Open and Wild Via Viridis by Xiashu Shengye

Open and Wild Via Viridis by Xiashu Shengye is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Designatio Topiarii Competition Category.

ArgentumDesignatio Topiarii· 2021

Open and Wild Via Viridis

by Xiashu Shengye

Client: Atlas

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Designatio Topiarii Category

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The Design

About Open and Wild Via Viridis

Apertum et Ferum est pars viae viridis publicae in urbe Wuhan, in Sinis, et partem primam viae viridis Lacus Orientalis constituit. Haec pars circiter trecenta et decem hectaria complectitur, cuius medium Hortus Montis Mo est. Ratio consilii, Urbem Quietam Faciens, iter dirigit quod a lacu ad silvam ducit et experientias spatiales mutabiles praebet. Notae paysagiae et viae Montis Mo existentes servantur ut memoria historica retineatur. Aedificia, luminaria, signa, instrumenta requietis et pavimenta accurate designantur. Consilium ripae munitionis ambitum aquae et vegetationem naturalem tuetur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Open and Wild Via Viridis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Open and Wild Via Viridis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Open and Wild Via Viridis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Wuhan East Lake greenway is a city level public greenway located in Wuhan, whose first phase is divided into four sections, while the Open and Wild is one of those four. The project is located in the center of the East Lake with Moshan Park as the core. With a total land area of about 310 hectares, it is one of the best scenic spots in the East Lake whose supporting construction is relatively mature, and a place where the mark of history is inherited.
Dimensions & Packaging: Combined with the original landscape resources and roads of Moshan, this design tries its best to preserve people's historical memory, and focuses on shaping high-level, high-quality and high-grade landscape space, create diversified greenway experience, and provide more comfortable urban public space for citizens, aiming to transform the single park into a multi-functional civic activity center.
Tags: park, greenway, landscape, Wuhan, ATLAS
Production Technology: In the planning, the designers fully connect the Moshan section with the urban master plan, regional comprehensive transportation planning, municipal special planning and other relevant planning, implements the overall requirements of the East Lake Greenway Construction, highlights the Open and Wild landscape characteristics of the East Lake greenway, and fully reflects the natural ecology, convenience and comfort of the greenway by connecting the surrounding functions of the region.
Design Challenge: How to fully show the Open and Wild landscape characteristics of the this place become one of the challenges to the designers. The design focused on two aspects of functional requirements: one is the open scenic area portal, which will make Moshan section a natural ecological landscape miniature of the great beauty East Lake; the second is to design the post station in detail, fully considering the traffic connection, passenger flow distribution, tourists' rest, supporting services, etc.
Research: After careful research, the designers found out that he original Waterfront Livingroom, Jingchu Xiongfeng and Yanbo Yunshan in Moshan park are antiquated with single function, which do not meet the actual needs of greenway. So that when carrying out the detailed planning and design, the designers focus on the cultural heritage of Moshan Park, and combine the historical memory of the park with the new construction needs.
Inspiration: The design adheres to the planning concept of Making the City Quiet, the mountain, water, capital and city are used as the carrier in order to fulfill the design goal, which is letting people walk in the mountains and rivers, to experience the multi-level space transformation. The core of the design is transforming from the lake to the forest, which is expected to make the users meet in the interwoven space and time of thousands of years, and experience the dialogue between history and today.
Project Duration: The project is located in Wuhan city, which started designing in 2015 and has been completed in 2018.
Operation Flow: The designers carry on the detailed design to the building, landscape sketch, environmental sanitation lighting, sign facility, rest facility, paving material and so on, to create the landscape space which manifests the ecological characteristic. The ecological protection of the water environment and natural vegetation are also taken into consideration to create an unique exquisite revetment landscape on the basis of not destroying the water environment, ecology and the overall landscape.
Team Members: Natsuki Moriba
Xiashu Shengye
Longye Zhongli
Dezhi Kang
Zhibo Wei
Yujie Cao
Hansheng Zhang
Image Credits: Photographer: Senwei Xiao