Press Release
Hu Sun - S.P.I Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Hu Sun - S.P.I for landscape planning and garden design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area by Hu Sun - S.P.I, designed for Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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 Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area
Guiyang New Community Park is a public park in Guiyang, China. The park covers 130000 square meters beside the Laoma River. Interventions on the site were kept to a minimum, and most existing trees and ground covers were retained. Farming terraces were reintroduced using traditional construction methods. Low dry walls, stairs, paths and a large amphitheatre were built with local limestone. The design offers leisure areas for people of all ages while preserving the karst landform and the seasonal changes of the river.
About Hu Sun - S.P.I
The Founder, Chairman, Chief Designer of Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., Ltd graduated from Nanjing Forestry University, he has more than 20 years of experience in landscape architecture design. He has presided over nearly 100 international and domestic landscape planning and landscape design projects and has won many international and domestic awards. He believed that the landscape could settle people’s hearts by creating a comforting zone. Then, he created the New Shanshui Design Concept, which is the natural spirit and cultural value rooted in landscapes.
Award Record
With this recognition, Hu Sun - S.P.I is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2021 - 2022 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. 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://desingers.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://desingers.org/130226
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130226
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130226
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/203683
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xUZgYwyIphlVbcizLX0DsA
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area
- Function
- Residential Exhibition Area
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Black and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hu Sun - S.P.I
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130226
Credits
- Team
- Hu Sun, Duanlian Nie, Ya Xiao, Kun Shi, Yang Lei, Yuting Pan, Hao Zhou, Shu Chen and Yanfang Chen
- Image Credits
- Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project provides a novel solution for the community park in Guiyang, China. A resilient design with a minimum of intervention that respects the site and highlights the local karst geography and former land use. As a result, the community park successfully integrates a program of leisure activities for the public with the preservation of karst landscape formations on the one hand and a waterfront design to support the dynamic hydrological processes on the other.
- Inspiration
- The site is located in Guiyang adjacent to Laoma River. Situated within undulating karst hills, the area previously unfolded a typical Asian scenery with green mountains, terraces, and blue rivers with sampan fishing boats. Only recently, the site context developed into a new urban district. The designer’s main objective in this project is to preserve and emphasize the existing landscape character. Additionally, the park should provide attractions to promote the connection between human beings and nature.
- Research
- The landscape design reasonably plans the site, and provides important theoretical supports for protecting the original ecology of the site and reducing the amount of earthwork from the aspects of function layout, resource protection, cultural landscape protection, ecological diversity and landscape effect. In ecological design, the original trees and herbs are retained to reduce the restoration cost of ecological balance.
- Challenge
- The karst topology and proximity to the Laoma river determine the parameters for the design. There is, for example, an elevation difference of 45 meters within the site boundary to overcome. Hence the slopes inclined towards the river suffer erosion and a loss of vegetation. Equally affected is the site from the river with seasonal floods and changing water levels of up to 5 meters. Therefore, the designers developed the strategies: low intervention, traditional construction, resilient design.
- Realization and Technology
- The interventions on site were kept to a minimum and the existing habitat was widely preserved. Most of the trees and ground covers were retained and integrated into the new design. By addressing the soil stability and site reconstruction, the designers also fell back on traditional construction methods and reintroduced farming terraces. Low dry walls were partly repaired and built with local limestone rocks to protect and reinforce the land adjacent to the flood zone.
- Operation and Interaction
- 1. Restore the original landform and vegetation landscape. 2. Resilient and sustainable design, local materials and traditional construction techniques are used to reduce maintenance costs. 3. The interventions on site were kept to a minimum and the existing habitat was widely preserved. 4. The diversity of public space meets the needs of people of all ages.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project was designed in Dec. 2019, and completed in June 2020 in Guiyang.
- Specifications
- Landscape Design Area: 130000 ㎡ By addressing the soil stability and site reconstruction, the designers also fell back on traditional construction methods and reintroduced farming terraces. Low dry walls were partly repaired and built with local limestone rocks to protect and reinforce the land adjacent to the flood zone. Also, stairs and paths and the large amphitheater were constructed with this local building material and the whole ensemble creates a strong sense of place.
- Keywords
- Natural, wild, art ,romantic, leisure, livable
