Competition Name: International Design Competition of Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral Complex In Conghua District Guangzhou
Project background
The CPC Central Committee released a package of policies in 2018 charting the roadmap for rural vitalization，featuring thriving businesses, pleasant living environment, social etiquette and civility, effective governance and prosperity. In October of the same year, Guangzhou issued the implementation opinions of the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government on promoting the rural vitalization Strategy, to clarify the positioning of Guangzhou as a good example and model in rural vitalization of Guangdong province, to walk out a road of rural vitalization with Guangzhou characteristics .In May 2021, the general office of the Ministry of Finance issued the notice on further improving the pilot work of National Pastoral Complex construction, on the basis of National Pastoral Complex construction pilot experience. In 2021, the central government will continue to support qualified regions to carry out the pilot construction of national pastoral complexes.Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral Complex In Conghua District Guangzhou is the only pastoral complex project registered by the Ministry of Finance in Guangdong Province in May 2021. The business covers modern agriculture, home accommodation, catering, intangible cultural heritage, culture and tourism, etc. The goal of the project is to realize the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, with rural cooperatives as the key, and realize the integration of agriculture, leading agriculture and enriching farmers.
The project is located in Aotou Town, Conghua District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, involving Longtan village, Hengjiang village and Wushi village. The Pajiang river passes through the three villages, adjacent to national highway 106 in the East and Guanglian Expressway in the West.Conghua district is the ecological core area in the north of Guangzhou. It takes the lead in realizing the full coverage of clean and tidy villages and beautiful and livable villages in the whole province, forming a good example of rural vitalization and characteristic towns. Aotou town is a new urbanization demonstration town in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou and a demonstration pilot town in Guangzhou. It is a major agricultural town in Conghua district and one of the five demonstration towns in Guangzhou to create high grain production. It has the development foundation for building a Rural Vitalization demonstration area.
In order to further implement the National Rural Vitalization Strategy, speed up the cultivation of new driving forces for high-quality development of rural economy, and create a National Pastoral Complex, Guangzhou Yuexiu Fengxing Pastoral Complex Co., Ltd. (Guangzhou Yuexiu Fengxing Pastoral Complex Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guangzhou Yuexiu Group Co., Ltd.) launched the international competition for the design scheme of Yuexiu Fengxing National Pastoral complex in Conghua District, Guangzhou (hereinafter referred to as the “competition”), in order to realistically develop the village and build a demonstration area for Rural Vitalization in Guangdong.
Working range and competition content
This competition covers two levels: research area and overall design area, of which the overall design area includes two sub projects. See Annex 1 for details.
Research area：The project involves Wushi village, Hengjiang village, Longtan Village in Aotou Town, covering an area of 21.27 square kilometers. The competition content covers the overall positioning, cluster structure and regional traffic road system optimization and so on.
Overall design area
Sub project 1 is Rural architecture and landscape design:The total area is about 19.9 hectares, which is divided into three areas: Wushi Village area, Ge Village area and Xujia courtyard area, with a planning area of about 10.4 hectares, 5.8 hectares and 3.7 hectares respectively. The rural architecture and landscape design scheme should focus on the rural activation under the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in the area, and put forward design strategies. The design content includes the transformation and utilization aimed at activating the operation, such as the transformation of rural Courier station, home accommodation, facade upgrading, public space upgrading, farmland and woodland activation, etc. No less than 3 key node concept designs are proposed in each area.
Sub project 2 is cultural tourism project design:the project is located in Qinglong base, Hengjiang village, Aotou town. The design area includes Huamei pasture and surrounding villages. The planned area is about 295.3 hectares, of which the core area design scope is about 106.7 hectares.The main design content needs to fully combine the operation concept and mode of the pastoral complex, build brand IP around cow IP, and innovate the design of buildings and landscapes with industrial and rural local characteristics.Through the creation of a serious of unique rural life scenes and the shaping of landmark buildings, the project creates a unique pastoral complex to achieve four new highlights of “Industrial Innovation, Environmental Renewal, Cultural Renewal and Institutional Innovation”.
Registration Method
Registration Qualification Required
The design organization applicants from domestic shall have the independent legal person qualification, and provide business license , not being ordered to close or being repealed. The design organization applicants from overseas must be a legally registered design institution in the place where it is located, and provide a valid registration certificate. If the person in charge of the company is the same person or different companies with holding or management relationship, it’s forbidden to sign up for the competition project at the same time. （Note: LOCATION refers to the main place where companies, enterprises or commercial institutions are registered to operate business or set up offices according to law）
Domestic applicant must have one of the following valid qualifications: (1)Construction Industry Engineering Design Qualification Class-A (2) Construction Industry (Construction Engineering) Professional Design Qualification Class-A (3)Engineering Design Integrated Qualification Class-A (4)Urban and Rural Planning Qualification Class-A (5) Landscape Professional Engineering Design Qualification Class-A (6)Tourism Planning and Design Qualification Class-A. Copies of relevant documents hould be provided with official seals.
Personal registration is not accepted in this competition(including all members of the consortium).
The design organization applicant (either party of the consortium)shall have the relevant planning (or design) achievements of Rural Vitalization or ecological town or characteristic town or cultural tourism or artistic installation from January 1, 2017 to the deadline of registration (The copy of contract and other supporting documents shall be provided. For the past performance undertaken by a consortium, relevant materials shall be provided to prove that the working contents undertaken by the company in the project meets the requirements of this item. The performance calculation time shall be subject to the contract signing time).
The General Project Leader/Chief designer must directly participate in the whole process of design activity，and personally attend the competition site to report the plan at least 2 times.The design organization applicant shall ensure the General Project Leader/Chief designer and main designers always participate in design that shall not be replaced midway.
In order to ensure that the project designers have an accurate understanding of the Chinese background and relevant requirements, the overseas design organization must have at least one person familiar with Chinese.
The application by the consortium is accepted in the competition. The number of organizations constituting the consortium shall not exceed 2. The consortium shall submit the Agreement of Consortium Participating in the Competition as required (each member of the consortium shall affix the official seal of the corresponding entity； if the overseas design organization has no seal, it can be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative).
Note: For detailed information, please refer to Annex 3: Collection Document ,Part two. Composition of The Application Documents, Annex 3-1 Qualification Form, Annex 4 Concept Proposal.
Registration Time
Based on Beijing time, 9:00-12:00 am and 14:00-17:00 PM from July 28 to August 16, 2022 ( Don’t accept the submission of materials on legal holidays).
Registration Method
The design organizations intending to participate in the competition MUST upload the completed application registration form and attachments (refer to Annex 2 for details) affixed with official seal to E-mail box:yuexiucomplex@163.com within the specified time.
It is allowed design organizations intending to participate in the competition to apply for two sub projects at the same time, but which cannot be recommended as the participating design organization and candidates of the two sub projects at the same time. That is to say, sub project 1 will be selected first. If it has been recommended as a participating design organization in sub project 1, it will no longer participate in the selection of sub project 2.Before the selection of sub project 2, the participating design organization that have been recommended as sub project 1 shall be eliminated first, and then the participating design institutions and candidates shall be recommended in turn according to the selection rules. If the candidate of sub project 1 is selected as the participating design organization of sub peoject 2, the candidate of sub project 1 will be postponed according to the ranking after excluding the organization. If the candidate of sub project 2 is the candidate of sub project 1, the candidate of sub project 2 will also be postponed in the above-mentioned manner.
Competition Registration Documents
The design organizations intending to participate in the competition MUST send or post the completed competition application document (refer to Annex 3 and Annex 4 for details) in written form to the competition co-organizer before 17:00, Aug.16, 2022. If the design organization submits the documents by mail, the submission time shall be subject to the time when the competition co-organizer signs and receives the registration documents.
The receiving address information is as follows:
Name of recipient:Chen Yiyang
Contact phone number：020-83546050、13611455891
Address: 62nd floor, Zhujiang New Town International Financial Center, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
For different sub projects,the design organization applicant must prepare a complete application document and bind it into a volume. It can be bound in separate volumes when the content is overmuch. The cover of the registration documents bound independently shall be affixed with the official seal of the design organization applicant, and the registration documents shall be affixed with the official seal of the design organization applicant in the slit and on each page. If the overseas design institution has no official seal, it can be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative .The representative of the design organization applicant can be the legal representative or its authorized representative. The registration document signed by the authorized representative shall be accompanied by a valid power of attorney signed by the legal representative.
The design organizations must bear all the consequences caused by any mistake or omission in the application documents.
The registration documents are should be in quadruplicate (1 original and 3 copies, which must be marked with the words “original” and “copy” on the cover of the registration documents), and one electronic copy of the registration documents (including one document in WORD format and original paper document color scanned in PDF format ,which shall be stored in USB flash drive, without encrypted and virus). If the original is inconsistent with the copy, the original shall prevail.
The registration document shall be duly signed by a legally authorized representative of the design organization applicant and any changes, if any, shall be signed by the original signatory.
All registration documents should be delivered to the competition co-organizer before the deadline. Overdue documents will not be accepted. The co-organizer will not be responsible for the damage or loss of the registration documents caused by force majeure.
All application documents must be sealed in a sealed envelope or package with the official seal of the design organization applicant affixed to the seal. (1) the original (with official seal on the original), (2) the copy, (3) the application registration form and (4) the electronic version of the application document should be sealed separately and marked,the above contents shall be written on the cover of each envelope or package(see the selection document for details).
The written registration materials made in accordance with the registration requirements in (I) of the competition registration methods in this announcement VI must be delivered to the site or by post before the registration deadline. The written registration materials delivered before the deadline (subject to the mail signing record or the on-site signing form record) will be deemed as successful registration.
Competition method
Selection of design organization
This competition adopts the method of public registration. By publishing the competition announcement on the website, it openly accepts public design organization applications from domestic and overseas..Through selection and ranking by experts,the top three design organizations in each sub project are selected as the participating organizations, and the fourth is the candidate . If there are less than 6 design organizations that meet the requirements of competition qualification, the competition sponsor may decide to extend the registration time or reorganize the registration according to the project situation. If any design organizations give up the shortlisted qualification for some reason after the shortlisted institutions confirmed and before the release of the competition documents, their competition shall be replaced in turn among the alternate design organizations until 3 are supplemented.. The competition co-organizer will send a formal invitation to the shortlisted design organizations, and the competition schemes submitted by other design organizations that have not been formally invited will not be accepted.
The selection results of the competition design organizations will be announced in mid-late August 2022.
Release of competition technical documents
The official competition technical document release meeting of the project is tentatively scheduled to be held in mid-late August 2022., and the site survey and Q &； A will be organized at the same time. The specific place and time in the invitation letter shall prevail.
Submission time of achievements
The deadline for submission of results is tentatively set for early October 2022. All design organizations must submit the final competition outcome documents to the designated place before the deadline, subject to the actual signing time.The design cycle is about 45 calendar days.
Results review method
The evaluation of the competition results includes two stages:the validity review and the scheme evaluation. The review committee of technical will first review the validity of all achievement schemes to determine the validity of achievement schemes. Results programmes that fail to pass the validity review shall not enter the scheme review.
The evaluation committee of scheme will evaluate the valid achievement scheme which pass the validity review, and select a winning scheme for each sub project by voting on the basis of careful study of the competition technical documents and full discussion and comparison.
The competition evaluation results of this project will be tentatively announced within 5 working days after the competition results evaluation meeting.
Competition expense arrangement
Competition cost compensation and bonus
If the design result is confirmed to be valid by experts,in each sub project,the third ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of seven hundred thousand RMB (￥ 700000.00), the second ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of eight hundred thousand RMB (￥ 800000.00), and the first ranked design organization will receive cost compensation of nine hundred thousand RMB (￥900000.00). The result that fails to pass the validity review will not receive cost compensation. If the scheme is evaluated by experts and finally confirmed by the organizer, the design organizations of the scheme can obtain another deepening design fee of one million RMB (￥ 1000000.00) on the basis of cost compensation.
Note: The participating unit of the consortium is regarded as a design organization.
Payment method
The competition cost compensation fee and the deepening design fee are paid in RMB, the expenses shall be settled with design organization by the institution, and any taxes incurred are borne by the design organization. If the competition design organization is a consortium, it shall form a written agreement on the proportion of the consortium’s expenses within 28 days from the date of the press conference of the competition technical documents and submit it to the competition co-organizer. Those who fail to submit within the time limit will only settle all the expenses of the consortium with the main part of the consortium.
The cost compensation and deepening design fees obtained shall be paid to all signing up for the competitions in China in RMB. If the overseas design organization cannot use its own account to collect RMB, it can authorize the domestic legal independent legal person to collect the money, and the relevant handling fees, taxes and other fees shall be borne by the design organization.
Note：
The design organization whose competition design results are evaluated as invalid by the evaluation committee will not be compensated for the competition cost.
The cost compensation fee of this competition includes all expenses incurred by the design organization during this competition (including but not limited to design expenses, achievement production expenses, design research expenses, travel expenses incurred in cooperating with the holding of relevant project communication meetings, design copyright fees, relevant taxes, etc.), and no other expenses will be paid.
Others
The competition shall be governed by the laws of the people’s Republic of China, and the competition work and all documents shall be governed by Chinese laws. In case of any dispute, if the negotiation fails, it shall be submitted to China Guangzhou International Arbitration Center for arbitration. The arbitration shall be final and binding on both parties.
In case of any discrepancy between this competition announcement and the officially released competition technical document, the officially released competition technical document shall prevail.
In case of any inconsistency between the English version and the Chinese version of the registration announcement of this competition, the Chinese version of the announcement shall prevail.
All application materials will not be returned.
The above contents or requirements are applicable to all sub projects unless otherwise specified.
If there is no special explanation for all the requirements of “company seal” in this project, the overseas design institution shall be signed by its legal representative or legal authorized representative. If the registered design organization is a consortium, the main party of the consortium shall affix the company seal in addition to the consortium entry agreement.
If the materials provided by overseas units are in foreign languages, Chinese materials notarized by qualified translation institutions or notary offices shall be provided.
The agency service fee is charged separately by sub projects. The participating design institutions that obtain the winning scheme will be charged at 3% of the sum of cost compensation fee and deepening design fee. The participating design institutions that obtain cost compensation fee will be paid at 3% of cost compensation fee, and the above payment procedures will be handled in RMB.
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
There is no doubt that 3D rendering can be a powerful tool for travel agencies. By using 3D rendering services, you can not only achieve the “seeing is believing” effect, but also spark your clients’ interest for the trip.
Our client Leo from O-Lifestyle brought us this new exciting project on Aegina Island, Greece. It is a luxury club and hotel providing the opportunity to escape the normality of reality. At the same time, it is a redevelopment of an area where the hills underwent a forest fire a couple of years ago.
The old site.
This time, we built a 3D model from the scratch and created 3D renderings, and the result turned to be satisfying. In this case study, we described the whole process step by step, so that you can have a clear perspective of an architectural visualization project. Let’s check it out!
The Scope
Leo was looking at different types of 3D visuals: 3D rendering and 3D floor plan. To specify:
An aerial view of the harbor, demonstrating the masterplan of this resort;
An interior view of the room, which gives a clear view of the hotel accommodation;
An exterior view of the hotel, which is a close-up view showing the details of the hotel environment;
A 3D floor plan to showcase the layout of the room.
Building the 3D Model
Leo summarized the references for the buildings and shared the masterplan, and we needed to build the 3D model based on these information.
According to the masterplan details, we knew the following:
There are two rows of suits, and they are identical;
The recreation area sits behind one of the suits, including brasserie, sky lounge, lobby, SPA & wellness, and linear pools;
There is a lagoon with sand beach and waterfall;
Facing the sea, there is a beach all-day restaurant club;
Along the beach, there is a yacht floating docks and a yacht owners decked pathway & seating area.
After studying the above references, our 3D specialists built the model using 3ds Max, and it looked like this:
The aerial view & close-up view of the model.
Exterior & Interior 3D Renderings
First, let’s get clear of what we were looking at. The exteriors of the project consists of two views: an aerial and a close-up view. As to the workload, aka the time needed for each view, the aerial view took longer than the other one.
The Aerial View
To demonstrate 100% of the original site, Leo sent us some drone photos for photo-composition for the aerial view.
Part of the site photos.
The landscape plan.
After discussion, we decided to go with the camera angle facing the sea. In the rendering draft, we particularly:
Embellish and add greenery to make a natural look of the barren hill because of fire;
Adjust the lighting according to the original photo;
Added materials and textures and make sure they are consistent with the tone of the original photo.
It didn’t take too long when we received Leo’s comment on the first round draft. As you can see, Leo gave us some comments on the placement of yachts and other minor adjustments.
Comments from Leo’s team.
Our 3D artists revised each details as in the comments. Here is the final result.
Leo loved the way we processed the hills behind. This aerial view is done.
The Hotel – Interior & Exterior View
Using the 3D model we’ve built, Leo pointed out two views he wanted: an interior view and an exterior close-up view.
Now, let’s have a look at the references Leo shared. In the references, our 3D artists were able to have a clear idea of the furniture plan and material board. This greatly helped the production process.
The process strictly followed the 3D rendering process: 3D modeling – material, texture & lighting – rendering & postproduction. After a couple of rounds of minor adjustments, the final images were complete.
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3D Floor Plan
Floor plans are an essential part of real estate, and 3D ones give the viewers a true feel for the look and layout of a space. This time, Leo was looking for a 3D floor plan.
According to the floor plan of the units, our 3D artists built the 3D floor plan and fit the proper furniture in different spaces.
The floor plan.
By adding realistic material and texture, also recreating the beach and sea, the 3D specialists created the first round draft:
Leo’s team came back with their comments rapidly. This time, the comments particularly focused on the bathroom:
Change the glass around the shower to a more vivid color;
Add a shower head inside the shower;
Swap the positions between the shower & the sinks-counter set, and adjust the size of each correspondingly.
As a result, we’ve fixed these issues in one day and delivered the final 3D floor plan!
The Final Results
Let’s show you the final renderings together. We’ve delivered them in 4K resolution as we promised. We believe once this resort is complete, it will be a memorable place for its visitors to enjoy unique holidays.
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This resort & beach club is planning to open to public on 2023. Our renders are now on their website for marketing. We are honored to create 3D works for this project. Leo and his team is very nice and well-organized, and we’re more than glad to hear that they’re satisfied with our service. Our team hope to work with them in the near future.
What do you think about this project? Looking for a reliable architectural visualizer to work with? Feel free to contact our professional architectural visualization studio, and we’ll bring your exciting project to life in a short turnaround time!
International Architectural scheme Design Competition for Food Safety and Health Industrial Park in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
Competition organizer and competition agency
The organizer of this competition is Guangzhou Technology Finance Group Co., Ltd.
The competition agency of this project is Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
The competition is held in Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
The competition content
The contents of the competition is project architectural scheme design, including but not limited to: general layout planning and design, single building design, other professional design instructions, etc.Concept design and construction scheme design, winning a competition unit follow-up to guide the preliminary design and construction drawing design, full participation in the form of consulting all kinds of drawing design documents, deepen to the completion acceptance stage and is responsible for the whole design style, to ensure that the design concept, implemented and implementation effect, the design intent.
Competition method
The competition will be open to the public through the announcement of the competition on the website, open to accept the registration of domestic and foreign design companies.
Competition entry
Qualifications
The registered domestic design firm shall have the status of an independent legal person and provide a valid business license. The registered domestic design firm shall not be in the bad state of having its business license revoked, being ordered to close down or being revoked；An overseas design firm shall be a legally registered design firm in its locality and provide valid commercial registration certificate.Domestic and foreign units with the same person in charge or different units with holding or management relationship shall not register for the competition at the same time.(Note: Location refers to the main place where a company, enterprise or commercial company registers its business or establishes its office according to law)
The registered design firm shall meet the following requirements: If the registered design firm is a domestic design firm, it shall have class A qualification of professional design of construction industry (construction engineering)；If the registered design firm is an overseas design institution, it shall provide the design license issued by the competent government department of the country or region where it is located or the relevant industry organization.Copy of relevant qualification certificate and company seal should be provided.
This competition does not accept individual registration.
The registered design firm shall have the performance of independently undertaking architectural design projects from January 1, 2017 to the deadline for registration (copies of contracts and other supporting documents shall be provided, and the performance calculation time shall be subject to the signing of contracts).
The project manager has served as the chief architect of international or domestic representative city construction projects, and won international or domestic authoritative, well-known awards or honors.
The design company to be sent by the registered design firm must have personnel with architectural professional background. If the design team is not equipped with personnel with architectural professional background, the architectural consultant team shall be invited (personnel with architectural professional background shall provide relevant documents of professional background, including but not limited to certificates of educational background and certificates of architectural professional title. Copy of award certificate or relevant performance certificate affixed with company seal).
The project manager must directly participate in the whole process of design activities, and attend the presentation in person after winning the bid (if unable to attend due to the impact of the epidemic, video presentation can be adopted).The registered design firm shall ensure that the project chief and main designers always participate in the design work and shall not be replaced in the middle of the project.
In order to ensure that the project designer has an accurate understanding of the background and relevant requirements in China, the overseas design firm shall have at least one person who is fluent in Chinese.
Consortiums are accepted for this competition.But only cooperation (consortium) in accordance with article 2 of the qualification conditions of this announcement and one domestic design firm will be accepted. Independent registration of overseas design firms will not be accepted for this competition.
The preliminary service agency of the competition shall not participate in the competition. The preliminary service agency is Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Registration method
Registration method: Qualified design companies shall submit registration materials from July 20, 2022 to 17:00 July 29, 2022 to Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd, And scanned into electronic version and sent to hhm@giecc.com.cn. The contact person and address are listed in Article 13 of this announcement.The registration fee is 1000 yuan,and late registrations will not be accepted.
The registration document shall contain at least the following contents (in duplicate) :
Registration form；
Business license and qualification certificate；
Company profile；
Resume of project leader, representative works and awards certificate.
The registration documents shall be arranged in A4 format and bound into a book, with one original and three copies.The original copy shall be stamped with the company seal as indicated in the format document and the cross-page seal.
Send “Competition Document” and “Design Specification” to the applicant: within one day after receiving the application materials of the applicant and passing the examination of the competition agency, the applicant shall be sent by email to the applicant.
If less than 5 design firms have submitted the registration documents by the deadline, the organizer may decide whether to extend the registration period according to the actual situation.
Competition Period
The competition period of the design unit is from July 20, 2022 to August 30, 2022. The competition unit submits the design proposal on August 31, 2022, the design scheme will not be accepted after the deadline, and the specific time schedule is shown in the attached table of this announcement.
Project funding
The project investment is about 1.30134 billion yuan, all of which will be invested by the organizers of the competition and the project funds have been settled.
On the premise of ensuring the design quality, the design unit should follow the principles of functional application, reasonable standard and reasonable economy to carry out the design work, implement the design quota, to ensure that the project estimate budget does not break through the quota target of the proposed project cost.
Reviewing method
The organizer entrusts the competition agency to organize the bid evaluation committee to examine the qualification of the applicants according to the design deliverables submitted in the “Competition Documents”.After passing the qualification examination, the bid evaluation committee will conduct scheme evaluation, and the design firms that pass the qualification examination will be voted by secret ballot. Finally, 5 design schemes will be selected as the winning schemes and the Bid Evaluation Report will be formed.
The competition organizer will set up a bidding committee and hold a bidding meeting, and the bidding evaluation committee will recommend 5 winning schemes as candidates to the bidding committee.
The bidding deciding committee shall evaluate all the bidding candidates according to the provisions of the “Competition Documents”, recommend the winning bidder and issue the Bidding Report according to the evaluation vote, and request the competition organizers to check and confirm the winning result.The winning design firm will participate in the deepening of the design.
The design unit of the winning project is entitled to the concept design right, the scheme design right, the guidance of the preliminary design, in the way of consultation to participate in the drawing of all kinds of design documents, deepening to the completion acceptance stage and responsible for the overall design scheme style check, to ensure that the design concept, effect, design intention is implemented and realized.
Rewards and Economic Compensation
The winning project will be awarded RMB 300,000 (about US$44,300), and the winning organization will sign a design contract with the competition organizer；Integration and deepening of the competition plan shall be carried out according to the requirements of the organizer. After submitting the integration and deepening results that meet the requirements, an additional integration and deepening fee of RMB 250,000 (about US$36,900) can be obtained on the basis of this fee.That is, the selected organization will be awarded 550,000 yuan (about US$81,300) in total.
The competition organizer or organizer designated unit with the following is not the winning project compensation contracts respectively pay economic compensation amount after (including taxes, design results using cost, design cost, intellectual property, cooperate with relevant project communication conference organizers all expenses such as travel expenses) :
For the 2nd to 5th winning candidates, each participating an comapny (consortium regarded as one participating company) will be entitled to a economic compensation of RMB 100,000 (about US$14,700)；
All the documents of the winner and the runners-up 2-5, including but not limited to all kinds of drawings and document data, are exclusively for the use of this project, and the intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyright) of the documents involved belong to the organizer of the competition.
The competition sponsor or the organization designated by the competition sponsor and the winning bidder have the right to refer to and use part of all the design results that have obtained economic compensation in the implementation plan.
If the competition fails, no economic compensation will be paid to any unit.
The cost compensation of the design competition shall be paid in RMB, which shall be settled by the competition organizer or the organization designated by the competition organizer and the participating organizations.
Notes:
The participant whose design results are deemed invalid by the evaluation committee and whose design results are ranked no. 5 (excluding no. 5) will not be compensated for any competition costs.
The cost of this design competition economic compensation includes what happened during the period of participating companies in the design competition all expenses (including but not limited to design cost, production cost, design research cost, cooperate with related project communication conference design copyright fees, travel expenses, relevant taxes, etc.), no longer pay any other fees.
Design competition deposit
No design competition deposit is required for this project.
Other matters
The Competition shall be governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China, and the competition work and all documents shall be governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China.In case no settlement can be reached through negotiation, any dispute shall be submitted to Guangzhou Arbitration Commission for arbitration.The arbitration award shall be final and binding upon all parties.
In case of any discrepancy between this announcement and the official Competition Document, the official Competition Document shall prevail.
In case of any discrepancy between the Announcement in English and Chinese, the Announcement in Chinese shall prevail.
All registration materials will not be returned.All registration documents and deliverables must be in Chinese.
Overseas and domestic companies must be authorized by the Headquarters to participate in this competition.
The competition agency service fee shall be paid by the selected design company,
the selected design firm shall pay the competition agency service fee of RMB 50,000 only in one lump sum before receiving the Notice of selection.
File submission method
The competition period is from July 20, 2022 to August 30, 2022, and the participants will submit the design proposal on August 31, 2022. The design proposal will not be accepted after the deadline. Please refer to the attached schedule of this announcement for details.
Contact Person and Address.
The competition agency: Guangzhou International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
Address: RM 903,9/F,Wuyang Xincheng Plaza,111 Siyou New Rd,Guangzhou
Contact person: Ms Hong
Contact number: 020-87376439
FAX: 020-87376380
Email: hhm@giecc.com.cn
The announcement is published on AIMIR’s website now. If you want to know more following details regarding to this competition, please feel free to contact AIMIR. What’s more, you’re more than welcome to touch base with us if you need architectural visualization.
With the theme of interweaving green corridors around the city, exploring integration of urban and suburb areas, and stimulating the city’s peripheral vitality space, Longgang District will build the “New Municipal Administration” engineering model project and improve the urban environment in an all-round way for a high-quality city proper suitable for residence, industry and tourism. With conventional municipal public facilities along railway lines, fire passages, and urban roads, new highlights of urban space quality improvement lie in building a pleasant urban micro-environment through the power of design and application of “New Municipal Administration” idea! In such a case, the Bureau of Public Works of Longgang District will launch the first “New Municipal Administration” engineering projects, give full play to the advantages of Longgang’s ecological background, build a number of backbone ecological corridors, realize the interconnection of ecological way, green way and eco-corridors, and build the ecological picture of “blue interwoven into green surrounded by mountains and rivers”.
“Forest Affinity Program” is a key theme first proposed by the Bureau of Public Works of Longgang District to build the new municipal administration engineering model. The first five landscape projects will be launched in conjunction with the competition for conceptual scheme design in the hope of breaking the stereotype of monotonous and tedious municipal facilities in the past, endowing a modern, engaging and diverse sense of design, fully tapping into the cultural value connotation of public facilities, and providing a new model for the design of municipal facilities in Longgang District and Shenzhen!
Project introduction
Application deadline: 18:00, July 29, 2022
The competition is consisted of 5 tracks:
— Track A —
Ecological Corridor Construction Project of Henggang Section of Pinghu-Yantian Railway
Fig 1. Schematic diagram of Ecological Corridor Construction Project of Henggang Section of Pinghu-Yantian Railway
Fig 2 Current situation of Henggang section of Pinghu-Yantian Railway
Design scope:The project is located in Henggang street, with the total corridor length of 4.5 km. As the Pinghu-Yantian Railway will be constructed underground in the long term, the original Pinghu-Yantian Railway existing tracks and its surrounding area will be released. The project construction includes greening landscape, theme park, innovation sharing garden, etc.
Key words: Industrial landscape, lineal cultural heritages, urban corridor and park system.
— Track B —
Quality Improvement Project of Industrial Avenue, Dayun AI Town, Longgang District
Fig 3. Schematic diagram of Industrial Avenue in AI Town
Fig 4 Current situation of industrial Avenue in AI Town
Design scope: The design scope includes Hongmian road and Xinyi road.
Hongmian road runs from east to west. The reconstruction starts from the municipal Jieneng indemnificatory housing project (Huamao Industrial Park road), ends at Nanping phase III auxiliary roads (Nanping East Avenue) and intersects Xinyi road. The road is about 1.5km long with a road grade of urban arterial road. The reconstruction road is 30.5-40m wide with a two-way six lane and the design speed of 50km / h.
Xinyi road runs from north to south. The reconstruction starts from the existing hongmian road and ends at the culvert opening under Shuijing-Guanjingtou Expressway (at the memorial archway of Henggang 228 Industrial Park). The road is about 500 meters long as an urban sub-arterial road. The width of red line is 25 meters and the reconstruction road is 40 meters wide with a two-way four lane and the design speed of 30km/h.
The main design contents include road reconstruction, landscape improvement and other municipal administration engineering. Including but not limited to: Henggang portal logo design, greening restoration of newly added overpass, existing slope and retaining wall, road greening and fence upgrading, building reconstruction, node upgrading at the intersection between Hongmian road and Xinyi road, substation and water supply pipe beautification, etc.
Rail Transit Phase 4 — Greening Restoration and Improvement Project of Longgang Section of Metro Line 14
Fig 5. Schematic diagram of Longgang section in Metro Line 14
Design scope: The project mostly restores and enhances the road surface and greening along the Longgang Section of Metro Line 14, including Buji, Nanwan, Henggang, Yuanshan, Longcheng and Baolong streets, and the total area is about 170,000 square meters.
Key words: Greening, water supply and drainage, electrical, soil and water conservation and linear landscape.
— Track D —
Buxin Mountain Fire Passage Construction Project
Fig 6 Schematic diagram 1 of current situation of Buxin Mountain
Fig 7. Schematic diagram 2 of current situation of Buxin Mountain
Fig 8 Current situation of Buxin Mountain
Design scope: The project proposes to build a forest fire passage in the Buxin Mountain area, taking into account the recreational function of the greenway. It will be interconnected with Jiazhou Garden Park, Qiushui Mountain Park, Zhangshubu Park and Luohu Taojin Mountain to create high-quality ecological recreational space. It crosses Longgang District and Luohu District, with an area of about 474ha including 138Ha in Longgang District and 336ha in Luohu District. In combination with the actual administrative situation, it is suggested that Longgang area be the main design scope of this competition, and excessive involvement in Luohu area should be reduced.
Key words: Forest fire passage, greenway system and outdoor recreational corridor.
— Track E —
Forest Fire Prevention Road Construction Project in Yuanshan Street
Fig 9. Schematic diagram of forest fire prevention roads in Yuanshan street
Fig 10 Current situation of Yuanshan street
Design scope: Located in Yuanshan street, the project has a total length of 40.11 km, including a total length of 24.27 km of new forest fire prevention roads and a total length of 15.84 km of upgraded existing forest fire prevention roads. The high point of the area where the project is located is Yantian Port. It is suggested to consider the setting of sea viewing platform in combination with the terrain.
Key words: Forest fire prevention roads, road system and landscape system.
Design Principles
Taking the landscape system as urban infrastructure: Taking the city as an ecological system, combine the infrastructure functions with the urban social and cultural needs through the construction and improvement of the landscape infrastructure, so as to build and extend the city and solve the problems faced by the city, such as climate change and population flow. Under the framework of the landscape system, the infrastructure construction supporting urban development, such as energy, water, transportation, food production, waste treatment and other elements, will be integrated in a new way to form a new urban supporting system; The infrastructure construction becomes to build a special landscape space, not just engineering facilities.
Solve problems in the comprehensive, overall, pragmatic and innovative ways.
Pay attention to modern, humanistic and diversified design sense to lead the times, face the future and make audacious renovation.
Follow the principle of ecological adaptability, enhance the connectivity and integrity of natural space network, and form an urban natural support system.
Deeply excavate the cultural value connotation of the new municipal landscape, emphasize the cultural characteristics of infrastructure, and ensure the integrity of ecosystem service function and local culture.
Give consideration to the operation management, activity organization and maintenance cost of “new municipal space”.
Design Requirements
It is expected that the design of each project will be based on an international perspective and enhance the ecological pattern of the Longgang area. Create a model of the bay area with blue and green interweaving, mountains surrounded by water, promote cultural integration and innovation, and create a charming urban area with bursts of vitality. By giving full play to the unique ecological resources, a main ecological corridor with Longgang characteristics will be created.
Integrating natural, ecological, creative, humanistic, historical and other resource elements, it has become a “forest-friendly plan” with both international quality and the original characteristics of the area, and a new platform for the integration of nature and the city. Create a new benchmark for the future-forward municipal landscape system that integrates ecological environment and urban imagery.
The design of municipal public facilities and landscape environment shall comply with the laws and regulations on the management of ecological protection red lines, forest fire protection, mountain protection, cultural relics protection, and basic ecological control line management. Introduce the principle of landscape priority into traditional municipal public facilities, reconstruct the landscape and municipal public space system in the area, use new technologies and new materials rationally, and create an urban micro-environment that is human, comfortable, rich, full of fun, distinctive, and suitable for movement and stillness.
Create a new municipal temperament of openness, collaboration and innovation, and build a design model of ecological adaptability and open and interconnected landscape. Build a system of rich natural ecological elements, taking into account the operation management, activity organization, and maintenance costs of the new municipal space.
Realize the interconnection of green roads, green roads and ecological corridors, and build an ecological pattern of “blue and green interweaving, mountains surrounded by water”. Create a new municipal public space with a great sense of design. Establish an intertwined cultural and ecological network to create a matrix of interaction and connection between man and nature.
Design Content
Stage I (application and pre-qualification): to ensure that the project is full of creative, forward-looking, artistic and scientific themes and ideas, and guides the development and implementation of the new municipal landscape design in the future, therefore, the overall understanding of the project at this stage consists of two parts:
combined with the overall promotion strategy of ” Beautiful Longgang with Mind-blowing Transformation “, put forward the overall strategy framework for building a new model of the ” New Municipal Administration – Forest Affinity Program ” project;
based on the above, put forward the design strategies and concepts for each track, and describe the design ideas and solutions by referring to the schematic diagram, concept sketch or benchmarking analysis of similar performance projects.
Stage II (Conceptual scheme design): carry out theoverall research for each track and select1-2 nodes as landscape conceptual design. The specific contents shall be determined after the shortlisted units are selected.
Requirements for application
The Competition will adopt “open application” without qualification restrictions. Units with relevant design experience from home and abroad may apply for participation, provided that applicants are independent legal person enterprise or institutions legally registered at home and abroad with valid business licenses or business registration certificates. The parent company, wholly owned subsidiary and its holding company with two and more legal representatives as the same person must not apply separately.
Consortium with no more than two members is allowed to apply. All consortium parties must not participate in the Competition in their own names separately or form a consortium with other units. The consortium parties need to sign a legal and valid Consortium Agreement, with the leading unit, all parties’ work content, the sharing ratio and allocation method of the workload clarified.
The Competition does not accept application of individuals and individual groups.
Competition rules
The Competition will be divided into two stages: Stage I: Open application and pre-qualification; Stage II: Conceptual scheme design.
Stage I: Open application and pre-qualification：The applicant is required to submit pre-qualification application documents, which mainly include company competence, design team competence and overall understanding of the Project. The host should set up a pre-qualification expert review jury according to the law, to review pre-qualification application documents submitted by all applicants. The jury will select seven shortlisted applicants (without ranking) and two alternative applicants (ranked) through open ballot (round-by-round elimination).
Stage II: Conceptual scheme design: In the conceptual scheme design stage, the design units shall carry out conceptual design for the important landscape nodes selected for each track. The seven shortlisted participating units should, as per the requirements of the Brief, submit the landscape conceptual design for key nodes in five tracks. The host should set up a scheme review jury according to the law, to review competition schemes. The scheme review jury should select the top three winning schemes (without ranking) of each track through the open ballot (round-by-round elimination).
COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Submission requirements
Design Fee
For the implementation scheme determined by each track, the scheme design fee is about 50% of the total design fee after deducting the competition bonus. The total design fee is calculated based on the Charge Standard, and multiplied by the correlation coefficient, with an increase of 20%. The detailed billing list of each item is as follows:
Setting of bonuses and design compensation fees
The seven shortlisted participating units that have entered the conceptual scheme design stage will respectively receive a design compensation fee of 300,000 yuan (about US$44,400);
The top three winners of each track will receive an extra bonus of 100,000 yuan (about US$14,800) respectively (winners may be selected repeatedly for each track).
The design unit selected for the implementation scheme will provide services for subsequent scheme development.
Material Acquisition
The Competition Document could be downloaded from “Shenzhen Urban Design Promotion Center – Competition Announcement”
Acquisition of design brief:
The interested applicant can send email to competition@ehow.net.cn to acquire the tendering design brief and aerial video, with email subject line indicated with: getting tendering design brief and aerial video of “Forest Affinity Program”: Competition for Schematic Design of First New Municipal Administration Landscape Projects. The competition organizater will send the design brief and aerial video link via email reply.
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