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Sekonj Garden Urban Space Design by Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati Wins the A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati honored for landscape planning and garden design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Sekonj Garden Urban Space Design by Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati, designed for Point Architecture Group, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Landscape Planning and Garden Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 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 A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Sekonj Garden Urban Space Design
Sekonj Garden is a public urban space created on a small remaining portion of former interconnected gardens. The layout follows the position of the old trees, and all of the trees have been preserved. Red brick is used across the floor, the seats and the walls. A main axis six meters wide carries a narrow water path and leads to a circular central space with a tree set in a water basin. Seating of different lengths and heights serves visitors of all ages. The seating and the lighting were made by hand in the project workshop.
About Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati
We are a three-member team with a master's degree in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. We have been working professionally on revitalizing urban spaces, especially abandoned and unused urban lots. Spaces that are in front of the eyes but far from the mind.
Award Record
Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
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/143747
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/143747
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!143747
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/335579
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Sekonj Garden Urban Space Design
- Function
- Urban Space Design
- Category
- Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Sustainability
- Colors
- Rosy Brown, Dark Olive Green, Indian Red, Dark Slate Gray and Peru
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Point Architecture Group
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Eskandarpour, Saeidizade and Sherafati
- Country
- Iran
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #143747
Credits
- Team
- Sedigheh Eskandarpoor, Mahsa Saeedi zadeh, Parisa Sherafati, Hamidreza Esmaeli and Shiraz Municipality
- Image Credits
- All the CREDIT and COPYRIGHT for is images belong to Sedigheh Eskandarpoor, Mahsa Saeedi zadeh, Parisa Sherafati Video Credits: Ava Keshavars, Fitness Trainer
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- In the past,there was interconnected gardens in project location,which large proportion of them has been disappeared because of constructing a roadway.Design site is a small portion of a remaining garden,in which its main axes and its old trees have remained yet.Design desire was to create a suitable place for social interactions and to maximize the quality of urban life in every moment of daily use.all the parts,made in the project workshop with hand-made techniques to make the project unique.
- Inspiration
- Reviving the small remaining portion of lost garden was the goal of design and existing trees are the strong point of this space that inspires the path of thinking. Though the space layout and proposed new structure is completely based on the location of the trees. The new look at this piece of land left behind as an urban space and the point of presence prompted the designers to design various spaces for user interaction. Diverse spaces with linear and communal seating in different dimensions and even different heights for all ages to provide a contextual platform for increasing social interactions.
- Research
- Design methods in this intervention based on using Jan Gehl approach from the survey of small urban areas. His research methods based on understanding the primary quality of urban places and feeding this information into architecture is what this project try to practice and improve through implementation. This method is designed to perform actual surveys of public space by human senses mostly through the eyes of the surveyor. This method has been deployed to improve the conditions of public spaces by transforming observations into design.
- Challenge
- One of the challenges in this design was the presence of old trees left over from the previous garden. All the trees have been preserved in the new design. Also, lack of irrigation conditions and the provision of water resources to revive the garden and preserve and maintain the trees and new vegetation that have been planted is another. Among the other design challenges, presence of a government employer were the restrictions on the use of special materials and costs. That is why we tried to create a creative and diverse design from local materials at the lowest cost.
- Realization and Technology
- The type of material used in this project is contextual. Red brick has been used the most and in various and creative ways starts from the floor comes on the seats and goes up the wall and forms a coherent and integrated design with the possibility of creative uses. This project including seating and lighting, are completely made in the project workshop with hand-made techniques and appropriate to the location and nature of the project, and no ready-made samples have been purchased which helps to make the project special.
- Operation and Interaction
- Considering the needs of space users is what has made this project achieve good results. Adhering to design standards, its diverse spaces and functions, along with good landscaping, has created an interactive space. Also, the use of familiar shapes such as old domes and native materials has helped to connect people more with the project. Increasing the level of green space, renewable local materials, using recycled materials and reducing project implementation costs through on-site construction techniques have led to a sustainable project.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in january 2019 in Iran,Shiraz city and finished in september 2019.
- Specifications
- The main axis width 6m with the middle water path width.05m lead to a central circular space with 5m radius and a tree in the middle of the water basin. The central space is 80cm lower to define privacy. Difference in height has been solved with two platforms of 40cm height for sitting and 6 steps of 15cm height for easy access. Seats varying in length from 3m along the main paths to 12m length around the children's playground area. The children's playground is a contemporary design derived from the old domes, consisting of 7 soft continuous domes with different heights from 40cm to 80cm.
- Keywords
- urban design, landscape design, park design, urban spaces, brick facades, brick design, city furniture
