1．Project Statement  Lingshui River is the fourth largest river in Hainan Province that located in Lingshui County, Hainan Province. The first phase of the Lingshui River Landscape Corridor starts from the north of Lingshui Bridge to the lower reaches of the Xizaihe River Estuary. It belongs to the CBD area of the city. The existing condition of the site has a certain scale of foundation for landscape development. After taking the serious considerations regarding the current status of the s...

1. Project Statement We intend to create a campus full of modern flavor but with great harmony between human and nature. It should reflect the local culture, with its own environmental characteristics, and it must be both economical and practical. In order to achieve that, the principles below are followed during the planning process: design with natural characters; out of the nature, but into the nature. Assembling parts into a whole, architectural distribution is relatively concentrated,...

1. Project Statement We intend to create a campus full of modern flavor but with great harmony between human and nature. It should reflect the local culture, with its own environmental characteristics, and it must be both economical and practical. In order to achieve that, the principles below are followed during the planning process: design with natural characters; out of the nature, but into the nature. Assembling parts into a whole, architectural distribution is relatively concentrated,...

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.