Congratulations to China Construction Design Group for winning a 2019 ASLA Honor Award in General Design for Yellowhorn Farm Park: Battling The Threat of Desertification! #ASLAawards #NationalASLAWinner #ASLAProAwards2019 #LandscapeArchitecture
.
.
.
.
.
Project Statement: The Yellowhorn Farm Park project, built in 2014, is a 150-acre hilltop of yellowhorn farmland located in Aohan County in Inner Mongolia, China. Inner Mongolia is China’s third largest province, and has been battling severe desertification for over a century. Over-grazing, logging, expanding farms, population pressure, wind, and drought have all turned this once-fertile grassland into sandy a plain. In the past 20 years, approximately three million acres of desert have been rehabilitated through enormous local and national effort. This project site is one of the most representative fields of this type of transformation, from severe desert to flourishing farm. The particular location of the overlook platform of this park was an onsite temporary office, during those years of fighting desertification, serving as a hub, providing space for observation, organization, rest, and service to thousands of workers devoted to fighting desertification. With an intention towards minimal environmental intervention, the landscape design team integrated historical resources (i.e., materials, plants, and construction methods) with contemporary uses (i.e., education, recreation, and technology integration) to commemorate several generations of effort to combat desertification and provide ecological, recreational, educational, and economic benefit to the local area.
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
.
.
.
.
.
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.
.
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
.
.
.
.
.
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.
