Golden A' Design Award Winner 2022
QIDI DESIGN GROUP's landscape intervention operates within rich symbolic traditions connecting garden design to philosophical contemplation of nature-culture relationships, the serpentine pathway functioning as an archetypal journey motif that transforms simple movement through space into experiential narrative with implications of discovery, transition, and arrival. The curving path references classical garden design principles wherein indirect approach amplifies anticipation and rewards attention, each bend revealing new perspectives while concealing what lies beyond, creating a choreography of revelation that mirrors contemplative practices of gradual understanding. The architectural pavilion, positioned as terminus and beacon, assumes archetypal resonances of shelter, sanctuary, and enlightenment, its transparency suggesting openness and honesty while its luminosity at twilight evokes traditional associations between light and knowledge, warmth and welcome, the hearth fire visible from without as invitation to community. Chromatic symbolism throughout reinforces these readings: green traditionally associated with growth, renewal, and natural vitality; white suggesting purity, clarity, and transcendence of material concerns; gold connoting preciousness, solar warmth, and spiritual illumination. The choice of twilight as representational moment carries particular symbolic weight, this liminal time traditionally associated with transformation, threshold crossing, and the permeability of boundaries between different states of being. The retained mature trees function as symbols of continuity, wisdom, and connection to histories predating the architectural intervention, their presence suggesting respect for established conditions rather than dominance over them. Geometric symbolism emerges in the dialogue between the organic curves of pathway and vegetation against the orthogonal precision of architecture, a visual philosophy proposing complementarity rather than opposition between natural and constructed realms. The layered spatial organization from canopy through understory to ground plane mirrors cosmological structures found across cultural traditions, suggesting hierarchies of experience from the immediate and material through intermediate zones toward more transcendent realms.
The water line has been turned on and shifts through the whole site plan, shifts the emphasis the water history culture of Dan yang from commercial to social connecting to the nature. The mirror water courtyard accessible public open space to variability of activities.The results to encourage visitors to have memorable through the enjoyment of the diverse community. Art sculptures light up the communal atmosphere. The experience of the integration of tradition and modernity, is shuttle in nature, a journey chasing the light.