ASLA Professional Awards General Design --- Honor Award（2020）
By Beijing Forestry University / Atelier DYJG
评审委员会评语Jury Citation
Seven quarries across nearly 82 acres each provide unique terrains for exploring the potential for regrowth within widely varied conditions of scale and stability. These voids carved into the landscape offer different opportunities, from cliff-top aerie to sunken aquatic garden within the excavation; variable water levels in one quarry necessitate a floating pavilion. A raised pathway above an existing—and still functional—aqueduct connects these disparate quarry gardens, elevating visitors above shifting and potentially calamitous ground fluctuations with a unified design that allows unhindered observation of ground that is now productive in a more thoughtful way.
作品介绍 Introduction
2018 China International Garden Expo was held in Nanning, positioned along a river in the city’s hilly outskirts. Interspersed in the southeast section of the site is a series of quarries. The organizing committee hoped to transform seven of the relatively intact quarries into distinctive gardens displaying in the garden expo.
核心价值 Main Value
核心价值1：With safety as primary consideration, the setting of facilities and various paths intentionally avoid dangerous zones, while highlighting distinctive features of the quarry landscape. Moreover, safety measures were strictly implemented where necessary to prevent cliff-slide rock falls. According to the different goals of vegetation restoration, soil was introduced to earth up planting areas forming different soil thicknesses to create conditions for habitat restoration of the particularly large number of native plant species.
核心价值2：Although similar in appearance, the quarries vary from each other greatly in terms of scale, space structure, and characteristics. Landscape architects adopted various methods of intervention and vegetation restoration that complement each quarry’s distinctive qualities.
核心价值3：An existing aqueduct runs across the site, transporting water from nearby spring to surrounding villages and farms. As a witness of site’s agricultural history, it is well-preserved for irrigation water supply of the area, retaining its original function. Above the aqueduct is a pedestrian bridge that connects to the paths toward the adjacent quarry gardens, creating a unique three-dimensional tour system in this area. A 600m2 pavilion provides various tourist services such as sales, rest, shuttle bus ticketing, etc., and also showcases the history and eco-restoration processes and methods of the quarry gardens.
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（内容来源：Quarry Gardens in Nanning Garden Expo Park | ASLA 2020 Professional Awards）
