The winners for the Design The World You Want Student Ideas Competition were recently announced at the shortlist exhibition opening at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
The competition drew interest from across the world with entries from universities and educational institutions in Australia, China, France, Mexico, South Korea, the USA, Vietnam, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
Jury
Nelson Gomes (top left), Studio Lead – Melbourne, Arcadia Landscape Architecture (Melbourne, Australia)
Farinoosh Hadian Jazy (top right) – Landscape Project Consultant, LDA Design (London, UK)
James A. Lord (bottom left) – Founder and Owner of Surfacedesign, Inc (San Francisco, USA)
Claire Martin (bottom middle) – Associate Director, Oculus (Melbourne, Australia)
Dr Alessio Russo, PhD (bottom right) – Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia)
The jury reviewed the students’ entries and found that many designs met the brief and embraced the potential of the competition site and the Australian context. The jury has decided the winners as follows:
Winner
Ground in Friction | Chaowu Li, Zicheng Zhao, Jiewen Hu – University of Pennsylvania;
External Supervisor: Yuehui Gong
Jury Notes
Ground in Friction explores layers of time and addresses sea-level rise, and offers ecological richness and the effective use of materials, making it feel like a place to visit and explore. It provides visitors with more opportunities to have different experiences and is somewhere you would like to visit again and again, as it changes over time.
Runner Up
Reweaving Docklands | Sunmin Kwon – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; Yena Kim – The University of Melbourne;
Jury Notes
Recognised for its technical strength and appreciated for utilising water filtration through a system of floating sponges. The presentation provides a holistic design approach, communicating the ideas through plans, sections, and perspective representations. The design also balanced the brief’s requirements with the site context.
The winners will receive their prize in the coming days, and the finalists will receive their PDF certificates in the coming week.
Thank you to all students who entered the ideas competition and provided thought-provoking designs for the Harbour Esplanade.
The Design The World You Want Student Ideas Competition was supported by Arcadia, ASPECT Studios, Hassell and Hansen Partnership.