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Mingcheng Yue Is Honored with the Silver A' Design Award for Pan'an Wetland Urban Park and Landscape Design in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Mingcheng Yue honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Pan'an Wetland Urban Park and Landscape Design by Mingcheng Yue. The result belongs to the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
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.
Regarding Pan'an Wetland Urban Park and Landscape Design
Pan'an Wetland is a wetland park created on a former coal mining subsidence area in Xuzhou, China. The design restores the damaged land instead of replacing it. Soil is rebuilt through methods such as stripping the cultivated layer and layered backfilling to recover fertility. Two rivers are linked to form a circulating water system that feeds the wetland and helps purify urban water. Native trees, shrubs and grasses support biodiversity. A zigzag plank road and a bird watching platform let visitors observe the water and land habitats.
Award Record
This recognition makes Mingcheng Yue a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. All of the awards belong to the 2020 - 2021 edition of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to landscape designers, urban planners, garden designers and municipalities from all countries. Entries typically include landscape designs, public parks, residential gardens, urban plazas, campus designs and green roofs. Awarded landscape designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/landscape-design
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/111605
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111605
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111605
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/282224
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Pan'an Wetland Urban Park and Landscape Design
- Function
- Urban Park and Landscape Design
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dark Olive Green, Black and Olive Drab
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Mingcheng Yue
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111605
Credits
- Team
- Chengming Zhang
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Pan'an Lake National Wetland Park is located in Jiawang District, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. The original intention of the construction was a comprehensive renovation project for ecological restoration and transformation of the Jiawang coal mining subsidence area, and then gradually developed into a collection of ecological wetland, cultural landscape, recreation and entertainment, and science education functions. All in one comprehensive scenic spot.
- Inspiration
- The value of the project is that it has implemented the concept of sustainable development for the wetland park eight years ago. It is not about overthrowing, stripping and rebuilding, but after completing the transformation of the soil, using the absorption and purification effect of plants to spread it in green The form gradually covers the site with the landscape, purifies the environment, repairs the devastating damage to the land.
- Research
- From the perspective of practical verification, the design is based on the original intention of restoring the ecological environment of the collapsed area, seeking sustainable development and harmony between nature, culture and life on the site. The process of landscape design and restoration is carried out by linking water systems, soil modification, vegetation coverage and other means to create a wetland landscape with water as the core, and to carry out plank road viewing, boat cruises, fruit picking, animal observation, etc. according to time and place Activities make people fully interact with nature.
- Challenge
- Due to coal mining for many years, most of the land in the Jiawang District where the project is located has long suffered from foundation collapse, pits and ponds, overgrown grass, and harsh environment, which left a heavy historical wound on the local area. This also indicates that the ecological restoration of the coal mining subsidence area in Pan'an Lake Wetland Park is an extremely long process. The project adopts the form of green spreading of landscape to reconstruct the ecological environment, and the use of vegetation, water system and other natural methods to purify and restore is undoubtedly the most sustainable way and greatly saves construction costs.
- Realization and Technology
- The project insists on the combination of subsided land remediation and ecological restoration. Soil is the foundation for all natural habitats, so the first step to awaken this land is to restore the vitality of the soil: the project comprehensively analyzes the different conditions of the subsidence area, such as soil type, structure, stability, and depth of water accumulation, and mainly uses it for the land Soil reconstruction techniques such as "digging high and filling low, digging deep and filling shallow, stripping of cultivated layer, and layered staggered backfilling" were used to transform soil to restore soil fertility; and the Bulao River and Tuntou River that run through the...
- Operation and Interaction
- The project takes the wetland ecosystem as the core of the design and creates two types of ecological spaces: water and land: by linking north and south water systems to form criss-crossing water spaces with various scales, aquatic plants embellish and shelter to outline the spatial relationship and attract birds. Created the graceful aquatic which people can go boating through it. The land space uses native plants to form a planting structure of arbor, shrub and grass communities, adopting the usual natural and wild plant landscape matching form of the wetland park, and at the same time, the space is dense and artistic.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2011 in Xuzhou and finished in August 2011. The total planned area is 52.89 square kilometers, including 16 square kilometers of the core area.
- Specifications
- (1) Restore soil vitality through soil reconstruction, and naturally restore damaged ecological environment through plant growth; (2) The formation of distinctive land and water spaces, and the interaction between man and nature: the project forms a criss-crossed water space with rich scales and levels by connecting the north and south water systems, attracts birds with aquatic plants, and sets up sightseeing routes for cruise ships.
- Keywords
- Pit, protect and repair the eco-environment, Wetland Park
