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Xinpeng Liu Is Honored with the A' Design Award for Moriwei Indoor Landscape in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Xinpeng Liu honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Moriwei Indoor Landscape by Xinpeng Liu, designed for Beijing Moriwei Garden Catering Co., Ltd.. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 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 A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding Moriwei Indoor Landscape
This 230 square meter indoor forest restaurant in Beijing uses walls and ceilings to arrange six green modules, achieving 68 square meters of planting area while occupying only 10 square meters on the ground. The stairwell is turned into a green corridor that guides guests upstairs. Traditional garden techniques are integrated with modern design through shifting scenes and framed views. More than 3000 plants and solid wood elements enable carbon storage. An intelligent system automates irrigation and lighting, balancing aesthetics, function and ecology.
About Xinpeng Liu
我是刘欣鹏，出生于中国南洋市。我致力于景观设计超过十年，打造与环境和谐的户外空间。我认为现代城市通过混凝土和钢铁使人类与自然疏远，作为景观设计师，我应该帮助人们重新连接自然世界。我的工作重点是打造绿色圣地，让城市居民能够在城市生活的混乱中呼吸、反思和找到平静。
Award Record
This recognition makes Xinpeng Liu a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2025 - 2026 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/183445
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/183445
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!183445
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/381203
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Moriwei Indoor Landscape
- Function
- Indoor Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Green, Olive Drab, Dark Slate Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Beijing Moriwei Garden Catering Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xinpeng Liu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #183445
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This 230 square meter landscape transforms a compact second floor restaurant in Beijing into a lush forest. It features 68 square meters of plants with 90% greenery on walls and ceilings, integrating Chinese garden techniques like changing scenery and framed views. Using 3000+ plants and carbon negative wood, it creates low carbon eco design. An intelligent system controls irrigation and lighting. The stairwell becomes a scenic journey attracting guests upstairs. This creates a distinctive dining experience fusing nature, sustainability and technology—a model for urban indoor ecological landscape design.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by Beijing's high rise district lacking greenery, this project creates a natural retreat. The 230 square meter space became a lush forest through Chinese garden principles like changing scenery and framed views. Blending sustainability with high end dining, eco friendly materials create a low carbon landscape. Japanese culture inspired the greenery. The stairwell becomes a scenic journey attracting guests upstairs. Intelligent management ensures sustainability. The result reinterprets traditional aesthetics for modern spaces, delivering an immersive natural dining experience.
- Challenge
- The hardest part was reconciling the large scale forest themed greening demand with the severe physical constraints of the 230 square meter indoor space in Beijing including low ceilings fragmented layout and second floor location The core creative challenge was to create an immersive natural dining experience without sacrificing functional usability which required breaking the conventional flat greening model Externally the limited construction technology for indoor three dimensional greening and strict local environmental requirements for indoor plant survival posed obstacles the lack of mature intelligent maintenance systems for small scale indoor landscapes also added difficulties...
- Realization and Technology
- The design began with in-depth analysis of the 230 square meter space, addressing constraints like low ceilings, fragmented layout and messy pipelines. Volumetric greening utilized walls and ceilings to arrange six plant landscape forms, achieving 68 square meters of greenery using only 10 square meters of ground space while transforming the stairwell into a scenic green corridor. Traditional Chinese garden concepts were integrated innovatively, applying changing scenery with each step and framed views via large internal glass windows for low-height private rooms, resolving oppressiveness.
- Operation and Interaction
- The design operates as a unified indoor landscape system integrating three core interactive modules. The spatial greening module functions passively to create immersive visual and sensory experiences. Layered plant landscapes across walls and ceilings produce dynamic scenery shifts as people move through the space, achieving natural spatial transitions and an immersive forest dining atmosphere. The material utilization module engages with the environment sustainably. Natural wood and living plants continuously sequester carbon while forming a recyclable material cycle, delivering long-term ecological benefits. The intelligent operation module enables both automated and manual interaction.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project is located in Beijing, China. The design work commenced in December 2018 and the construction was completed in July 2019.
- Specifications
- Overall project scale, 230 square meters of indoor space with a total green landscape area of 68 square meters, only 10 square meters of ground occupation. Core technical parameters, the spatial greening system covers nonfunctional areas such as walls and ceilings, creating 6 types of plant landscape modules. The intelligent operation and maintenance system supports remote and automatic irrigation and light supplement, and monitors environmental indicators such as soil temperature and humidity and air humidity in real time.
- Keywords
- Indoor landscape design, Forest themed space, Three dimensional greening, Beijing catering design, Intelligent plant maintenance
