On September 30, 2022, the winners of the 2022 ASLA Student Competition were announced. The project "Cell Growth Dish – Brownfield Landscape Ecological Restoration Design" from the School of Architecture, Tianjin University won the General Design Category Honor Award.
The American Society of Landscape Architects Awards (ASLA Awards), with two sub-categories Professional Award and Student Award, are among the most acknowledge landscape architecture awards worldwide. The ASLA Student Award is aimed to honor students for their exploration and innovation in the landscape field.
With a total number of 459 submissions from students across the world, there are only 19 projects awarded in eight categories (compared to 35 projects awarded in 2021).
The jury, led by Mark Hough, FASLA, the university landscape architect at Duke University, included the educators Jessica Canfield, ASLA, of Kansas State University and Monique Bassey, ASLA, of Louisiana State University, several designers in private practice, and the incoming president of ASLA, SuLin Kotowicz, FASLA.
——Landscape Architecture Magazine
TJU AWARD-WINING WORK
General Design Category Honor award
Cell Growth Dish – Brownfield Landscape Ecological Restoration Design
Project Team
Students: Ke Dong, Zhuoran Chen
Faculty Advisor: Yan Wang
Project Comment
Just a stunning combination of research, planning, and design. It effectively describes a problem and, in detail, presents a convincing solution that exemplifies the best of student work.
-2022 Awards Jury
Project Statement
The port of Tianjin, once the fifth largest port in the world, carried a huge volume of trade traffic. In 2015, a sudden explosion of hazardous chemicals in a warehouse shattered all prosperity. A large amount of brownfield soil from the explosion site needed to be contaminated. The loss of chemical components in the environment caused varying degrees of contamination and caused intense unease among the surrounding population. The hard-hit Tianjin citizens and firefighters desperately longed for a place to soothe their inner grief.
This proposal presents a comprehensive strategy from a multi-faceted need. Treat the explosion site as a cell growth dish. The solution concept and strategy design extracts two forces acting within the cell culture dish. The force of scattering from the center outward is used as the conceptual foothold, fitting the impact of the explosion from the center outward. The external inward extrusion growth force is used as a strategy to achieve the contamination decontamination of the site from the perspective of bioremediation.
Complete drawings and detailed design notes for the proposal can be found in the October issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine or on the website of ASLA at https://www.asla.org/.
