Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Goes to Vanke Hill City Residential Landscape by Ge Qiu

The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ge Qiu for landscape planning and garden design

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Vanke Hill City Residential Landscape by Ge Qiu, designed for GND Design Limited, 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 2020 - 2021 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 evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

About the Silver A' Design Award

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.

More About Vanke Hill City Residential Landscape

Vanke Hill City is a residential landscape design located at the foot of Yinhu Hill in Shenzhen, China. The low density community covers 32009 square meters and is next to an urban green belt. The landscape links the community with the surrounding city through the themes of ecology, etiquette, circulation and space. Functional modules are combined in a flexible way, so activities can extend from one space into another. Stone replaces PC material in the drainage ditches, which improves drainage. A courtyard style entry deck welcomes residents.

About Ge Qiu

Mr. Qiu Ge (Kopje Qiu), graduated from South China Agricultural University, founder of GND design brand, and registered architect of ASLA in the United States. After more than ten years of landscape design, he worked as the head of the landscape department of Vanke Real Estate (Shenzhen Company) and hosted more than 40 landing projects. Mr. Qiu Ge is a rare designer who is not only familiar with project development and also has strong research and development capabilities.

Award Record

Ge Qiu is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.

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://designers.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://designers.org/106152
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106152
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106152
Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/278894
Further Information from the Laureate: https://cutt.ly/DyD1Hc6

Media Contact

Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Vanke Hill City Residential Landscape
Function: Residential Landscape
Category: Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline: Spatial Design
Industry: Architecture and Sustainability
Colors: Dark Olive Green, Olive Drab, Dark Slate Gray, Black and Dim Gray
Images: 5
Client: GND Design Limited

The Recognition

Laureate: Ge Qiu
Country: China
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2020 - 2021
Design ID: #106152

Credits

Team: Yongcheng Zhong and Bing Li
Image Credits: Photographer Heli, Vanke Hill City, 2019.

Design Details

Unique Properties: This project, located at the foot of the Yinhu Hill, is a low density residence community of unique natural ecological resources. Developed by Shenzhen Vanke, it boasts the convenience of metro and road network, three parks and Vanke brand property management service. The regional landscape design goes deeply into the relationship between the city and architecture, conceiving the theme from the perspectives of ecology, etiquette, streamline and space.
Inspiration: The community, on its west side, is adjacent to the No.3 urban green belt of Shenzhen. It is integrated with the surrounding urban landscape to make an organic whole. It provides residents with a brand-new eco-community for life, communication with privacy and interactions, and a cultural community which meets the needs of residents' life and bears the memory of growth.
Research: The original research method was to determine the functional modules most needed by customers based on statistics, and to implement the functional space through top-down research, focusing too much on functionality. This project uses the customer experience as the starting point to combine the functional modules. The results are very satisfying. This project achieved our goal of designing a better landscape.
Challenge: The project was tasked with landing the new landscape product. Because of the lack of overall landscape planning for the entire project, the streamlined landscape is less effective. The team has done the research at the beginning. Regarding the activity zones, Product 1.0 meets the basic living needs of the occupants. On this basis, the team added an indoor area to meet the activities of families, neighborhoods and communities in all directions. While the original research methodology focused too much on functionality, this project was designed with the customer experience in mind.
Realization and Technology: The entire project went through the process of landscape productization to land in its entirety. There are elements of the landscape product that need to be upgraded and improved, and targeted upgrades are necessary on this project. From there, iterations of landscape products are achieved. Stones were used to replace the PC material, and combined with the firefighting foundation to make good drainage ditch. This project also provided the occupants with high-quality BEGA luminaires.
Operation and Interaction: In the design of this project a functional module approach was used, with a flexible combination of functional spaces, where people's activities can permeate to other functional modules. Use stone to replace the PC material, and combined with the firefighting foundation to make good drainage ditch, improved the drainage quality. Optimize the path to the trash collecting location and beautify enclosures for trash locations. This case created a courtyard-style entry deck for the occupants and provided the occupants with high-quality BEGA luminaires.
Project Duration and Location: The project finished in June 2019 in Shenzhen.
Keywords: Residential, Landscape, China, Urban, Modern