You can also visit the garden along the road, watching the water and enjoying the flowers.
Operation and Interaction
The design respect not only historical landscapes, but also humanistic care. With culture as the canvas and design as the pen, Guomaofu combines the new Chinese-style oriental garden landscape of water, stone, forest, pine, book, tea and music to form a unique poetic landscape garden system. Creating a tourist, feasible, hopeful and livable landscape, as if through a thousand years, reproducing the wind of leisurely and natural life.
Project Duration and Location
The project started in April 2020 and finished in October 2020 in Tangshan, Hebei, China.
Specifications
Total area of this project is 7650 square meters including 5050 square meters of landscape.
Keywords
Landscape, Residential, Garden, Biophilic

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