— 2008 Professional Awards Jury Comments

此项景观设计为同类项目设立了新的标准。就可持续生存来说，多户集合住宅将日益重要，而景观建筑则是保证生活愉悦舒适的关键所在。丰富多样的植物和材质带来了极大的视觉肌理和兴趣，邀您步入其中。

                   2008专业大奖评审团评语

PROJECT STATEMENT: A landscape design reinterpreting the idealistic Chinese lifestyle and responding sensitively to the context. The simplicity and poetry is well-aided by the outstanding execution, demonstrating the innate serenity with traditional continuity. The preferences of local materials and native plants celebrate the locality and preserve the precious features. It gives an excellent answer to the question: how to integrate architecture, landscape and culture into serving the utmost important purpose-catering to the need, in the contemporary context.

项目陈词：一项重新阐述理想的中国生活方式、并敏锐地对周边环境予以回应的景观设计。杰出的实施保证了简洁和诗意，并以传统的一致性表达了内在的静谧。对乡土材料和植物的偏爱，加强了地方性且保存了宝贵的特质。由此精彩地回答了这一问题：如何将建筑、景观和文化整合起来，以服务于最重要的目标——在当代的背景下满足用户需求。

PROJECT NARRATIVE: This program is a community landscape design for a 40-townhouse real-estate project located on a 2.7-hectare site in Beijing. Situated on the 5th ring of Beijing, the metropolis’ suburban edge, the site is in the vicinity of Fragrant Hill and Yuquan Hill, which is distinguished by the landscape architect as the extraordinary potentials.

项目简介：这是一个有40户TOWNHOUSE住宅、基地面积仅为2.7公顷的房地产开发项目。位于北京五环以外，大都市的边缘，却临近香山和玉泉山，恰恰是这一因素被设计师发挥了惊人的潜质而予以强化。

As a residential landscape design striving for reinterpretation of Chinese idealistic lifestyle and simultaneously catering to the need of modern people, it integrates concerns involving architecture, landscape and nature. This landscape design is comprised of a sequence of three spaces, of which the entrance approach flows to the upper terrace of the site and introduces the main terrace. The entrance approach is emphasized by the tall rubble wall combined with aspens planted aside, framing the houses and providing a sense of enclosure from the street. At the same time the rough material of the walls is well contrasted with the delicate black entrance door. The main terrace, dominating by the reflecting pool-“the reflected sky”, acts as the heart of the program. The pool’s triangle shape is an indication of how simple and elegant the design could be to coordinate pavement, plants and gradual slope into the single effort to craft the space to be a delightful one. Withstanding the limited scale of it, the reflecting pool eliminates this feeling by functioning as a mirror of the dramatic sky. Framed by a Chinese flowering crab apple(Chaenomeles sinensis), this terrace also enables one to encounter the panoramic view of the lavish mountain ranges of Fragrant Hill and Yuquan Hill, since it locates on the view corridor of the two. “The spring space”, on one side of the pool, represents the tight continuity between the different parts of the design. Utilizing the existing slope, it is designed to be an overflow pool to interpret the unifying element-water in another form. Between “the reflected sky” and “the spring space” is the transitional area planting bamboos, serving the purpose of separating the two distinct parts, also as a buffer between the serenity and liveliness. Yet all the three part-bamboo forest, “the reflected sky” and “the spring space”, are seamlessly integrated to the harmonious elegance. The lower terrace is comprised of a recessed sitting area with fragrant flowers and a reflective pool in the shape of rectangle, at the south end of which a mirror is placed in order to extend the horizons into infinity and create the meditative atmosphere.

作为一个住宅景观设计，该项目致力于重新阐述中国理想的生活方式并同时迎合现代人们的需求，统筹考虑了建筑、景观和自然。这个景观设计由顺次展开的三个空间组成，其中入口区引向基地的上层平台，并引向排屋区。入口区由高高的石墙，将房子隔离开来，并创造了相对于街道的封闭感。同时，墙体的粗犷材料又与精致的黑色入口大门形成鲜明对比。排屋区，为带反射性的水池——“反射的天空”所主宰，成为整个项目的中心。池子的三角形表明，通过协调铺地、植物和缓坡，这个设计可以达到怎样的简单和优雅，并将此空间变成一个令人愉悦的部分。尽管尺度很小，但这个池子通过以明镜般的反射天空削弱了这种感觉。这个平台的高度也使人们全景领略到香山和玉泉山的开敞视野，因为项目本身位于两山的视线走廊里。泉水空间，在池子的另外一端，代表了该设计在不同部分之间的紧凑的一致性。利用现状的斜坡，将此设计成流水满溢、以另一种形式来表达统一的水元素。在反射的天空和泉水空间之间，是栽有竹子的过渡区，用来将两个截然不同的部分分隔开来，同时也作为宁静和活力之间的缓冲。但是所有三个部分——竹林、反射的天空和泉水空间，被无缝地整合在一起形成统一的和谐与优雅。较低一层的排屋区由后退的休憩区和芬芳的花草、以及一个长方形的反射水池组成，在南端设有一面镜子，试图将空间延伸到无限，并创造思考的氛围。

Actually,the basic idea of the landscape spots mentioned above were derived from the conception of Li Ao, the Tang maestro of literature, who concisely generalized the keys to ideal hillside dwelling from a special point of view. During a field trip to the Lingjiu Temple, he was inspired and wrote: All hillside dwellings rely on strange rocks and surprising peaks, running waters, deep pools, old trees, nice herbs, fresh flowers, and visual depth to acquire serenity’ Afterwards, people call these seven points ‘Seven Keys to Fine Hillside Dwellings’. Among these seven points, the last one considering the sound visual relationship between the dwelling and its surroundings is in fact the critical point of a nice hillside dwelling, which is also the key point of this project.

事实上，上述景点的基本理念来自于唐代的文学大师Li Ao的概念，此人精准地总结了理想的山居生活的要素。在前往灵鹫寺实地考察的路上，他灵感突发提笔写道：所有的山居均有赖于奇峰怪石，流水，深潭，古树，奇花异草，以及获得精密感的视觉深度。在这七个方面中，最后一项认为居住和环境之间的声音视觉关系实际上是精致山居生活的要点，而这也成为了本项目的要点。

Special features: Under the premise of the specific circumstances of the site, the landscape architect’s striving for serenity, simplicity and more importantly, the contemporary interpretation of metaphysical idealistic lifestyle, profoundly roots in the traditions of western landscape design and Chinese culture. The effort expresses itself ranging from the culturally sensitive response to the context to the preference of native plants. By reinterpreting the highly appreciated Chinese ideal of poetic mountain residence in a contemporary context, the project demonstrates to what extent innate integrity and harmony strike a chord can.

项目特色：在基地特有环境的前提下，景观建筑师对于静谧、简洁，以及更为重要的——形而上的理想生活方式的当代阐释——的追求，深深地植根于西方景观设计和中国文化的双重传统。这种努力表达了其自身，从文化上的敏感反应到对乡土植物的偏爱。通过在当代语境下重新阐述备受好评的诗意的中国山居生活，此项目表明在何种程度上可以达到内在的和谐与整体性。

How to achieve the sense of identification among community members is one of the chief concerns of the designer. But there appears to be a contradiction between this goal and the fact that after assigning each house its own yard, the space left is quite limited. By the pool, “the reflected sky”, dominating the plan, the design successfully extricates itself form the undesirable possibility that it could not provide the necessary sensation of unification. The emphasis of the center and the seamless connection between architecture and landscape is further extended to the south edge of the site. To overcome the restricted depth of it, a mirror is placed at the end of “the spring space”, by which the line of vision is guided toward the infinity, effectively creating the sensation of meditation.

要在社区居民中实现认同感也是设计人员主要关心的一个问题。但在这个目标和将院落分配给每个房子之后，剩下的空间就相当有限了。通过这个池子，“反射的天空”，主宰了这个规划，这个设计成功地 中心的强调以及建筑和地景之间的无缝连接，进一步被延伸到基地的南端。为了克服起深度的不足，一面镜子被置于泉水空间的尽端，借助于此视线被引向无限，有效地创造了思考的感觉。

The pasture style of the townhouses, even derived from eastern tradition, can hardly co-exist in harmony with literal Chinese classic landscape design. To achieve the innate continuity of Chinese culture, it is preferable to reinterpret conventional forms in a modern way and explore the new possibilities in material rather than the simple replication of history. By adopting the dark grey rubble walls which respond sensitively to the slope, the design gained the distinct rustic characteristic of Beijing villages. Enhanced by the contemporary landscape design scheme, this project demonstrates easily recognizable integrity.

这些TOWNHOUSE的田园风格，虽然也来自于东方传统，但几乎无法与自由的中国传统景观设计和谐共处。要实现中国文化的内在统一，最好的办法是将传统形式以现代的方式重新阐述并用材料探索新的可能性，而不是简单地复制历史。通过采用与斜坡呼应的深灰色碎石墙，设计获得了独特的北京村庄的特征。在当代地景设计手法的强化下，这个项目轻松地表达了可被识别的整体性。