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​Park City, The Garden of Future: School of Design Students Awarded in the Chengdu Park City International Garden Festival

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The 2021 Chengdu Park City International Garden Festival and the 4th BFU International Garden-Making Festival were provisionally rearranged in mid-September 2021. The Festival aims to promote the spirit of craftsmanship and to cultivate the creativity of landscape architects and students through drawings, models and practices. The festival also provides an opportunity to integrate material construction and artistic expression. The theme this year was “Park City, Garden of Future.” The student work “A Cloud on Mars” by the Shanghai Jiao Tong School of Design won the Award of Excellence.

A Cloud on Mars

Team Members: ZHANG Le, ZHU Zhangchun, YAO Jiaxian, LAI Jiani, ZHANG Chenyuan, GAO Xing, WANG Haozhe, WANG Jiayun

Advisor: ZHANG Yang, YU Bingqin

In the future, human beings will expand their habitat to Mars (called “Yinghuo” in ancient times) to cope with the deterioration of the Earth's environment. They will explore ways to build on Mars primitive forms of nature of earth, hoping to replicate the natural environment of the earth on Mars and to make structures a part of it. Bamboo, a lightweight natural material, can survive and even grow rapidly in the extreme temperatures and high concentrations of carbon dioxide on Mars. Thus, the “cloud” form, together with bamboo, a natural building material, are artificially transported to build a spiritual healing garden on Mars to retain people's thoughts of Earth. It makes the garden an independent and vibrant space, separating the desolation of the naked land of Mars and allowing visitors to find spiritual solace from the shackles of the world.

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