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Natsuki Moriba Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for PurPle Jade Villa Residential Landscape in Landscape Planning and Garden Design

Natsuki Moriba 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/ PurPle Jade Villa Residential Landscape by Natsuki Moriba, designed for ATLAS (China), has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of 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.

The Bronze A' Design Award Explained

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.

About PurPle Jade Villa Residential Landscape

Purple Jade Villa is a residential landscape design for a villa community in Beijing. The project forms the fifth and final phase of the development and continues the forest park theme of the earlier phases. Four single villas enclose water features fed by the lake within the site. Planting is dense and includes rare trees and other rare plants. Peacocks, cranes and wild birds live in the grounds. Waterfront and courtyard house types balance open views with privacy. The design was started in 2010 and completed in 2021.

About Natsuki Moriba

Ms. MORIBA joined ATLAS (China) in 2003, and has been working as the design director since then. Working in landscape architecture field for more than 20 years, she has devoted herself to creating space and serving customers and has participated in more than one hundred planning and landscape design projects, who has accumulated rich experience in project design and managemen. Her innovative, unique and humanized design scheme has been widely praised and has won many famous awards. The design works and articles completed by the team she led have been widely published in academic journals and public media both domestic and overseas.

Award Record

This recognition makes Natsuki Moriba a winner of 2 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2020 - 2021 to 2021 - 2022 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

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
PurPle Jade Villa Residential Landscape
Function
Residential Landscape
Category
Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Sustainability
Colors
Black, Dark Green, Dark Goldenrod, Cornflower Blue and Dark Olive Green
Images
5
Client
ATLAS (China)

The Recognition

Laureate
Natsuki Moriba
Country
China
Recognition
Bronze A' Design Award
Edition
2021 - 2022
Design ID
#139812

Credits

Team
NAKAZATO TATSUYA, Yuxiang Bai and Xin Lu
Image Credits
Photo credit: Pink H.H.Wong

Design Details

Unique Properties
Purple Jade Villa is known as an oasis in the hustle and bustle of the city, the Phase V is located at the source of the oasis and is the combination of natural dream and perfect life. Landscape design considers it as a model of urban villa returning to nature, and in terms of conception, combined with architectural appearance style, overall planning characteristics and customer group composition, outdoor landscape is defined as: realizing the natural return of high-end quality life.
Inspiration
Combined with the innovation of contemporary architectural concepts and forms, the project harmoniously integrates the modern architectural forms with the beautiful natural landscape. Different styles of landscape are created: the hydrophilic style is light and transparent, the park adjacent style is rural and simple, there is also inward enclosed courtyard style, considering the openness of the building surface to the landscape and taking into account the privacy between house types.
Research
The project is located at the northernmost end of the overall planning land, as the final work of Purple Jade Villa, it continues the theme of the first four phases - the Forest Park theme, while the architectural has been adjusted, which abandoned the traditional methods of classicism, and responded to the beautiful natural landscape with a concise and qualitative modern style. The project is divided into luxury houses and super luxury houses in terms of single volume.
Challenge
How to make the place a luxury residence with excellent reputation in the Capital City is the biggest challenge of the designers. In addition to a large area of forest coverage, a large number of rare species of plants and trees are also planted here, peacocks, cranes and other rare birds are raised here as well, which attracted a variety of wild birds to the villa for habitat. Purple Jade Villa is a place for people to live in the city while stay far away from the hustle and bustle.
Realization and Technology
In addition to a large area of forest coverage, the villa also planted a large number of rare species of plants and trees, raised peacocks, cranes and other rare birds, and attracted a variety of wild birds to the villa for habitat. Living in the city but far away from the hustle and bustle, Purple Jade Villa enjoys a large area of natural landscape and exquisite carving effect. These rare high-quality qualities make the place a luxury residence with excellent reputation in the capital.
Operation and Interaction
Make max use of existing conditions - courtyard space, public space and ecological landscape lake, take everything as starting point to provide owners with a high-quality living environment, introduce the natural landscape into every detail of community life, and show the Natural color - feel evergreen in four seasons; Natural fragrance - experience fragrance of plants; Natural form - examining the beauty of plant combination; Natural Sound - Listen to the murmur of water, birds and the forest.
Project Duration and Location
The project is located in Beijing, the design starts in 2010 and the completion year is 2021.
Specifications
Four single villas enclose the water features of the tributaries of the lake in the base, creating a semi open and semi closed virtual and real space through abundant vegetation, and the ample area also allows the villa in the west to show a more changeable shape. The houses in the central rectangular land are divided into waterfront type and courtyard type, fully combine the natural waterscape and undulating terrain in the base to introduce the landscape to each household to the greatest extent
Keywords
Residential Landscape, Houses, Purple Jade Villa, Peach Garden, People-oriented

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