Silver Landscape Planning and Garden Design · 2022
Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Guangzhou S.P.I Design Co., LTD
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,008
- Verification code 11733BCD6F · Verify this award
About Guiyang New Community Park Residential Exhibition Area
Guiyang New Community Park is a public park in Guiyang, China. The park covers 130000 square meters beside the Laoma River. Interventions on the site were kept to a minimum, and most existing trees and ground covers were retained. Farming terraces were reintroduced using traditional construction methods. Low dry walls, stairs, paths and a large amphitheatre were built with local limestone. The design offers leisure areas for people of all ages while preserving the karst landform and the seasonal changes of the river.
Hu Sun's Residential Exhibition Area exemplifies the contemporary movement toward landscape architecture that dissolves rigid boundaries between constructed and natural environments, creating instead a fluid dialogue between human habitation and ecological systems. The designer demonstrates exceptional command of curvilinear geometry, deploying sinuous pathways that reject orthogonal urban planning conventions in favor of organic trajectories that appear to emerge naturally from the terrain itself. The aerial perspective reveals a sophisticated understanding of scalar experience, wherein the sweeping pedestrian routes that seem gentle and intuitive from ground level resolve from above into a coherent compositional system of remarkable elegance. The biomorphic pavilion structures, with their amoeboid footprints and integrated water features, suggest engagement with mid-century organic modernism while employing contemporary sustainable design principles. Chromatically, the project achieves a sophisticated palette progression from the architectural precision of residential towers through increasingly naturalized zones of lawn, woodland, and water, culminating in the expansive lake system that provides both ecological function and visual serenity. The integration of reflective surfaces throughout the design creates a contemplative quality, inviting consideration of sky, vegetation, and built form as interconnected elements within a unified environmental system. The visitor might pause to consider how such landscape interventions mediate between urban density and natural preservation, creating spaces that nurture both community gathering and solitary reflection while establishing ecological corridors that support biodiversity within metropolitan contexts.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The project provides a novel solution for the community park in Guiyang, China. A resilient design with a minimum of intervention that respects the site and highlights the local karst geography and former land use.
As a result, the community park successfully integrates a program of leisure activities for the public with the preservation of karst landscape formations on the one hand and a waterfront design to support the dynamic hydrological processes on the other. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Landscape Design Area: 130000 ㎡
By addressing the soil stability and site reconstruction, the designers also fell back on traditional construction methods and reintroduced farming terraces. Low dry walls were partly repaired and built with local limestone rocks to protect and reinforce the land adjacent to the flood zone. Also, stairs and paths and the large amphitheater were constructed with this local building material and the whole ensemble creates a strong sense of place. - Tags
- Natural, wild, art ,romantic, leisure, livable
- Production Technology
- The interventions on site were kept to a minimum and the existing habitat was widely preserved. Most of the trees and ground covers were retained and integrated into the new design. By addressing the soil stability and site reconstruction, the designers also fell back on traditional construction methods and reintroduced farming terraces. Low dry walls were partly repaired and built with local limestone rocks to protect and reinforce the land adjacent to the flood zone.
- Design Challenge
- The karst topology and proximity to the Laoma river determine the parameters for the design. There is, for example, an elevation difference of 45 meters within the site boundary to overcome. Hence the slopes inclined towards the river suffer erosion and a loss of vegetation. Equally affected is the site from the river with seasonal floods and changing water levels of up to 5 meters. Therefore, the designers developed the strategies: low intervention, traditional construction, resilient design.
- Project Duration
- The project was designed in Dec. 2019, and completed in June 2020 in Guiyang.
- Operation Flow
- 1. Restore the original landform and vegetation landscape.
2. Resilient and sustainable design, local materials and traditional construction techniques are used to reduce maintenance costs.
3. The interventions on site were kept to a minimum and the existing habitat was widely preserved.
4. The diversity of public space meets the needs of people of all ages. - Research
- The landscape design reasonably plans the site, and provides important theoretical supports for protecting the original ecology of the site and reducing the amount of earthwork from the aspects of function layout, resource protection, cultural landscape protection, ecological diversity and landscape effect. In ecological design, the original trees and herbs are retained to reduce the restoration cost of ecological balance.
- Inspiration
- The site is located in Guiyang adjacent to Laoma River. Situated within undulating karst hills, the area previously unfolded a typical Asian scenery with green mountains, terraces, and blue rivers with sampan fishing boats. Only recently, the site context developed into a new urban district.
The designer’s main objective in this project is to preserve and emphasize the existing landscape character. Additionally, the park should provide attractions to promote the connection between human beings and nature. - Image Credits
- Image#1: Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
Image#2: Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
Image#3: Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
Image#4: Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
Image#5: Photographer S.P.I, Guiyang New Community Park, 2020.
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