Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience by Yuzhou Wu and Guanyu Tao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.
IronInterface· 2025
Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience
Client: Ambiwishes Technology
A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category
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About Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience
Timeless Grove enhances interaction in an ecological park by integrating digital tools with the physical environment. The app assists visitors in navigating the space, engaging in interactive activities, and tracking their participation. Users can check in, complete tasks, and earn carbon points, promoting environmentally conscious actions. A modular card-based interface with voice guidance improves accessibility for all visitors. By combining user-centered design with spatial planning, Timeless Grove supports park accessibility and encourages community involvement.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Timeless Grove Digital Park Experience is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The core principle behind Timeless Grove is to explore how digital interaction can redefine the way people experience public space. The inspiration came from the contrast between the site’s industrial past and its potential for sustainable, community-centered renewal. By integrating intelligent navigation, gamified carbon tracking, and augmented reality storytelling, the project aims to transform an abandoned factory site into a participatory, emotionally resonant space that connects people to both history and nature.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus was to create an experience that blends spatial renewal with meaningful user interaction. We wanted to move beyond traditional urban park design and instead design a system that encourages users to actively participate—both physically and emotionally—in the site. Through task-based navigation, carbon point incentives, and AR storytelling, we aimed to promote sustainability, cultural awareness, and inclusive engagement within a historically layered space.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Timeless Grove was developed as a conceptual framework, but we see strong potential for its real-world application. In the future, we hope to collaborate with local governments, urban renewal initiatives, or cultural institutions to adapt the system to other industrial heritage sites or community parks. The modular nature of the app and interaction system allows it to be scaled, localized, and customized, making it an adaptable model for future smart public spaces.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Timeless Grove transforms a former industrial site into a sustainable and interactive public space. The app integrates smart navigation, gamified carbon tracking, and augmented reality heritage exploration. Visitors explore eco-friendly trails, complete tasks, and earn carbon points for environmental actions. By blending digital engagement with ecological restoration, the project connects history, nature, and community, promoting sustainable urban renewal.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Park Area: 150 acres
App Interface: Optimized for 1080 x 1920 pixels for smartphones and 2048 x 2732 pixels for tablets - Tags
- interactive park experience, smart navigation system, gamified engagement, digital public space, augmented reality assisted exploration, community based interaction, location aware challenges, carbon points reward system, personalized park journey, user centered design
- Production Technology
- Timeless Grove combines digital interaction with ecological design to transform a former industrial site into a sustainable urban park. Augmented reality storytelling allows visitors to explore historical and environmental changes. Location based triggers activate interactive challenges that promote sustainability. Smart navigation and carbon tracking systems visualize individual and community contributions, reinforcing environmental awareness while preserving industrial heritage.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to balance industrial heritage preservation, environmental sustainability, and interactive design. The project integrates digital tools without disrupting the park’s ecological goals, embedding carbon saving incentives into daily activities. Ensuring accessibility for diverse users was also critical. By merging gamified engagement, augmented reality storytelling, and real time pathfinding, Timeless Grove offers a scalable model for interactive and sustainable urban spaces.
- Research
- Timeless Grove explores how digital interaction and ecological strategies can transform former industrial sites into sustainable public spaces. Through user journey mapping, environmental studies, and behavioral analysis, the project demonstrates how gamified incentives encourage green behaviors. Augmented reality storytelling enhances historical engagement, while carbon tracking visualizes user contributions, fostering long term sustainability and interactive urban renewal.
- Inspiration
- Timeless Grove is an interactive design solution that revitalizes the nanjing watch factory site, a former industrial zone, by integrating digital technology with ecological renewal. this project redefines how visitors experience industrial heritage, green innovation, and community driven sustainability. through smart navigation, gamified carbon rewards, and augmented reality enhanced heritage exploration, the park provides an immersive and engaging way for visitors to interact with history, nature, and environmental consciousness.
- Project Duration
- Project planning duration march 2024 to october 2024, concept phase
- Operation Flow
- Visitors scan a quick response code at the park entrance to activate a personalized experience. The app provides smart path recommendations using augmented reality assisted navigation. Augmented reality overlays past industrial structures onto the landscape, visualizing the transformation of the site. Users engage in gamified eco challenges such as walking, waste sorting, and plant recognition, earning carbon points based on their reduced carbon footprint. These points can be redeemed for rewards within the park or used for discounts at participating merchants.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Ambiwishes Technology, 2024
- Team Members
- Interaction Design: Yuzhou Wu; Landscape Planning: Guanyu Tao
- Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Ambiwishes Technology, 2024
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