Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Goes to City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area by Hang Chen
Hang Chen recognized for urban planning and urban design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area by Hang Chen, designed for WE-Me Group of Shenzhen Kaichuang Architectural Design Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Urban Planning and Urban Design category. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Regarding City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area
The project site is known as the Waterfront Rural Gallery, Leisure Vacation Paradise, and National Unity and Progress Demonstration Zone, and the city's unique characteristics are the inspiration for the design. The designer integrates natural spaces such as farmland, mountains, and water into the urban design of the high-speed rail station area, combining the needs of industrial development and the requirements of the comprehensive transportation hub construction. This concept of natural and urban integration has formed a distinct and easily recognizable image feature for the city.
About Hang Chen
Hang Chen is a national registered urban and rural planner, landscape engineer, and outstanding interior designer in Guangdong Province, China. With a value orientation of "smart construction", he conducts planning and design projects tailored to specific commissions and local conditions in the fields of urban and rural planning, cultural and tourism development, architecture and landscape. His comprehensive practice strives to comply with regional development laws and maximize comprehensive value.
Award Record
Hang Chen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' City Planning and Urban Design Award
The A' Urban Design Award is an international urban design competition recognizing good urban plans and designs by best urban planners and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to urban planning designers, urban architects, city planners and urban designers from all countries. Typical entries include masterplans, zoning proposals, infrastructure designs, landscape blueprints, public space concepts and urban renewal projects. The awarded urban plan designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/urban-planning
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/150279
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/150279
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!150279
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/343820
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- City Fields Complex Functional Urban Area
- Function
- Complex Functional Urban Area
- Category
- Urban Planning and Urban Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Social Impact
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Slate Gray and Silver
- Images
- 5
- Client
- WE-Me Group of Shenzhen Kaichuang Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hang Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #150279
Credits
- Image Credits
- China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co., Ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The natural beauty of the landscape and local customs are the most prominent urban impressions in the project area. The goal is to use the Pu Zhe Hei station as a catalyst to gather urban vitality and create an integrated "station-city-industry-landscape" space that serves as a new hub for the E•T•I Pu Zhe Hei New City. At the same time, it aim to create a high-speed rail hub urban business card that reflects the natural scenery and local customs to strengthen the original urban impression.
- Inspiration
- The project site is known as the "rural painting gallery and national unity and progress demonstration area". The unique characteristics of the city serve as the inspiration for the design. Based on a respect for the natural landscape of rural fields and mountains, the design leverages the ecological characteristics of the area to reshape the spatial carrier of the Pu Zhe Hei mountain-water-rural relationship. The research background is creating a unique TOD rooted in this area.
- Research
- Research background: The need for the construction; Method: Refining urban development trends, user demand, and place characteristics, and integrating them into the design to create a high-speed rail hub of city where tourists can immediately perceive the characteristic features of Puzhehei upon exiting the high-speed rail station; Tools: Urban planning and architectural design; Participants: Hang Chen, China Railway Erju Co., Ltd. and Qiubei County Government; Results and insights: Became a demonstration project for the construction of high-speed rail hub area.
- Challenge
- The main challenges of the project are to showcase the unique local features of Puzhehei and to create a comprehensive transportation hub that is integrated with the city's development. The design builds upon the original features of the city's rural landscape, extending the pastoral scenery to the building. The building's design mimics the surrounding mountains, and its skyline follows the direction of the mountain range. Additionally, with the use of professional technical methods from China Railway Eryuan Engineering Group Co., Ltd., the project satisfies the requirements of engineering construction.
- Realization and Technology
- In collaboration with China Railway Engineering Group Co., Ltd., a world-class TOD design expert, the design is guided by the TOD concept to connect the underground, ground-level, and elevated comprehensive transportation hubs with the city in a three-dimensional way. This provides technical support for building a comfortable and convenient transportation system, enabling all transportation transfers to be completed within 5 minutes.
- Operation and Interaction
- After arriving at the Puzhehei High-speed Railway Station, tourists can easily transfer to taxis, high-speed trains, buses, bicycles and other transportation facilities. When exiting the high-speed railway station, one can immediately recognize the distinctive scenery and local customs of Puzhehei that sets it apart from other cities. Nearby residents also live in picturesque urban-rural integrated scenes.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started in January 2022 and ended in March 2022 in Qiubei County, Yunnan Province, China.
- Specifications
- Planned Area: 79,300 square meters, Construction Area: 198,250 square meters, Floor Area Ratio: 2.5.
- Keywords
- High Speed Rail Station,Tod,Rural City,Rural-Urban Integration,Green and Sustainable, Mix-used
