Urban Design Competition: Future ShanShui City

Urban Design Competition: Future ShanShui City

Base Introduction
Project Goals
As an important birthplace and practical realization of the concept of “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, Lishui has assumed the responsibility of exploring the construction of contemporary ShanShui cities. With this background in mind, we hope to build upon Lishui’s status as a “traditional Chinese ShanShui city” to organically combine the spirit of Chinese ShanShui together with contemporary waterfront urban development concepts. The goal is to methodically construct a Shanshui city spatial framework in order to set a model image for this city typology, to create a new ShanShui city lifestyle, and to explore contemporary, sustainable urban planning strategies.

Project Content
This competition includes ➀ Conceptual Overall Urban Design ➁ Detailed Urban Design:
➀ At the conceptual overall urban design level, the overall scope is “Dwellings in Lishui Mountains”. Taking the Ou River as the axis, the central city of Liandu, Bihu Town and Dagangtou Town are connected in a series with an overall area of 152 square kilometers. It is necessary to apply the development concepts of a contemporary ShanShui city to research into the symbiotic relationship between landscape and city and to emphasize the spatial model of “Dwellings in Lishui Mountains”. At a macro level, it is also necessary to comprehensively study the spatial layout, implementation of spatial guidelines, and construction of a Shan-Shui lifestyle to propose an implementation plan.
➁ At the detailed urban design level, the scope includes urban central core areas + other regional key parcels. Among these sites, the 4 key plots in the core areas are Wind of Kuocang Mountain, Ancient City Heritage, Rhyme of Sidu, and Guyan Painting Countryside, totaling 5.1 square kilometers. Other key plots in the region are the Portal of Shan-Shui, Ode of Baiyan, Lishui Smart Valley, the Colorful Jiulong, and Bihu Farming and Learning. One plot will be randomly selected by each contestant by drawing lots through a lottery system. (Please refer to the technical brief for work requirements)

Jury Guests
Mr. Shiling Zheng
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academician of French Academy of Architecture and Sciences(Academie d’Architecture)

Mr. Kai Cui
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
The chief architect of China Architectural Design&Research Institute

Mr. Zhiqiang Wu
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Vice president of Tongji University

Mr. Alan J. Plattus
director of Yale’s Ph.D program
Founder of Yale Urban Design Workshop and Center for Urban Design Research (YUDW)

Mr. Nishizawa Ryue
2010 Pritzker prize winner
Co-founder of SANAA Architects

Mr. Jiaming Cao
Vice president of the Architectural Society of China
Editor in chief of Architectural Practice Magazine

Mr. Yansong Ma
Founder and partner of MAD Architects

Mr. Jian Zhou
President of Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning and Design Institute CO., LTD.
Director of Urban Planning Society of China

Mr. Weidong Ma
Executive of Architecture and Urbanism(a+u)
Founder of One-tenth Art Company
Schedule
First Stage:
Open registration, qualification review, and proposal selection stage
2020.04.13   Pre-announcement
2020.05.20   Official Announcement
2020.06.18（tentative）   Competition Launch Conference and Lishui City Promotion Conference(Shanghai)
2020.07.20   Registration deadline, Competition concept proposal and prequalification submission deadline   
2020.07.24   Competition concept proposal and prequalification review meeting (Lishui) Determine 10 shortlists to enter the formal scheme stage
2020.07.25   Announce 10 shortlist members, Shortlist members sign the “Participation Confirmation Letter”, Organizer provides detailed basic design information
 
Second Stage:
Formal scheme stage, finalists’ scheme submission and competition review stage 
2020.08.03（tentative)   Competition site visit(Lishui)
2020.10.11   Deliverables submission deadline (electronic version)
2020.10.13   Submit deliverables (hardcopy) and on-site presentation order lottery (Lishui)
2020.10.14-15   Final outcomes review session (Lishui)
2020.10.16   Award ceremony and city forum (Lishui)

Note: The above time is subject to Beijing time, the organizer reserves the right to adjust the schedule.

Rules
STEP 01
Open registration and qualification review and proposal selection stage
Participants should register and login the official website and download the related documents:
www.lishuicompetition.com, and submit registration materials and conceptual proposals as required by the brief. The jury will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all submissions and will select 10 proposals to shortlist for Stage Two.

STEP 02
The formal scheme stage and the finalists’ scheme submission and competition review stage
The organizer will coordinate the 10 shortlist members to conduct on-site surveys, answer questions, and select project sites. The 10 members will submit final design documents in accordance with the requirements on the “Technical Brief”, and first, second and third prizes will be selected. (For detailed deliverables, material submission instructions, assessment methods and procedures, please refer to “Future Shan-Shui City • Dwellings in Lishui Mountains International Urban Design Competition Technical Brief”)

Requirements
During open registration, contestants (independent legal persons, partnerships, and individuals) with relevant domestic and foreign design experience are allowed to participate. Joint venture (JV) registration is allowed, with the number of members of the JV not exceeding three. Members of a JV can no longer participate in this competition under their own name or under a JV with other design agencies.

Register & Submit
Registration Information：
Please visit the competition official website to register：
www.lishuicompetition.com

Open Registration Stage：
Double-side print and bind your registration materials in A4 size and submit 5 hardcopies (with the official seal, if it is a joint venture, the registration materials must have official seal or signature from every member). All documents should be sealed in a packaging bag indicating “Future ShanShui City Dwellings in Lishui Mountains International Urban Design Competition” and “Participant Name” on the packaging bag. The packaging bag must remain sealed.

Please mail or deliver to the following address before 16:00, 20 July 2020:
Office 1816, Lishui Municipal People’s Government (No.1 Huayuan Road, Liandu District)
To Dwellings in Lishui Mountains Project Planning and Construction Leading Group Office
Tel:
Ms. Li +86 156 1826 5030 (mobile)
Ms. Ji +86 183 5786 3927 (mobile)
Ms. Ji +86 0578-2091842 (telephone)
Postcode: 323000,
please also send the electronic files of the registration documents to the following email:
[email protected]
[email protected]

The registration materials are subject to the hardcopy version finally received. Registration materials received after the deadline will be invalid.

Contact
Organizer:
Lishui Municipal People’s Government
Co-Organizer:
Lishui Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Dwellings in Lishui Mountains Project Planning and Construction Leading Group Office
Planning Execution and Organization:
Shanghai One-Tenth Art Space Co., Ltd.
Media Support:
Architectural Practice Magazine
Architecture and Urbanism (a+u)
iCity Smart City Knowledge Service Platform
Contacts:
Ms. Li +86 156 1826 5030 (mobile)
Ms. Ji +86-183 5786 3927(mobile)
Ms. Ji +86 0578-2091842 (telephone)
(9:00-12:00, 13:00-18:00 Monday to Friday, GMT+8)
E-mail:
[email protected];
[email protected]