Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings by Ho and Partners Architects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Competition Category.
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Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Real Estate Category
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About Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings
Jiangangshan Number 1 is a residential development located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. The project has a total construction area of 394,000 square meters. The layout follows the natural topography next to Dajing Mountain Park, so that the homes can face the mountain and forest landscape. Building types include residences, a kindergarten, a commercial street and supporting facilities. Residential and public buildings are placed in two clusters to keep the living areas quiet. A circular fitness trail of 700 meters runs through the central garden.
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About the Golden A' Design Award
Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Your integration of mountain resources at Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings, particularly the way you maximized scenic views for all housing types, represents a remarkable achievement in topographical design - could you elaborate on how this vision evolved during the planning phase?
During the overall layout planning, we adhered to the principle of balancing landscape and orientation to maximize the use of scenic resources. Firstly, the buildings were arranged within a range of 5–10 degrees southeast to southwest, with adjacent buildings staggered to provide each residence with excellent scenic views and optimal orientation. Secondly, leveraging the terrain's elevation differences, platforms were created to form a layout with lower southern and higher northern sections, allowing buildings in higher areas to overlook lower ones and achieve panoramic views. Finally, by adjusting the angles of individual buildings and unit layouts, staggering primary and secondary functional spaces, and increasing the spacing between buildings, we fully "borrowed" views from the external mountain park, "overlooked" the cityscape, and "connected" with internal garden landscapes. This seamlessly integrated natural and internal landscapes, forming a complete three-dimensional spatial system that blends with the surrounding environment and links internal garden views.
The centralized functionality and dynamic-static partitioning approach at Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings creates distinct south and north clusters - what inspired this innovative layout strategy and how does it enhance the residents' daily living experience?
The project's unique geographical location inspired this special layout. The site is backed by mountains and urban parks to the north, while facing the bustling urban area to the south. The design theme revolves around allowing residents to immerse themselves in the tranquility of natural landscapes while enjoying the conveniences of modern urban life. "Centralized functionality and dynamic-static zoning"—separating residential and public service areas into northern and southern clusters—perfectly embodies this theme. The southern public service area includes a 27-class kindergarten in the west and a comprehensive building in the east, with ancillary facilities such as community health centers, cultural activity centers, community markets, elderly day care centers, and police stations, totaling approximately 7,000 square meters. The rooftop features a community swimming pool, and along with a 3,000-square-meter commercial street, it closely integrates with urban life. This not only facilitates user convenience and enhances the living experience but also serves as a "buffer zone" between the southern urban road and the northern residential area, reducing disturbances from the road.
Your implementation of BIM technology throughout the three design cycles of Jiangangshan Number 1 Residential Buildings yielded impressive efficiency gains - could you share specific examples of how this technology resolved complex architectural challenges?
During the overall planning phase, we combined preliminary survey data with BIM technology to create site and geological models, analyzing geological conditions and the surrounding terrain. This led to the adoption of a three-terrace design aligned with the terrain. In the detailed design phase, BIM technology accurately reproduced the geological distribution at various elevations, laying a solid foundation for analyzing the relationship between geological conditions and the basement's design elevation and scope. Ultimately, this resulted in a five-level "super basement" with an "overlapping, interconnected, and independently accessible" layout. The basement's seamless integration with site conditions avoided rocky strata, prevented costly blasting, effectively reduced earthwork, and was more environmentally friendly, significantly lowering project costs compared to conventional basements.
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- Unique Properties
- The project is located in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, with a total construction area of 394,000 square meters. The project design gives full play to the advantages of leaning on Dajing Mountain Park, leaning on the mountain, respecting the natural topography, introducing mountain and forest landscapes, and creating a modern residential area with pleasant ecology and rich cultural atmosphere. Building types include residences, kindergartens, commercial streets and supporting facilities.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This project includes multi-storey buildings and high-rise buildings. There are five garages of different heights in the basement, and there are residential and supporting facilities on the ground. The five floors underground are used as motor vehicle parking garages and equipment rooms. There are 1-32 floors above ground, including a three-story kindergarten (block 18 ), a high-rise commercial and residential building (block 6 ), fifteen high rise residential buildings (blocks 1-5, 7-16 ), and a one-to-three-story property service house and shops (block 17 ).The building height is 12.75-99.90 meters, and the rescue site to the roof is 99.90 meters. The bottom of the high-rise residence is an open space floor, the under floor of the commercial and residential building (block 6) is for shops and garages, the podium from the first to third floors are public supporting facilities, and the fourth floor is the open space floor.
- Tags
- Jiangangshan, Earthwork balance, Green building, Urban mountain dwelling, Health life
- Production Technology
- In this project, we have used BIM technology. BIM design covers three cycles: scheme, preliminary design, and construction drawing design. We have conducted staged and refined modeling, problem analysis, and discussion, and derived construction drawings. Shorten the design cycle, improve the quality of drawings, and ensure on site construction efficiency.
- Design Challenge
- How to make full use of the site conditions and the surrounding environment to create a relaxing and healthy home is our design focus.
Centralized functions, dynamic and static partitions
The residential and public buildings are divided into two large clusters, one south and one north, to achieve dynamic and static zoning of the overall layout and create a quiet living environment.
Depending on the shape, urban mountain dwelling
From south to north, according to the terrain elevation difference, the residential cluster is arranged in three terraces in a enclosed layout. Through careful design, the buildings are staggered, spaced apart, and ventilated.
Internal and external integration, landscape penetration
On the first floor of the residence, an openspace floor
is designed to achieve landscape penetration. Here,
landscape infiltration has dual characteristics: first, the
infiltration of park landscape into residential areas; The
second is the infiltration of the interior landscape of the
park.
Diversion of people and vehicles, safe and carefree
A driveway is set along the periphery of the residential cluster to connect with the basement. People and vehicles take their own paths, away from the noise, quiet and safe, the elderly and children can travel safely, further expanding the living standard of the community.
Sports Trail, Healthy Life
Pay attention to residents' health and exercise, and set up a 700m circular fitness trail in the central garden.
Green building
Based on the natural climatic characteristics of Shenzhen, measures are taken from planning, construction, thermal engineering, air conditioning, lighting and other aspects to enhance the thermal insulation performance of building enclosure structures and improve the energy efficiency ratio of air conditioning equipment and other energy-saving measures to reduce energy consumption. The greening and waterscape system adopts the recycling method, which is more ecological and environmentally friendly. - Research
- During the design period, we did a lot of research to meet the needs of users. The end users of the project are aborigines and home buyers. For the aborigines, we interact with them by distributing questionnaires, organizing seminars, distributing design process diagrams and other methods to understand the requirements of the aborigines in time and integrate them into the design. For the needs of home buyers and owners, we cooperate with the planning company to collect various information, predict the policy trend, summarize and analyze, and form a project planning report to guide the design.
- Inspiration
- Bayfront Modernism
Integrating Contemporary Living with Regional Advancement
Heritage Integration and Communal Reconstruction
Preserve Local Cultural Memory through Community Collaboration
Reinterpret Original Settlement Aesthetics in Contemporary Context
Sustainable Site Development
Topographical Synergy
Earthwork Balance for Cost Effective Construction
Eco Civic Living Framework
Dual Landscapes Livable Community Ecosystem
Urban Park Pedigree with Humanistic Ecological Habitat - Project Duration
- This design started in December 2016 in Shen zhen, China and finished in January 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The construction reflects the architect's design intent to a high degree, and the construction and design are highly integrated. The project is presented in a high-quality form in front of everyone.Under the cooperation of various parties, the project began to be sold in 2020, achieving very good sales performance, achieving a win-win situation for all parties, and was completed and delivered to the owner for use in 2022.
- Team Members
- Managing Director:Hin Ngai, Ho
Deputy Managing Director:Pik Wan, Yip
Design Director:Donghao Yu
Design Director:Xiaowei Miao
Deputy Design Director:Yacen Zhang
Deputy Design Director:Wei Wang
Deputy Design Director:Jiaqiao Zhang
Design Director:Kwan, Shum
Design Director:Kin Man Kevin, Ling
Design Director:Kei Shun, Choy
Deputy Design Director:Jianwei Deng
Deputy Design Manager:Jia Dai
Deputy Design Manager:Yang Wang
Design Manager:Xianjia Li
Design Manager:Xidong Sui
Linsen Zhou
Shanshan Lu
Houbo Wei
Xian Zhang
Guoan Zeng
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