Recently, HZAU graduates from Landscape Architecture Department, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences won the third prize in the International Student Design Competition 2021, which is held jointly by European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) and LE: NOTRE Landscape Forum. HZAU project emerged as the only awarded Chinese project in this competition, standing out with 4 other projects from over 120 participating projects around the world.
[HZAU Project “Banding”]
The theme of this competition is “The port island of the future---artistic vision for nature-driven revitalization and integration” ,and its venue is Port Island in the northern part of Gdańsk, Poland. This time-honored city is the largest city and the most important seaport in the northern coastal region of Poland. On Port Island where industry and nature are intertwined, the conflict between the preservation of natural & cultural sites and industrial development remains to be solved. The organizers hoped designers could reflect on what role the boundary strip should play in the overall development of the city, restore its crucial role in the spatial, social and cultural image of the city, and create a blueprint with artistic vision for Port Island.
Eight students contributed to the project under the guidance of Prof. Zhang Bin, including Pan Yulian, Xu Xi, Shang Ye, Lei Kexin, Wang Yuwei, Li Suting, Li Cenfeng and Diao Junyu. With “Banding” as the theme of the project, they proposed that the Port Island should be a beautiful and comfortable home first, and then serve as a development site for port industry and other functional industries. Based on this point, they integrated field resources and analyzed the development direction of four spaces (ecological, cultural, social service and industrial spaces) according to the minimum cumulative resistance model, coming up with three different types of corridor spaces which included cultural corridor, waterfront corridor and marginal corridor. Various art zones in the corridor knitted the once fragmented landscape together, contributing to the integral urban landscape. The sustainable art corridor will function as a link to integrate various types of landscapes, internal and external services, and to facilitate interpersonal interaction in communities, laying a fundation for the area’s future development.
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2021/0315/59549.shtml
Translated by: Liu Nianyi
Supervised by: Wang Xiaoyan
