Press Release
Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area by Hu Sun - S.P.I Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Hu Sun - S.P.I 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 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area by Hu Sun - S.P.I, designed for Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 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 scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
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.
More About Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area
Times Mansion is a landscape design for a residential exhibition area in Nanjing. The total area is 8400 square meters, and the landscape design area is 6000 square meters. Existing goldenrain trees and camphor trees were preserved. The space layout and circulation routes were placed away from the trees. A raised waterscape surrounds the goldenrain trees and forms tree holes. Independent foundations and a steel frame structure were built at a safe distance from the roots. The frame is covered with embossed steel plate, paved with waterscape stones and edged with mirrored stainless steel.
About Hu Sun - S.P.I
The Founder, Chairman, Chief Designer of Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., Ltd graduated from Nanjing Forestry University, he has more than 20 years of experience in landscape architecture design. He has presided over nearly 100 international and domestic landscape planning and landscape design projects and has won many international and domestic awards. He believed that the landscape could settle people’s hearts by creating a comforting zone. Then, he created the New Shanshui Design Concept, which is the natural spirit and cultural value rooted in landscapes.
Award Record
Hu Sun - S.P.I is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. All of the awards belong to the 2021 - 2022 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/130641
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/130641
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!130641
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/203683
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/69Vk7dh0_F_AfBpQshvIdw
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area
- Function
- Residential Exhibition Area
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gray, Black and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hu Sun - S.P.I
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #130641
Credits
- Team
- Hu Sun, Yue Wang, Kai Wu, Mingming Qin, Tian Tian, Rui Gong, Chi Cheng and Mingli Chen
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yi Ren, Times Mansion, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- When designers first arrived at the site, they were enchanted by the goldenrain tree and camphor preserved there. They planned to reconstruct the site on the basis of preserving the original ecology. The overall design, such as space layout and flow line, kept away from the original trees; highlighted their values and gave them new lives. They strived to intervene in the site in a "humble" way and adapt to local conditions. They used trees to create a forest theater under the urban reinforced concrete.
- Inspiration
- Site reconstruction is not only the inheritance and redevelopment of humanistic spirit and nature, but also the respect for the site. As a design strategy, it is permeated with the humanized care for users. It shows the unique spirit of the site, and reveals its essence. Designers hoped to present the spirit thoroughly; therefore, they began to think about how to respect nature, find appropriate ways and suitable materials so as to develop a strong relationship between human, the site and nature.
- Research
- Designers hoped to talk with the site in a humble way and get involved in it. They kept original trees on the site to give them new lives. They tried to communicate with them in the forest theater.
- Challenge
- The design that used the same design system in different sites without distinction is not rare on the market. However, designers hope to talk with the site in a humble way and get involved in it. How to keep the original goldenrain tree and camphor on the site and give them new lives was what we thought about. The space layout and flow line totally kept away from the original trees.
- Realization and Technology
- The most important thing was to preserve the original trees on the site. After communicating with plant designers and structural designers, several independent foundations were finally determined to be built in limit distance without damaging the root system, and a steel frame structure should be used. A layer of steel embossing plate was put on the steel frame and then paved with waterscape stones on, enclosed decorated with mirrored black titanium stainless steel plate.
- Operation and Interaction
- Designers carefully thought about the elevation, and used the raised waterscape to embrace the original goldenrain trees to form tree holes, and the structural system kept away from the root system at utmost, and the entire water surface was supported by an overhead structure, which protected the original tree species from being destroyed.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Dec. 2020 and completed in April 2021 in Nanjing.
- Specifications
- The total area is 8400 square meters, and the landscape design area is 6000 square meters.
- Keywords
- site reconstruction, symbiotic design, original ecology, waterscape, forest theater
