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Jialian Design Is Honored with the Golden A' Design Award for Merchants International Cruise City Demonstration Area in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Jialian Design acknowledged for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category for Merchants International Cruise City Demonstration Area by Jialian Design, designed for Chongqing Jialian Landscape Design Co., Ltd.. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Golden A' Design Award Means
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About Merchants International Cruise City Demonstration Area
Merchants International Cruise City is a permanent landscape design for a demonstration area in Zhanjiang City, China. The landscape area covers 10783 square meters. The design refers to the nearby sea areas and uses waves and boats as recurring themes. Water features and undulating corridors recall mountains and water. The corridors are made of perforated aluminium plates in wave grey, with carved hollow patterns that are lit at night. Visitors move through a valley, a canyon, a shaded forest and a plank road to the waterfront.
About Jialian Design
Mr. Zhang Zhang has worked in Beijing Turen Design Institute and Tsinghua University Design Institute successively after obtaining a master's degree in landscape in 2002. He founded Jialian Design in 2009. As the founder and chief designer of Jialian Design, while pursuing landscape art creativity, he is also committed to exploring the implementation creativity in the development process.
Award Record
This recognition makes Jialian Design a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/128120
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/128120
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!128120
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/310715
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.jlplan.cn/
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Merchants International Cruise City Demonstration Area
- Function
- Demonstration Area
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Steel Blue, Dim Gray and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Chongqing Jialian Landscape Design Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jialian Design
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #128120
Credits
- Team
- Zhang Zhang, Changming Xu, Jianhua Zhang, Lin Tang,Guangchen Shao,Shuai Xing,Meixiang Ming, Lingdong Zhang
- Image Credits
- Photographer Xi Tang,Cruise City,2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The project is a permanent demonstration area. The design pays attention to the spirit of the site, from the local construction and materials to integration of the community. The team runs the regional elements through the whole project design, and shows magnificent scene of the site through the design method of borrowing and matching to build different scenes with steps. The design combines the vastness, profundity and quietness of the sea with the elements of waves and boats to create the artistic conception of harmony between man and nature.
- Inspiration
- This design uses for reference for the South China Sea and local sea area, and combines with the spirit of China Merchants Group, shows the momentum of sailing and its spirit of embracing all rivers. The design team build waterscape and undulant corridors as mountains and water of the South China Sea and local sea area. Also, some open architectures and interesting natural environment inspired designers to find the best expression between the macro and micro views.
- Research
- Study on site ecology 1. The undulating site forms a microclimate, a sense of wrapping around the periphery. The interior water surface reduces the air humidity and the internal consumption of the building (when the outdoor air temperature exceeds 30 degrees Celsius and the relative humidity is lower than 70%, the evaporation of water can reduce the indoor air humidity). 2. The slope surface can not only digest the amount of soil, but also carry out organized drainage. The terrain is like a sponge, allowing water to gather and spread.
- Challenge
- The first challenge is that we need to reflect the corporate culture of the developer and establish its brand confidence, and the cultural context of Zhanjiang City at the same time. Establishing cultural identity will be the first consideration at the beginning of the project design. The second challenge is that the landscape and architecture can supplement each other, and the architectural form can be highly publicized.
- Realization and Technology
- In terms of the use of the material of the corridors, the designers use the perforated aluminum plate of wave gray and carve out the hollow pattern on them. When night falls and the light is sparse, the corridors is like a tunnel of time and space, fulling with a sense of future and science and technology.
- Operation and Interaction
- The earth art on both sides of the main entrance forms a excellent driving experience through a valley. When citizens enter the valley, they can see the architectural sculpture floating in the water for the first time. The triangular symbol of this architecture echoes with the earth art of landscape. Out of the parking lot, citizens may walk through the canyon under shade trees and aluminum plates with wave pattern are on their sides. After that, people can see the covered corridors between the canyons by guidance of a signboard, which leads they into the building as gaining the deck.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project, located in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, China, was launched in October 2018 and completed in September 2019.
- Specifications
- The landscape area of the project is 10783 square meters.
- Keywords
- Sculpture, nature, art, science and technology, sponge City, photo spot
