Ningbo Xiangshan People’s Square Urban Design & Landscape Competition

Ningbo Xiangshan People’s Square Urban Design & Landscape Competition

The competition site is located at the “People’s Square Station” TOD area of the Ningbo-Xiangshan Suburban Railway, which is the most valuable space to be developed in the center of Xiangshan. At present, with the improvement of transportation accessibility and expansion of economic structure, a more attractive urban center in the People’s Square area has become vital for the competitiveness of Xiangshan.

Xiangshan County will take advantage of the People’s Square TOD integrated development to introduce the functional renewal and upgrade of the urban core area, creating a robust public service core and a strong center with both attractiveness and local characteristics, and thus to respond and promote the leap of local development.

This competition is organized by the People’s Government of Xiangshan County. We sincerely invite global design and consulting institutions to participate in the co-creation of “Wanxiang Shanhai Drawing”. We look forward to a renewed People’s Square that not only serves as a destination for public services and urban lifestyle, but also a new cultural landmark and a strong point for Xiangshan’s city brand.

PROJECT CONTENT
The competition includes two sections: 1) urban design; 2) conceptual architecture and landscape design.
1） Urban design
The urban design scope is about 58 hectares.
Participating units are required to consider the public open spaces, public culture buildings, commercial, office, apartments and residential areas around the People’s Square Station to create an urban center with convenient traffic, a vibrant and friendly atmosphere, rational distribution, distinct characters, and ecological friendly environment.

2） Conceptual architecture and landscape design
The architecture and landscape design scope should be located in an area of about 27 hectares on the west side of Donggu Road. The specific scope shall be determined by the urban design scheme and shall at least cover the People’s Square and all public cultural and sports venues.
The participating units are required to integrate the architectural and landscape design for the People’ s Square， Public Fitness Center，Shanhai Wanxiang Hall ， Civic Reading Center with i30 Xiangxin Tower， to create a city public cultural center with the functions of culture, art, sports, exposition, education, etc., and to shape a set of landmark architectural cluster representing the cityscape and city spirit of Xiangshan.
a. People’s Square. An urban open space that provides functions such as large-scale festivals, outdoor sports, and natural recreation.
b. Public Fitness Center. It is made up of a 3,000-seat indoor arena, providing more than 20 functions including ball sports, recreational activities and so on. It will become the healthy lifestyle destination for Xiangshan locals.
c. Shanhai Wanxiang Hall (Museum and Urban Planning Exhibition Hall). This is a city experience center that exhibits the history and future urban plans of Xiangshan, and also serves as a destination of marine-ecology education and art exhibition. It aims to become the most important impression display interface of the city.
d. Civic Reading Center (Library). It shall accommodate more than one million books. As a new multi-purpose library, it also provides the functions such as performance-viewing, education and so on. It will become the social living room for citizens, bringing together spiritual islands, and be an imaginative ocean of knowledge, inspiring eternal exploration of the unknown.
e. i30 Xiangxin Tower (City Cultural Landmark). A Landmark that symbolizes the spirit of the maritime city, which also inspires an intense sense of belonging to the city. (* The “lighthouse” is not intended as a suggestion of architectural form.)

EXPERT JURORS

Mr. MENG Jianmin
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering;
Chief Architect of SZAD
Mr. LI Xiangning
Dean and Professor of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Mr. LU Zhongxiao
Executive Director of Nikken Sekkei Co.;
President of Nikken Sekkei (Shanghai) Consulting Co.
Mr. MA Weidong
Chinese partner of Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Initiating Founder of IAM
Mr. Tom Leader
Founder and principal of TLS Landscape Architecture

COMPETITION RULES
This international competition adopts the method of “open solicitation + invitation”, which is divided into the phase for public registration, qualification review, and proposal selection (referred to as “Proposal Selection Phase”) and the phase for design submission and final review (referred to as “Design Phase”).
1) Proposal Selection Phase: 3 participating unites are invited to be directly shortlisted for the next phase. In addition, the organizer will set up a review committee, and select 4 shortlisted units from the participating units (including consortium) of public registration, a total of 7 participating units will be shortlisted for the second phase.
2) Design Phase: After the 7 shortlisted units (including consortium) submit valid outcome documents, the organizer will set up a review committee to review the design works of the 7 shortlisted units.
For details and requirements, please refer to the RULES AND REGULATIONS.

SCHEDULE
Phase I: The phase for public registration, qualification review, and proposal selection
2022.05.10 Official announcement
2022.06.02（Tentatively） Offline kick-off meeting
2022.06.07（Tentatively） Registration deadline; Pre-qualification application documents (registration document + conceptual design proposal) submission end
2022.06.10（Tentatively） Pre-qualification review;Confirm 4 open registration shortlisted units (7 shortlisted units in total)
2022.06.12（Tentatively） Site Survey
Phase Ⅱ:The phase for design submission and final review
2022.08.12（Tentatively） Electronic deliverables submission deadline
2022.08.15（Tentatively） Submit hardcopy deliverables;On-site lottery for presentation order (Xangshan, Ningbo)
2022.08.15（Tentatively） Final review and award ceremony (Xiangshan, Ningbo)
*Note: The above time is subject to Beijing time. In view of uncontrollable factors such as the epidemic, the organizer reserves the right to adjust the schedule.

SUBMISSION
Participant units shall submit the registration documents and the conceptual design proposal as required. The conceptual design proposal can be used to express the design and ideas in a variety of forms such as separated chapters or a combination of graphics and text describing in detail the understanding of the project and the core intentions and ideas of the design. The content should ideally be 30 pages, in Chinese and English (For details and requirements, please refer to the RULES AND REGULATIONS).

The submission of electronic documents for competition registration will officially end at 16:00 on June 7, 2022 (GMT+8). All participating units are requested to submit the application documents (including the registration documents and the conceptual design proposal, which must be affixed with the official seal; if it is a consortium, all member units must affix their official seal or signature; electronic seal is acceptable) and send it to the following email address: [email protected], please indicate “Xiangshan Competition Application Documents Submitted + Name of Participating Unit” in the email title, and indicate the delivery method and courier information of the paper documents.

The paper documents should be sent or delivered to the following address by 16:00 on June 9, 2022 (GMT+8): Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Xiangshan County, No. 869 Danhe East Road, Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China; Attn: LIN Jiaxin, Tel: +86-15858433125 (mobile) +86-574-89522061 (landline), post code: 315700. The paper application documents should be printed on both sides, the registration documents and the conceptual design proposal should be bound into two separate volumes, A4 size, and submitted in 7 copies (the official seal must be affixed; if it is a consortium, all member units must affix their official seal or signature; electronic seal is acceptable). The documents must be sealed and packaged in one packaging bag, and the sealed bag shall be marked with “「HEART OF IMAGINATION」Ningbo Xiangshan People’s Square Area Urban Design and Conceptual Architecture and Landscape Design International Competition” and the name of the participating unit. The seal of the sealed bag must be kept sealed.

The Competition Committee will reply to the confirmation receipt after receiving both the electronic and the paper application documents and confirming that they are correct. Participating units who receive the confirmation receipt email represent successful registration. Taking into account the special circumstances of the epidemic, if the paper documents cannot be delivered on time due to force majeure, please contact the Competition Committee in advance to inform the situation and provide relevant certificates such as postmarks.

The content of paper documents and electronic documents must be consistent. If there is any difference, the electronic documents shall prevail. Documents received after the deadline will be rejected.

INVITED UNITS
After in-depth communication between the organizer and intending inviting participants, fully understood their profiles, design concepts, past cases, and preliminary interpretations of the project, three participants identified as invitees to be shortlisted.
1 UNStudio
2 Kengo Kuma and Associates
3 gmp International GmbH

CONTACTS
Ms. LU One-tenth +86-021 3377 3001, +86-156 1826 5030
Ms.LIN Natural Resources and Planning Bureau of Xiangshan County +86-158 5843 3125
Mr. ZHENG Xiangshan Municipal Construction Investment Group Co.,LTD +86-135-0668 9091
（10:00-12:00 & 14:00-17:00, Monday to Friday, Beijing Time）

E-mail
[email protected]