Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape by Shenzhen IN Lab Design and Consultancy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Platinum A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Competition Category.
PlatinumLandscape Design· 2020
Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape
by Shenzhen IN Lab Design and Consultancy
Client: Shenzhen IN Lab Design & Consultancy Co., Ltd.
Platinum A' Design Award Winner in Landscape Design Category
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About Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape
Nine Court Mansion is a residential landscape design located in Chongqing, China. The project covers 11952.75 square meters and includes hard pavement, green areas and water features. The spatial layout is inspired by the structure of the Forbidden City. A central axis links three groups of spaces that guide residents from the entrance to the home. Traditional elements such as pitched roofs and dragon scales are simplified in shape and material, and carving is used instead of printing. Plant communities create a green microclimate for daily life.
The Recognition
About the Platinum A' Design Award
Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The inspiration getting from the spatial structure of China Palace, create axis layout and relationship of three-pattern. The traditional homing etiquettes and traditional China element are expressed contemporarily.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
This project is intended to improve the life quality of residents at the same, use the modern design to introduce and express elements of China traditional culture, in order to improve people’s recognition and degree of attention on China traditional culture.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We would invite new colleagues to see the project regularly and give careful analyses of the pros and cons of the project.
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- Unique Properties
- This project is intended to improve the life quality of residents at the same, use the modern design to introduce and express elements of China traditional culture, in order to improve recognition and degree of attention of people on China traditional culture.
The inspiration getting from the spatial structure of China Palace, create axis layout and relationship of three pattern. The traditional homing etiquette and traditional China element are expressed contemporarily. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimension:
Total area of this project is 11952.75 square meters including 2829.6 square meters hard pavement, 4191 square meters green area and 1642.02 square meters waterscape.
Material:
Pavement:
Fuding imitation black water jet Weige Brick;
Royal black matte surface marble;
Granite;
Grey gravel;
Grey marble ceramic tiles;
Facade:
Gris Pinto marble;
Galvanized sheet with Champagne gold lacquer;
Aluminum sheet with wood grain;
Silk printing glass;
Fabrication techniques:
Dry hang;
Water cutting;
Traditional brackets. - Tags
- Modern Chinese, residential, culture, oriental, Chongqing
- Production Technology
- We pursue the presentation of traditional oriental aesthetics in the project design. Chinese style and artistic conception are brought into the design, use the ways to carving instead of printing to grasp Chinese Charm, change complexity to the simple, adjust in material and simplify in shape elements like Chinese traditional pitched roof and dragon scales, meanwhile shall focus on the design essentials in function. That is, return to the users and bring them spiritual pleasure.
- Design Challenge
- Re-look through and explore Chinese culture, and create new fashion of MADE IN CHINA, which makes Chinese regain the emphasis on our own culture. However, Chinese culture lies in its charm instead of single accumulation in form.
The design difficulties this time lie in both meeting aesthetic needs of people and usage needs in life referring to how to express the traditional culture. - Research
- In modern baptism, the popular European aroma and being unfamiliar with our own traditional culture are our collective self lost in this era.
This project lies in improving the life quality and the recognition degree on this culture through contemporary expression on Chinese traditional culture.
After a questionnaire, site analysis and a deep research on the Forbidden City. The axis layout with three organised pattern was made with contemporary expression on traditional homing etiquette. - Inspiration
- Since China has developed from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, the history never goes back. The Chinese peaceful and indifferent life aesthetics and faith for integration of nature and human are challenged and neglected.
We do not deny development, but China needs to regain attention to its own culture at this stage. - Project Duration
- The project started in May 2018 in Chongqing and finished in May 2019 in Chongqing.
- Operation Flow
- Combining long and narrow site condition, and getting inspiration from the spatial structure of the Forbidden City, create relationship of three-pattern, and achieve multiple homing feelings. By rational utilization of different height of site, achieve conversation among spaces. Combining the outdoor space of principal axis with empty space of first floor in the building, and create ultra huge experiential living pavilion, and lead people from indoor to outdoor. Also introduce natural plant community to the site, and create micro-climate life circle and ecological green living place.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Jian'an Zhou, 2019
- Team Members
- Jianan Zhou
Xin Li
Jigang Li
Tiancai Liang
Xianlun Tao
Guowei Zhang
Fangfang
Qiuhui An
Jing Wang
Wei Chen
Yekun Zhou - Image Credits
- Image #1:IN Lab Design and Consultancy,2019.Image #2:IN Lab Design and Consultancy,2019.Image #3:IN Lab Design and Consultancy,2019.Image #4:IN Lab Design and Consultancy,2019.Image #5:IN Lab Design and Consultancy,2019.
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