Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona by Yi Zhang

Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona by Yi Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Kiʻi, Kiʻi Paʻi a me Kamaʻilio ʻIke Competition Category.

KalaKiʻi· 2023

Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona

by Yi Zhang

Client: Water Authority of Shenzhen Municipality

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Kiʻi Category

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The Design

About Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona

ʻO Eastern Seawall he pūnaewele hōʻailona i hoʻolālā ʻia no kahi alahele kahakai ma ka Peninsula ʻo Dapeng, Shenzhen, Kina. Ua hoʻopili ʻia nā māhele ʻokoʻa ʻeono ma kahi kahakai he 32 kilomika ka lōʻihi e hoʻokahi ʻōlelo kiʻi hoʻokahi i hui ʻia. Ua kau ʻia nā papa hōʻailona, nā palapala ʻāina o ke kahua, a me nā hoʻolauna kaiaola ma nā alanui a me nā puka komo. Hāʻawi nā pua i hoʻohālike ʻia e ke kai piʻi i ke alakaʻi maopopo. Hana ʻia nā papa me ka lāʻau paʻa merbau kūʻē i ka popopo me kahi iwi kākoʻo hao i hoʻokea ʻia. Hiki i nā ʻano hana modular ke ʻae i ka hoʻohui maʻalahi ma nā pā kai, nā ʻanuʻu, nā pali hiō, a me nā ʻākoʻakoʻa, a hōʻemi i ke kaumaha o ka makani ma kahi ea paʻakai a haʻahaʻa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Eastern Seawall Pūnaewele Hōʻailona e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project was to connect 6 areas visually by unified signage systems, creating unique experience for visitors to enjoy native features and vitality.
While avoiding intrusive design, we took "reading on the way" as main design concept. It provides visitors with fresh, interesting and complete experience to read information, such as signboards, site maps and ecology introductions for roads and entrances. Modular structures were adopted to meet the needs of different venues.
Dimensions & Packaging: 2800mmx130mmx130mm Anti-corrosion Merbau Hardwood
10mm Steel Skeleton of Cross Bracing
Tags: Signage, environment，seawall reconstruction，experiential graphic，Coastal，public space
Production Technology: Along the 32km shoreline of Dapeng Peninsula in six disconnected parts, is dotted with boards in compact structures. The installation is easy and fast due to stage construction and long cycle. The coastal conditions bring challenges such as typhoon, high salt and high humidity. The boards can reduce wind loads and combine with permanent poles, avoiding looseness and corrosion of regular metal fasteners, easy for maintenance.
Design Challenge: The unified signage systems are built instead of the existed disordered ones to meet low maintenance demands for each section, and the demands for coastal economic production, also for the tourists. They’re designed by modular structures, making sign boards available with various forms but unified modules. Flexible sign-board assembling is achieved to meet the needs of different venues.
Research: Mountain-seaside Promenade was an existed narrow road connecting villages and peninsula end. Without guardrails and roadside furniture, the road was nearly untraversed. By chance, it became a nice area for ocean protection.
The interesting and changing ground graphics by coating process are designed to attract people to interact with this nice area during their visit on the magnificentpromenade.
Inspiration: Located in the east of Shenzhen, Dapeng Peninsula is famous for its mountains and seas. Local fishing villages and long coastline attract a large number of tourists. The design endowed the existed seawall with ideal tourist function.
Linear coastline space connects villages, roads, destinations and activity spaces in the entire region. It becomes a new type of experience-oriented tourist site.
Project Duration: Sept 22, 2022 Dapeng District, Shenzhen,Guangdong, China
Operation Flow: Located on a long narrow site, light and graceful boards can adapt to various venues of seawalls, steps, slopes and even reefs. The vivid tidal flow shaped arrows are adopted for clear guidance at the linear destinations.
Team Members: Zhang Yi（creative director）
Wen Yuehua（project manager）
Yan Meiying（designer）
Wu Siying（designer）