In the extremely dense center of Beijing'Hutong area, a traditional heritage courtyard was renovated and a greenhouse Sponge Well was created to harvest natural light and stormwater from roof. The rain water is reused to cool off the building during the summer and increase the indoor humidity during the dry winter, meanwhile creating a surprising intimate immersive Meta space under ground and within a dense building cluster.

In the extremely dense center of Beijing'Hutong area, a traditional heritage courtyard was renovated and a greenhouse Sponge Well was created to harvest natural light and stormwater from roof. The rain water is reused to cool off the building during the summer and increase the indoor humidity during the dry winter, meanwhile creating a surprising intimate immersive Meta space under ground and within a dense building cluster.

By the boutique hotel is reused old structure of traditional Huizhou Compound, which is damp, dark and poor in ventilation. A glass house is added that combining the old and new and transform the traditional building into a lively space. A living wall is designed that is irrigated with rain water collected from the roof A truly living environment is created within the envelope of glass and solid walls that functions as a gathering.

The Wangshan Diaoxueyuan boutique hotel reuses old structure of traditional Huizhou Compound, which is damp, dark and poor in ventilation. A glass house is added that combines the old and new and transform the traditional building into a lively space. A living wall is designed that is irrigated with rain water collected from the roof A truly living environment is created within the envelope of glass and solid walls that functions as a gathering.

Le Sponge Cities, o città spugna, sono un nuovo modello di pianificazione urbana che si propone di rendere le città più resilienti agli eventi climatici estremi, come le inondazioni e la siccità.

Kongjian Yu, a Beijing-based landscape architect, author, and academic famed for pioneering a particularly porous approach to urban design that employs large-scale green infrastructure with recreational elements to mitigate flooding accelerated by climate change, is the winner of the second Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.

Kongjian Yu—the distinguished landscape architect renowned for his ecologically sound and culturally resonant designs—has been honored as the 2023 recipient of the Oberlander Prize for Landscape Architecture.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation recently announced that Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has received the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize.

Three Landscapes - Zhongshan Shipyard Park, Red Ribbon Park and Benjakitti Forest Park, designed by Kongjian Yu, the 2023 Oberlander Prize Laureate.

1．Project Statement The project is located in Dongfang City, Hainan Province, and its tasks include two aspects: (1) regional coordination research (Research on coordinated development of coastal coastline of Dongfang City and regional study of urban coastal zone); (2) conceptual planning and urban design of coastal area. The research scope of coordinated development of coastal coastline is 133.86 km coastline of Dongfang City, and the research scope of regional coordinated development ...