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Shang Cai Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for River Cloud Outdoor Landscape in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Shang Cai honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for River Cloud Outdoor Landscape by Shang Cai, designed for Shougang Real Estate. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.
About the Golden A' Design Award
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.
More About River Cloud Outdoor Landscape
River Cloud is a large outdoor art installation created for a landscape setting in Yubei, Chongqing, China. The installation is 8 meters high and 30 meters wide, and it stands on a rooftop at the top of a cliff facing a river. More than 50,000 polygonal metal frames of different sizes are connected to form a curved cloud shape. Openings in the surface allow views of the mountain and the river below. A shallow pool and a smoke device are placed around the work. Numerically controlled light sources give the cloud form changing color and texture at night.
Award Record
This recognition makes Shang Cai a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2019 - 2020 and the 2022 - 2023 editions 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/147736
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/147736
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!147736
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/267514
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://weibo.com/u/1980958957
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- River Cloud Outdoor Landscape
- Function
- Outdoor Landscape
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Light Gray, White Smoke, Silver, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Shougang Real Estate
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Shang Cai
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #147736
Credits
- Image Credits
- Alan Tan
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It is a large-scale outdoor design case of an art installation. It is 8 meters high, 30 meters wide and 6 meters deep, located on the roof at the top of the cliff facing the river. It is demanding to express the image and connotation of the high-end real estate project named after "cloud". With lines, colors, and shapes, the designer creates a cloud form in line with the Oriental aesthetic. Through the interaction of clouds, water, and smoke in the environment, a beautiful space is created.
- Inspiration
- "Cloud" has special aesthetic value and symbolic significance in the East. In eastern culture, "cloud" contains a spiritual realm of randomness, freedom, harmony, and detachment. And the pursuit of natural nature is regarded as a high spiritual realm. With lines, colors, and shapes to create a cloud image that can be widely accepted and understood. Viewers perceive the spatial morphological meaning and thoughts of the ever-changing cloud symbols through form, color, and light under the context.
- Research
- 1. The cloud form that represented by the metal frame structure. 2. Numerical control lighting to create space device color, texture. 3. The interaction of cloud, water and smoke creates Oriental beauty and a sense of high class. 4. Enhanced commercial value with a space device.
- Challenge
- Clouds have varied colors and shape characteristics, and it is very challenging to represent cloud symbols in architectural form. As a long-term outdoor installation, the designer chose a large number of different sizes of stainless-steel frames to combine and used hard materials to express the curve characteristics of the clouds. At the same time, through the use of a number of point-like numerical control light sources, the device at night presents a dynamic effect of light and shadow flow and a crystal clear overall image. The whole device is simple in material, stable in structure, and easy to maintain. It is a successful attempt to express the cloud symbol.
- Realization and Technology
- More than 50,000 polygonal metal frames of different sizes are connected to each other to create a curved cloud shape. Through the holes in the clouds, one can see the opposite mountain view and the river view at the foot. The designer arranges a thin pool and a smoke device in the environment of the cloud device, creating Oriental beauty and a sense of advance through the interaction of cloud, water and smoke.
- Operation and Interaction
- In this case, the designer used a variety of interactive relationships to create an ethereal, elegant, and Zen space environment. The interaction between the sky and the thin water allows the cloud-shaped installation to merge with the sky and the surrounding greenery. The interaction between the main device and the environmental smoke device makes the cloud-shaped device produce a floating dynamic. The interaction between the NC light source and the ambient light allows the device to present different textures and color changes in different light environments.
- Project Duration and Location
- Date of Design Start: 2022.07 Date of Completion: 2022.12 Address: Yubei, Chongqing, China
- Specifications
- Specification: 8 meters high, 30 meters wide, and depth of meters Surrounding: Pool/green area of 2,000 square meters
- Keywords
- Cloud, Spatial installation, Landscape, Lighting
