Green Water City - Shanghai Qingpu New City West Region International Competition

Mission Statement

From water town to water city, from suburb to urban, now the misty beauty of Jiangnan Watertown is faced with the collision or mergence problem because of the rapid development.
Through inheriting the history and absorbing new concepts, the competition is to discuss the renovation of Jiangnan Watertown, to create a new urban space with its local culture, to find the ideal form of eco-friendly city planning and architecture.
From here, we leave numerous spaces for designers to create.
 
1. Competition Site:
Two focus sites in 2 Km² area of Qingpu New City’s West Region
A.  Xidayinggang Bridge and the surrounding area, and the two sides of Dianshanhu Avenue
B.  Central park and Dianpu River band
*See details in the Site Plan (in “Competition Materials”)
*Please choose one of the sites above to do the conceptual urban design.
2. Content:
Designers should follow “The General Local Plan of Qingpu District” and “The General Plan of Qingpu New City” (you can find it in the DOWNLOAD) as a basis and principle. If have any essential or important changes, reason or specific renewed planning should be explained and submit accordingly.
Keep the existing architecture volume, main and secondary road frame, planning projects （Dianshanhu Avenue, Xidayinggang Bridge）unchanged. Sub-road framing, green space system and the open proportion of the architecture’s footprint area can be optimized at principle of being more extensible and continuity of the urban space, and the best way for people’s activity orientation, as well as able to make the best advantage of the waterfront view value of this region.
Designers should take fully consideration of Qingpu’s local culture background and its historic texture; combine the existing site identity with the region’s future development strategy, to create a developing concept of urban space morphology and a featured urban identity that is correspondingly within the competition’s design scope.
3. Design Challenge:
How to show Qingpu’s unique landscape and cultural characteristic in design?
How to interact the greens, water and ecology with urban activity in design?
How to connect the neighbor area and shape the city brand of Qingpu New City?
Use which landscape (architecture, public space …) to create the local characteristic?

Competition Requirement

1. Sign Up
People throughout the world who are interested can participate in this competition as individual or group.
You can only sign up for this competition on our official website, from Oct.27,2008 to Jan. 31,2009, you can download the application form from www.qpfuture.com，then send it back to our official email address before Jan. 31,2009.
2. Work Submission
Time：12：00 am (Beijing Time) ,Oct.27,2008 -Jan.31,2009
Way： Participants can submit their works through our official website, or post the disc to us directly
Requirement：（1）Design Description & Illustration (2) Site Plan (3) Bird’s Eye View (4) Perspective (5) Section (6) Elevation （7）Other drawings that you think are necessary
* All the works must be written in both English and Chinese. No specific formulas in drawing approach, computer generated or hand drawings are both acceptable. The number of the drawing boards should be at least 4, all in 841mmx594mm (A1) size. For anyone submit soft copy files, it is required be in JPG format and 300 dpi single sized.
3. Judgment Standard
Creation and Forward Looking in Concept
Wideness in Design Objects’Coverage
Quality of Work and Clear Definition in Expression
Feasibility of the Proposal
4. Prizes
1st Prize, 1 person, 120,000 RMB (traveling) fund
2nd Prize, 3 persons, 60,000 RMB (traveling) fund
3rd Prize, 6 persons, 15,000 RMB (traveling) fund
Public Choice Prize, 1 person, 20,000 RMB (traveling) fund

*（1）On the basis of the unchanged total money, the judge panel will modify the winning members and distribution of money according to the specific situation of the competition
  （2）The prizewinner selected from the contest will be further optimized and implemented the plan according to the judges and organizers’ suggestions.
5. Schedule
2008/10/27 – 2009/01/31 Application
2008/11/15 – 2009/01/31 Work Submission
2009/02 – Judging (Stage1 & Stage 2)
2009/03 – Awarding Ceremony
6. Publicity
In Feb.,2009, works through primary selection will exhibit on the official website and the exhibition center in Qingpu and Shanghai downtown.
In April Issue, di Magazine will publish the winners’ works.
In 2009, the collections book of the works in this competition will be released.
7. Copyright
All the winners’ copyrights belong to their designers. The organizer has right of use. The winners should not submit their design plan to others. All materials submitted for this competition is non-returnable. Contestants should save their own copies. The organizer has the final right to interpret.
If you have other questions, please contact,
ADD:  di Magazine
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TEL:    8621-64400372, 64400902
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EMAIL: [email protected]
CONTACT PERSON:  Miss Yuan Jialin, Miss Xu Wenting  

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