Project Overview
The " Mountain Moon" project is located in Nanjing, It relies on the lush forest environment of Zijin Mountain. The design uses local materials to continue the memory of the mountain forest and employs contemporary landscape vocabulary to reshape the site's value, achieving an innovative interpretation of the traditional Chinese landscape. By building a community operation system, involving residents in co-construction, and flexibly integrating urban functions, creating a city-friendly shared community and achieving coexistence between the community and nature.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Beijing Sunshine Landscape Co.,Ltd
Team
Ting Yang,Yue Dai,Yue Wang,Yujuan Zhao,Yiming Zhang,Guyue Guo,Congcong Hou,Da Gao,Yifei Wang,Weiguang Zhu
Project Brief
The spatial narrative of mountain-city integration: The design seeks to preserve the native vegetation to the greatest extent possible. By creating an organic linkage through vertical activation and horizontal stitching, it constructs a soft transition zone from the mountain forest to the city.
Exploring a New Model of Harmonious Shared Community: The design establishes a comprehensive living service system for residents, incorporating public service facilities such as an ideal community library, a traditional Chinese medicine therapy center, and an unmanned supermarket. It constructs a "15-minute healthy living circle," reshapes the new model of a community cultural community, and leads the development of intelligent and convenient living spaces, empowering a brand-new living experience.
Project Innovation/Need
Multi-dimensional Shared and Co-built Community: Resident Co-building and Co-governance: Homeowners participate in landscape planning, selecting and planting key trees and shrubs via interactive platforms, and organizing community activities. This enhances their sense of belonging and responsibility, improves governance efficiency, and boosts well-being.
Design Challenge
Flexible Urban Function Integration: The design sets back 20 meters from the municipal boundary to create public space. It integrates multi-functional areas for rest and sports, facilitating a smooth transition between urban and community spaces and activating the area's vitality.
Sustainability
Construction of an Ecological Rain Garden System: The design features naturally permeable ecological gravel swales to filter and collect rainwater. The gravel is sourced and processed locally from Zijin Mountain. With dynamic curves that mimic natural streams, the system creates a garden-like landscape space and constructs an "ecologically breathable soil capillary network."
Ecological Design of the Fifth Facade: The fifth facade design, based on the concept of a "vertical forest," mimics the natural habitat by planting native herbaceous plants such as red maple and citrus, along with low shrub communities and shallow-rooted trees like crape myrtle and osmanthus. This creates a three-dimensional and complete ecological corridor system. It minimizes the disturbance of urban living on the mountain forest ecosystem and provides a resting place for birds, thus preserving the environment for biodiversity to the greatest extent. This design allows the architecture to seamlessly integrate with the natural mountain forest, achieving a harmonious coexistence.
Architecture - Residential - International
This award celebrates the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow.
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