This competition is co-sponsored by Shenzhen Urban Management Bureau and People’s Government of Longgang District, organized by Urban Management Bureau of Longgang District and Bantian Sub-district Office, and co-organized by Urban Planning, Land & Resources Commission of Longgang District, Culture & Sports Tourism Bureau, Publicity Department, Bureau of Development & Reform, Finance Bureau, Environmental Protection & Water Affairs Bureau, Urban Renewal Bureau, Land Organize Center.

Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone is the area of strategic importance in leading creative industry of the Pearl River Delta participating in international competition and cooperation, the demonstration area of Shenzhen Eastward Development Strategy, and the key development area of Shenzhen. This competition is held according to Shenzhen’s objective of creating the “Cleanest City of the Country” and “World Renowned Flower City”, and building “National Forest City” work arrangement, and in order to improve quality of the core area of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, connect to the overall urban planning execution plan of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, and ensure periodical results are enacted.

This design competition should has an worldly vision, learns from development experiences of developed areas of the globe, unites international top-rank design wisdom, and fully enhances “rooted in local, embrace the world” creative spirits. Should connect the urban quality improvement plan and current problems that need to be dealt with urgently, make sure the plan can be implemented in the near future, and strive to make a substantial improvement of urban quality of this area in a relatively short time period, and then improve overall urban service and competitiveness of the area. At the same time, through the improvement in spatial quality, drive local cultural quality to improve, strive to reach the realm and height of “express local essence through culture”, gradually reach the development goal of “city-industry integration, green and humane smart city pioneer demonstration area”.

This competition includes four projects: “Bantian in the Forest” Surrounding Suburban (distinctive) Parks Holistic Conceptual Design Plan International Competition, Ban Xue Gang Art Center and Surrounding Block Architecture Conceptual Design Plan International Competition, Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Improve Greenery and Landscape Design of Urban Streets and Nodes International Competition, and Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Urban VI and Application Design International Competition.

In order to let prospective design institutions to prepare for sign up work, we now announce relative information below:

Competition Rules:

This Competition has two stages, the first stage is open sign up and qualification examination; the second stage is design competition.

A. The first stage: open sign up and qualification examination

1. Build Qualification Examination Committee, members are constituted of 5 representatives who are familiar with the industry design level and have background in the industry of architecture, landscape architecture, and art design, etc. Qualification Examination Committee will have a committee chair to host examination work, the committee chair will be generated through recommendation, and have the same power in decision as other members; specific qualification rules will be decided by Qualification Examination Committee.

2. Methods of qualification examination. Qualification Examination Committee will use disclosed ballot method to examine qualification, achievement, prospective project team, and project plan of participation teams, and according to the ranked scores, determine the top 5 teams that will get design compensation, and two alternate teams (also to be ranked), if the top 5 teams drop out of the second stage, then alternate teams can substitute according to their rank. Other teams that pass qualification examination also gain qualification to enter the second stage of design competition.

B. The second stage: design competition

1. Build Plan Examination Committee, members are constituted of 7 renowned experts in the industry from China or other countries. The committee chair will be hosting the examination work of Plan Examination Committee, and has equal right to vote. Plan Examination Committee will determine specific examination rules.

2. Participation teams submit final files that meet the requirements of design assignment. Plan Examination Committee will examine all submitted design plans, and chose the top 2 teams, provide review, and recommend to the sponsors. The sponsors will research and determine the rank of the top 2 winning teams on the basis of fully respect expert review opinions.

Below is the basic information of the four competition projects:

I. “Bantian in the Forest” Surrounding Suburban (distinctive) Parks Holistic Conceptual Design Plan International Competition

a. Project Background

Bantian Area has a relatively good basis in ecological resources. It has 6 suburb mountain parks in the surrounding area, but they lack connection to urban lives, and are in urgent need of reform to make accessible to the citizens, need convenient transportation passageway connecting to the built area of the city; currently between and inside the parks are segmented by multiple railways, highways, and expressways, need to use extremely creative and feasible method to sew up the segmented nodes and edges, connect the suburb parks surrounding Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone as a whole.

b. Competition Goal

Collect extremely creative and feasible plan, build convenient passageway, sew up nodes and edges segmented by urban railways, highways, and expressways in Bantian Area, connect urban build up area and suburb parks, transform existing ecological green space into accessible suburb parks to the citizens, make the suburb parks surrounding Bantian Sub-district a whole.

c. Competition Content

This competition project contains design on 3 layers, respectively are conceptual planning and research range, holistic connect design range, and specific design of nodes. The key point is to complete master layout conceptual plan of the 6 suburb parks, solve connection problem between the parks, like connect segmented nodes and edges by highway and expressway, greenways inside the parks and urban greenways, and suburb parks and urban build up area. Specific content is the overall landscape and greenery conceptual plan of the parks, connection plan between the park and urban greenways; important infrastructure design, including climbing route (expedition trail, stairs trail, gentle slope trial, round-reservoir sightseeing trail, and leisure trail), main observation deck and ecological passageway, etc.; small-scale infrastructure (resting point, toilet, seats, lights, and trash cans, etc.); park signage system and emergency distress signal system design; in addition, should include detailed design of three entrance nodes to the park.

d. Sign up Requirements

In this competition, individual institution signing up as a design team should have landscape architecture class A qualification; to design team of multiple institutions, at least one of them should have landscape architecture class A qualification.

Design institution that have intention to sign up should submit sign-up file before the deadline provided in the formal announcement. Sign up file contains business documents and conceptual proposal.

1. Business documents

1) Credential documents, including company introduction, industrial & commercial registration documents, and qualification certificate, etc.;

2) Documents of past design projects of the same kind, including project introduction, completion status, photos of the project, and award certificate, etc.;

3) Materials of prospective team members, including a list of team members, resume, and proofing materials of chief designer leading other projects of the same kind, etc.

2. Conceptual proposal

Conceptual proposal should state understanding of this project, analysis of characteristics and resources of this area, overall planning and design of the parks, and design ideas of part of the nodes (depth of design is not limited).

The proposal should be within 15 pages, paper size A3. It should clearly state design concept in principle, and let judges accurately get the core of design intention.

II. Ban Xue Gang Art Center and Surrounding Block Architecture Conceptual Design Plan International Competition

a. Project Background

The municipal party committee, municipal government, district party committee, and district government clearly propose to build high quality cultural and art center in Bantian as soon as possible, promote cultural quality of the

district. Through allocation research at earlier stage, the decision is to fully make use of Golden Mountain Park and supplied landmass from surrounding projects to build Ban Xue Gang Art Center.

b. Competition Goal

Collect world-class, extremely creative, rich in regional cultural characteristics design plan, make art center a future landmark and cultural heritage of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone.

c. Competition Content

This competition includes two layers, one is from the angle of detailed urban design, propose control requirements to surrounding landmasses’ architecture style, height, and volume that are coordinative with the art center; the other is conceptual architecture design plan and landscape design plan that unite the art center and Golden Mountain Park.

Main purpose of Ban Xue Gang Art Center may include:

1. Large theater no less than 1600 seats, for large performance like ballet, opera and symphony, etc.;

2. Medium theater that can fit 550 people, suitable for local drama and chamber music;

3. Small theater that can fit 250 people, can be used for drama, crosstalk, Pingshu, and small-scale singing and dancing performance;

4. Media hall no smaller than 400 square meters, can fit 100-150 people, can be used for performance conference, preview screening, VIP member activities, and sponsor cocktail party;

5. Multi-purpose culture and creativity center, may include small-scale museum, science and technology museum, new technology experience hall, etc.;

6. Use fluid public space inside the art center, like the entrance hall, as exhibition space for art pieces.

7. Other kinds of assistive functional space.

d. Sign up Requirements

In this competition, individual institution signing up as a design team should have landscape architecture class A qualification; to design team of multiple institutions, at least one of them should have landscape architecture class A qualification.

Design institution that have intention to sign up should submit sign-up file before the deadline provided in the formal announcement. Sign up file contains business documents and conceptual proposal.

1. Business documents:

1) Credential documents, including company introduction, industrial & commercial registration documents, and qualification certificate, etc.;

2) Documents of past design projects of the same kind, including project introduction, completion status, photos of the project, and award certificate, etc.;

3) Materials of prospective team members, including a list of team members, resume, and proofing materials of chief designer leading other projects of the same kind, etc.

2. Conceptual Proposal

Conceptual proposal should state understanding of this project, analysis of characteristics and resources of this area, design ideas of architectural conceptual plan of Ban Xue Gang Art Center and surrounding landmass (depth of design is not limited).

The proposal should be within 15 pages, paper size A3. It should clearly state design concept in principle, and let judges accurately get the core of design intention.

III. Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Improve Greenery and Landscape Design of Urban Streets and Nodes International Competition

a. Project Background

Focus on the problems of low quality current streetscape of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, and low recognizability of nodes at the entrance. This competition select 4 main municipal roads and 10 nodes as design objects, in the hope of progressively improve the whole area through quality improvement of the four main municipal roads and landscape of the nodes.

b. Competition Goal

Build municipal roads and nodes rich in regional characteristics. Invite excellent designers to participate in making this conceptual plan. Use high standard and starting point to build streets with distinguished landscape and nodes for Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, through collecting creative, worldly vision design plan.

c. Competition Content

This competition project includes four roads and 10 nodes:

1). Ban Xue Gang Boulevard (the section south of Bulong Road is the key point of implement in recent stage)—after Banyin Passageway open to traffic, Ban Xue Gang Boulevard is an important transportation route to enter Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone from Shenzhen Special Area, and the location of important nodes of multiple stations along metro line 10.

2). Along Wuhe Boulevard—Wuhe Boulevard connects Nanping Expressway and Meiguan Highway, is an major transportation route to enter Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone.

3). Along Banli Boulevard—connects Longhua District and Buji Sub-district.

4). Along Beier Road and Jihua Road—is the main community road of Ban Xue Gang.

5). Ten nodes—landscape design of each municipal road and intersection of surrounding municipal administrative area.

Need to target at roads and nodes described above to design streets and nodes greenery, through greenery design to create streetscape and nodes landscape rich in local characteristics through

d. Sign up Requirements

In this competition, individual institution signing up as a design team should have landscape architecture class A qualification; to design team of multiple institutions, at least one of them should have landscape architecture class A qualification.

Design institution that have intention to sign up should submit sign-up file before the deadline provided in the formal announcement. Sign up file contains business documents and conceptual proposal.

1. Business documents:

1) Credential documents, including company introduction, industrial & commercial registration documents, and qualification certificate, etc.;

2) Documents of past design projects of the same kind, including project introduction, completion status, photos of the project, and award certificate, etc.;

3) Materials of prospective team members, including a list of team members, resume, and proofing materials of chief designer leading other projects of the same kind, etc.

2. Conceptual Proposal

Conceptual proposal should state understanding of this project, analysis of characteristics and resources of this area, ideas of street greenery and landscape design and nodes landscape design (depth of design is not limited).

The proposal should be within 15 pages, paper size A3. It should clearly state design concept in principle, and let judges accurately get the core of design intention.

IV. Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Urban VI and Application Design International Competition

a. Project Background

Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone has a characteristic basis of specific industry (high-tech companies represented by Huawei) and urban culture, but these resources lack refinement, improvement, and expression. The High-Tech Zone is in urgent need of a systematic urban visual identification system using visual elements to express urban characteristics Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone.

b. Competition Goal

Through this international competition, intended to collect a unique visual identification system plan unique to Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone (brief VI), and through the use of VI system in urban public space, public facilities and public activities, broadcast cultural characteristics of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, make the urban image of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone popular, and further improve regional culture brand effect. Is one of the important measures of making the culture of Bantian sub-district standing out, and thus drive regional development.

c. Competition Content

This competition project includes three layers: 1. Combine current resources characteristics and develop trend of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone, design VI system in coherence to local culture; 2. Use VI design core elements on streets, signage, outdoor advertisements, facades along the streets, sculptures, street performance, greenery, slow speed facility, festivals, etc., to create uniform urban visual system of Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone; 3. Provide a series of

feasible maintenance management advices for plans above.

d. Sign up Requirements

In this competition, individual design institution signing up should have rich experience in the whole VI system design and promotion, and in successive application design.

Design institution that has intention to sign up should submit sign-up file before the deadline provided in the formal announcement. Sign up file contains business documents and conceptual proposal.

1. Business documents:

1) Credential documents, including company introduction, industrial & commercial registration documents, and qualification certificate, etc.;

2) Documents of past design projects of the same kind, including project introduction, completion status, photos of the project, and award certificate, etc.;

3) Materials of prospective team members, including a list of team members, resume, and proofing materials of chief designer leading other projects of the same kind, etc.

2. Conceptual Proposal

Conceptual proposal should state understanding of this project, analysis of characteristics and resources of this area, and propose a rough idea of VI design (depth of design is not limited).

The proposal should be within 15 pages, paper size A3. It should clearly state design concept in principle, and let judges accurately get the core of design intention.

Competition pre-sign up method

Design institutions that have intention to sign up can fill out the pre-sign up information form from now (see appendix) and send it to competition committee email (btjhfzb@longgang.gov.cn) to pre-sign up, so that we can inform project progress in time.

Pre-sign up consultation: Ms. Li +86 075586549494；13632658134

This competition plans to release formal competition announcement in the second half of September 2017. Regarding specific contents, formal competition announcement to be released shall prevail.

Appendix：

Appendix 1:Shenzhen Longgang District Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Core Area Urban Quality Improvement Serial Plan International Competition Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Surrounding Suburban Parks Holistic Conceptual Design Plan International Competition Pre-sign up Information Form

Appendix 2:Shenzhen Longgang District Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Core Area Urban Quality Improvement Serial Plan International Competition Ban Xue Gang Art Center and Surrounding Block Architecture Conceptual Design Plan International Competition Pre-sign up Information Form

Appendix 3:Shenzhen Longgang District Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Core Area Urban Quality Improvement Serial Plan International Competition Ban Xue Gang Improve Greenery and Landscape Design of Urban Streets and Nodes International Competition Pre-sign up Information Form

Appendix 4:Shenzhen Longgang District Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Core Area Urban Quality Improvement Serial Plan International Competition Ban Xue Gang High-Tech Zone Urban VI and Application Design International Competition Pre-sign up Information Form