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Landscape architecture project led by PKU students wins ASLA Student Community Service Award
Sep 08, 2020
Peking University, September 8, 2020The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the 2020 Student Award winners on September 4. Co-created Campus: Participation Design in Action, a project carried out by masters students from the College of Architecture and Landscape of Peking University, won the Student Community Service Award.
 
Co-created campus was initiated by landscape architecture students calling on all students to take immediate action to promote campus environment quality. To relieve the serious waterlogging on campus, an underuse green space was converted to a rain garden. Landscape architecture students have multi-role as users, planners, designers and coordinators who employ participatory design to establish close cooperation among different stakeholders, like students, schools and professionals. After two months of construction, the garden was put into use in October 2019.

 
 Participation of students, administrators and professionals

 

The garden was put into use in October 2019, providing an easy-to-reach place for student to take a break

The success of this 300 project not only accelerates the school to carry on the renovation of the whole school storm water system, but also arouses the sense of responsibility and confidence among all students to promote their immediate surroundings. In the process of co-creation, the value of sustainability, storm water management and landscape design could be fully understood and disseminated across the whole community.
 
According to the 2020 Awards Jury, Peking University is a time-honored university, and some of its drainage is just as antiquated, resulting in severe campus flooding during Beijing’s rainy season. Members of the College of Architecture and Landscape, eager to put their education to immediate use, embarked upon a pilot case study to transform an underused lawn into a bio-retention garden as a showcase for potential campus upgrading. Though small in scale—the garden is roughly 3,230 square feet (300 square meters)—it already has had an immeasurable impact, gaining enough student support to open campus-wide, cross-departmental conversations on environmental improvement.
 
The ASLA Awards, which consist of Professional Award and Student Award, represent the highest honor in the profession of landscape architecture. They honor the best and most innovative landscape architecture projects from around the globe and give a glimpse into the future of the profession.
 
Chosen from 560 submissions, this year’s 35 Student Award winners represent a bright and more inclusive future of the landscape architecture profession in the General Design, Urban Design, Residential Design, Analysis & Planning, Research, Communications, Student Collaboration, and Student Community Service categories. The Student Community Service Award recognizes pro bono community service by students demonstrating sound principles and values of landscape architecture. The jury will consider the effectiveness related to the service and the demonstration value to other communities, students, and professionals.
 
Edited by: Huang Weijian
Photo credit to: Zhuo Kangfu, Zhang Hao, Zhong Jielan, Jinglin Group
Source: American Society of Landscape Architects
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