On September 12, Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CSLA) announced the winners of 2014 Annual Meeting Student Design Competition. Lu Shilei(陆诗蕾),architecture major, Xie xie(谢燮), landscape architecture design major, and Qiu Puzhao(仇普钊),urban planning major, from Grade 2010, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology(SCUT), collaborated with Diao Jingshi(刁荆石), landscape architecture major, from Grade 2010, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Forestry, South China Agricultural University(SCAU), and the work ‘An Arrival City of To-morrow--Regeneration of village in Guangzhou city by landscape infrastructure’(明日落脚城市--景观基础设施引导广州城中村落再生) they have submitted won the first prize in the undergraduate group. Their faculty advisers are Mr.Lin Guangsi(林广思) from Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology(SCUT), and Ms.Zhang Wenying(张文英) from Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Forestry, South China Agricultural University(SCAU). Ye Wanlu(叶婉璐), Zheng Linkai (郑霖凯)collaborated with Shen Qi(沈琪), landscape architecture design major, from School of Architecture, South China University of Technology(SCUT), the work ‘Renascence of Fishing village--Waterfront planning and design based on the structure of ecological restoration ’(“渔村新生”---基于生态修复结构的滨水区规划设计)they have submitted won encouragement award in the undergraduate group, and their faculty adviser is Ms.Wu Juanyu(吴隽宇).
In order to improve the design level of undergraduates in landscape architecture major, encourage and stimulate their creative thinking, and guide them to think of forefront issues of landscape architecture discipline and development of the industry, Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture held 2014 Undergraduate Design Competition of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture (CSLA) to cooperate with the holding of 2014 annual meeting. The theme of the competition is ‘Urbanization and Landscape Architecture’, aiming at applying the scientific theory and technical methods of landscape architecture to solve problems brought by China's rapid economic development and urbanization. Moreover, it is also used to protect and promote the health of natural environment, artificial environment and scientific development, improve the quality of human life, inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of Chinese nation. Thus it can promote coordinated development of economy, politics, culture and society based on ecological civilization. In the process of advancing the construction and urbanization of ‘ecological civilization’ and ‘beautiful China’, it further propagates the social role that landscape architecture has played in the places where residents can see mountain, water and their hometown. It is reported that this competition is divided into undergraduate and graduate group, and has received a total of 151 effective programs (83 copies from undergraduate group and 68 copies from graduate group). After the judge of jury committee, 27 winning works have been selected, in which there is 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes and 9 encouragement awards in undergraduate group, 1 first prize, 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes and 8 encouragement awards of graduate group.
Attached description of the first prize work:
In the context of rapid urbanization of Guangzhou, the airport has cut the connection between Cen village(岑村)and urban centers , hence Cen village could not get a good development opportunity to complete its urbanization. In recent years, the utilization rate of Cen village airport has gradually declined, and it is about to be discarded. Against the background of a large population migration into the city, affordable housing has met the needs of the rural population who want to make a living in the city. Therefore, a large external population rented houses in Cen village, triggering the construction area of Cen village to be expanded, the farmland and woodland were occupied, and environmental deterioration was caused. Nowadays, Cen village has become the edge of city, a typical ‘arrival city’ of Guangzhou region, even China. Through field research, the students have found that Cen village’s dilemma is reflected in three aspects: environment, community and city location. Meanwhile, the rich water resources have become the superiority of Cen village’s development. More importantly, after Cen village airport has been abandoned, the release of open space provides new opportunities for the development of Cen village. Therefore, by building landscape infrastructure, the work ‘An Arrival City of To-morrow--Regeneration of village in Guangzhou city by landscape infrastructure’ uses waste airport to build a low cost, ecological, equitable urban open space, so as to stimulate the revival of Cen village, the arrival city.