Congratulations to Yantong Guo, International ASLA, of @uoftdaniels for winning a 2019 ASLA Student Honor Award for Community Beyond the [Fence] - Community Building through Landscape Intervention Strategies in Ger Districts, Ulaanbaatar! #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #STEM
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Project Statement: In Mongolia a new type of urbanized landscape called ger district has emerged that combines the nomadic yurt settlement pattern with informal urban settlement at the periphery of Ulaanbaatar. This neighborhood lack basic utilities and services such as heating and sewage. With the increasingly harsh winters, this area's social and environmental system will face even more pressures.
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The project's topic is community beyond the fence. Instead of removing and redeveloping the area as a new dense urban district, the proposal draws on the existing patterns to create a bottom-up approach to the environment and social challenges in the ger districts. It is trying to build an alternative community structure through landscape intervention strategies. The community would be based on a new self-supported resource circulation which could release the environmental problems in the district such as air, soil and groundwater pollution. In the proposal, landscape approaches could act as an initial point to change people`s way of thinking and people can improve the living environment by themselves.
Congratulations to Adam DeHeer, Associate ASLA, Nicholas Sund, Student ASLA, Summer Young, Associate ASLA, Emma Hershey, Student ASLA, from @uoregon for winning the 2019 ASLA Award of Excellence in Residential Design for Codesigning Green Sanitation Infrastructure: A Framework for Informal Settlements! #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #STEM #LandscapeArchitecture
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Project Statement: Cleaning water and the environment with green sanitation infrastructure provides a framework for a thriving urban ecosystem where human waste is transformed into resources to grow food, plant-based products, and create urban habitat.
Congratulations to @mvla.ltd for winning a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in General Design for Sundance Square Plaza, The Heart of Fort Worth! #ASLAawards #nationalaslawinner #aslaproawards2019 .
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Project Statement: Texans are famous for a charismatic hospitality that blends traditional values with a genuine good time. Fort Worth's Sundance Square Plaza is a prism for this practice at a large scale, a place where everyone can feel at home. The former parking lots on Main Street welcome thousands of visitors weekly to a dynamic tableau nestled within the rich architectural detailing of the city. Equally welcoming on a peaceful morning or a lively evening, the Plaza's water and light form the backdrop for public life. Its interactive fountains and giant, operable umbrellas provide opportunities to play and relax unlike any other in the surrounding area, complementing a diverse community program that revels in everything from daily exercise to festive annual celebrations. Forming one of the safest, cleanest, and most walkable areas in the city, this spirited social hub is known as the Heart of Fort Worth.
