Shanghai, China
Z+T Studio was founded by Dong Zhang and Ziying Tang in Shanghai in 2009. Since then the uniquely diverse work the firm has completed has ranged from city furniture, an ASLA award-winning research centre, to master planning. Z+T Studio’s portfolio has gained a solid and critical reputation for the firm for its ingenious, yet original landscape answers to projects and sites.
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Considering landscape architecture’s social and psychological impact to people’s sense of well-being, Z+T Studio is interested in making a place where the fundamental natural landscape elements and principles could integrate and optimize the increasingly urbanized environment for the inhabitants. By inviting and encouraging people’s participation and exchange among themselves and nature, the place is cultivated and enriched by the site’s cultural associations.
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The project is located in an existing locust forest at the ARANYA gold coast resort in Beidaihe, Qinhuangdao. It is an outdoor playground & farm for children throughout the resort. The design proposal divides the site into two parts: a quiet meditation space in the forest and a joyful lively farm on the edge of the forest.
Water is the leading design element which links the two gardens of Yueyuan Courtyard together. In the creek garden, the concept of “erosion” inspired the design team to create a creek water feature. The water feature craved out from large granite stone artfully demonstrates the natural process how river goes through land surface for hundreds of years and transforms the land into river valley.
As an active exploration of urban space renewal in Z+T Studio, Vanke Times Central Plaza started from three aspects: improving the urban interface, ameliorating the public space, and shaping the business office environment. Following the theme of “Time”, we have created a series of landscape elements including: “Aurora Waterscape”, “Nebula Seat” and “24 Solar Terms Pavement”, aim to create a urban plaza with complete functions, distinctive features and characteristics of the time.
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Research into landscape ecology, techniques, and materials combined with the utilization of modular concrete as pavers, benches and bike racks drives the design of the Vanke Research Center project. Permeable material is used on sidewalks and access routes. Different materials and plants are designed for storm water collection and retention, based on the latest techniques and taking into consideration the domestic climate in different parts of China.
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Structures, landform, water features, and building materials were carefully designed and crafted. The introduction of plants and trees adds to the sense of outdoor space as ‘outdoor living rooms’ and enhances private gardens. Yongtai Garden is a 2.5-acre triangular suburban lot in the midst of a gated community of single families in Shanghai, China.
As an active exploration of an ideal urban community park, Jiadu Central Park starts from four aspects: building community culture, meeting daily needs, carrying out ecological environment education and providing healthy environment for the next generation. All kinds of in-depth thinking are fully reflected in every design detail of the park, aiming to create a community park with complete functions, distinctive features and certain era significance.
Z+T Studio design team positioned this site as a children’s playground with the purpose of edutainment, an open-air water experience pavilion, which is inspired by various forms and features of water to design landscape spaces and nodes, so that people better understand the importance of water to life and reshape the relationship between human and water.
