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Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape by Ge Qiu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Ge Qiu for cultural heritage and culture industry design
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design category for Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape by Ge Qiu, designed for GND Design Limited. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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 Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape
Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza is a landscape renovation project that connects a Hakka ancestral hall with a commercial district in Shenzhen. The plaza covers 5900 square meters. Lingnan cultural elements such as gable walls, bucket arches, blue flagstones, black bricks, tiles, oyster walls and carving patterns are reinterpreted within the landscape design. The gable element landscape walls give out soft light in the evening. The design preserves the historical appearance of the ancestral hall and offers citizens an open square for rest and leisure.
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
With this recognition, Ge Qiu is a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted in the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design Award
The A' Cultural Heritage Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good designs that preserve, protect, and promote cultural heritage. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to cultural heritage designers, culture industry professionals, cultural heritage specialists and museum designers from all countries. Typical entries include cultural heritage projects, cultural conversation, preservation and restoration and protection projects. The awarded cultural heritage designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/cultural-heritage
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/106154
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/106154
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!106154
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/278894
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://cutt.ly/fyD1000
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Vanke Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza Ancestral Hall Landscape
- Function
- Ancestral Hall Landscape
- Category
- Cultural Heritage and Culture Industry Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Social Impact
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Cornflower Blue, Steel Blue, Dim Gray and Cadet Blue
- Images
- 5
- Client
- GND Design Limited
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ge Qiu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #106154
Credits
- Team
- Yongcheng Zhong and Bing Li
- Image Credits
- Photographer Heli, Vanke · Hakka Culture Exhibition Plaza, 2019.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This case is a landscape renovation project that connects the Hakka Ancestral Hall with the commercial district. In the Lingnan area, people live in compact communities, and ancestral halls are the sustenance of family blood ties in villages. So over the years, there has developed a unique ancestral hall culture in the area. In the renovation process of the project, the ancestral hall is taken as an entity in the inheritance of the cultural and a realistic reflection of the historical features.
- Inspiration
- The project starts with the Lingnan culture and architecture. Through extracting interesting space scenes in daily life and taking comfortable street scale as a design element, it ingeniously brings the elements of rural settlements, pastoral farms, folk custom culture, and architectural symbols into the public areas outside the ancestral hall to integrate the old and new sceneries.
- Research
- In the design of this project, the designer integrated the partition of Hakka Ancestral Hall and Commercial Plaza to resolve the conflict between tradition and modernity. The designer uses the city square as an outdoor promotion carrier for Hakka culture. The results are very encouraging. While enhancing the environment, it also serves as a city square for citizens to relax and play.
- Challenge
- In the renovation process of the Shenzhen Vanke Tianyu project, the ancestral hall is taken as an entity in the inheritance of the cultural memory and a realistic reflection of the historical features. It needed to be reasonably developed and updated to keep pace with the times, on the basis of preserving the basic historical appearances.
- Realization and Technology
- Modern technologies are applied to maximize the space experience. The gable element landscape walls have fused the rich charms of Lingnan architecture and modern technologies to present the spatial vision of different scenes as we move along, and give the space a unique rhythm. When the evening lights are lit, the landscape walls give out soft light, surrounding, rendering and overlapping with the star lights around.
- Operation and Interaction
- The landscape spatial layout is exquisite, enriched from the inside to the outside. It makes clever use of the Lingnan characteristic cultural elements, such as the gable walls, bucket arches, blue flagstones, black bricks, tiles, oyster walls, farm tools, Lingnan carving patterns and glaze mosaics and, through design remodeling, melts them into the landscape design.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project finished in December 2019 in Shenzhen.
- Keywords
- Culture, Heritage, Landscape, Renovation, Hakka
