Press Release
Lixian Future Community Mixed Use Development by Gad Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Gad for urban planning and urban design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Urban Planning and Urban Design category for Lixian Future Community Mixed Use Development by Gad, designed for The Promotion Office of Lixian Future Community. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 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 scored 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.
About Lixian Future Community Mixed Use Development
Lixian Future Community is an urban design plan for a mixed use district in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The plan places a platform above the traditional transportation level, where garden landscapes are arranged. Community groups are set in small blocks of low density with abundant planting, creating a pleasant spatial scale. A neighborhood center is combined with a bus terminal to form a transit oriented system that connects all nodes. The architecture joins traditional and futuristic elements and supports active street life.
About Gad
As an atypical design studio born in the transformation of rapid development of Chinese architecture design revolution, gad now is one of the most influential design companies countrywide. Instead of mass production, gad would rather choose to slow down and search for the existing significance of every space. A group of energetic and thoughtful young people gather together here to give rise to tons of interesting and fresh ideas. Now gad cooperates with insightful proprietors from diverse fields like hotel design, housing design, theater design and so on to boost new ideas for architecture, which at the same time, encourages itself to step into a better design world.
Award Record
Gad is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' City Planning and Urban Design Award
The A' Urban Design Award is an international urban design competition recognizing good urban plans and designs by best urban planners and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to urban planning designers, urban architects, city planners and urban designers from all countries. Entries typically include masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts and urban renewal projects. Awarded urban plan designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/urban-planning
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://desingers.org/114520
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/114520
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!114520
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/290553
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lixian Future Community Mixed Use Development
- Function
- Mixed Use Development
- Category
- Urban Planning and Urban Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- The Promotion Office of Lixian Future Community
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Gad
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #114520
Credits
- Team
- Wei Zhang, Xuan Wu;, Chun Li, Nuowa Xiehan, Liyang Zhang, Yin Cheng, Yu Zhang, Chendong Zhu, Qian Jiang; and Lei Xie, Yilong Li, Chenguang Sheng, Weigang Zhi, Xiaoyu Sun, Longfeng Lin, Huan Huang, Baozhe Zhang, Weidong Wang, Junjie Zheng, Yanping Yang.
- Image Credits
- gad
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This project attempts to construct a platform above the traditional transportation level, function as various garden landscapes.All community groups would be arranged in rhythmic orderings of low density,small block and abundant landscape to create a pleasant spatial scale.The architectural features have both the traditional and futuristic elements.Lixian community tries to dig out the street life to achieve a scenario of cosmopolitism where full of green, a land of idyllic beauty.
- Inspiration
- Profound and lasting Chinese culture can be traced to the same origin. Confucianism takes cosmopolitism as the ideal status of society development. In cosmopolitism society, kids or youth would be well cared and educated, adults would have corresponding labour income, patients or vulnerable group would be cured, elder could be looked after, everyone has got the right place and satisfaction. Lixian community takes cosmopolitism as the design theme to explore an ideal community.
- Research
- Quzhou is located in the southeast of the Zhejiang province where not only has abundant landscape resources but also a famous cultural city with a long history and a shrine of southern Confucianism. Lixian community is adjacent to the central old neighborhood of Quzhou, where habitat condition needs to be upgraded thus the local government as the leading force has been eager to renew or reform these areas to create a unique future community atmosphere , based on people’s love and yearning for a better life.
- Challenge
- The huge mass of the residential architecture could lack spatial scales of humanity, isolating us from nature, alienating interpersonal relationship. Our exploration mainly relies in what could be the future living way suited for China? During the design process, the key is to achieve the “three aspects” (humanization, ecologicalization, digitization) that contain “nine future scenes”: neighborhood, education, health, business, architecture, transportation, low-carbon, service and governance. Another key to the success of this project is the collaboration between the urban design team and the architecture team.
- Realization and Technology
- TOD mode is one of the essential highlights in the Lixian community, the local bus network would be connected to the bus terminal intergrating the neighborhood center, which would also organize the possible nurseries, rest home, entrepreneur hub or multifunctional space with specific cautious-planned civic infrastructures. Those elements together would create a complete TOD system that connects all the nodes and they are important parts to structure a whole Lixian community.
- Operation and Interaction
- Along the river there is a talent persons’ apartment, with a neighborhood center, bus terminals, or distinctive commercial programming in the lower floor. This project aims to strengthen the pride of servers by providing superior location, best landscape resources, better employment prospects and opportunities, as reward for their better service in future scenes. The development of Lixian culture will be made possible by improving and accentuating the importance of servers.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in July 2019. It is located in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
- Specifications
- Research area: about 100 hectares, Core area: about 28.8 hectares. Core area GFA: 644416 square meters.
- Keywords
- Future community, Neighborhood center, TOD Complex, Prefabricated building module, Urban design, Building lifecycle management.
