This International Consultation will mainly consist of two levels:

1.Overall Urban Design: It’s the core innovation zone of Songshan Lake Science City, with the Pearl River Delta Ring Expressway to the east, Kexue Avenue to the west, Wei'e Mountain to the south, and Taoyuan Park to the north, covering a planned area of about 9.2 km².

At the overall urban design level, it is recommended that the planning, coordination and connection relationship between the Core Innovation Zone of the Science City and surrounding areas be studied on a wider scale, i.e. it is recommended that the research area be extended to cover an area of approximately 46.5 km² from Xincheng Road in the east to the Pearl River Delta Ring Expressway in the west, from Daxue Road in the north to the major scientific facilities and surrounding ecological green areas in the south.

2.Detailed Urban Design for the Key Area (including the detailed design of 2 key nodes): It’s Xiangshan Area of the Core Innovation Zone, with Deli Road to the east, Kexue Avenue to the west, Dongguan-Foshan Highway to the south, and Hu’an Road to the north, covering an area of about 3.4 km². A and B are the key nodes for detailed and in-depth design, and their specific scope can be adjusted by design teams according to the design, while the area of each scope can’t be less than 500 ha.

The work content of this International Consultation will include 3 parts, i.e. research on industrial positioning, overall urban design, and detailed urban design for the key area.

1.Research on Industrial Positioning: Conduct research and analysis on the cases of domestic and international science centers, science cities and innovation parks, put forward the industrial positioning and development direction of the Core Innovation Zone, clarify the functional format and development volume proposal.

2.Overall Urban Design (9.2km²): Carry out comprehensive and systematic design for the Core Innovation Zone in terms of development positioning, overall spatial framework, comprehensive transportation, spatial form, public space, and ecological landscape system, etc.

3.Detailed Urban Design for the Key Area (3.4 km²): It is the focus of the International Consultation. Under the systematic framework of the overall urban design, design teams should focus on the key area to refine the urban design proposal, and carry out detailed urban design and bring forward control requirements for buildings, public space, landscape environment and traffic organization, including but not limited to functional composition and scale, public space and ecological blue-green landscape, building form design and control guidelines, traffic planning and design, characteristic node design, and plot urban design guidelines, etc.

1.Open registration will be adopted worldwide. No threshold in terms of qualification certificates will be set. All local and international design teams are eligible for the registration. Design Consortia are acceptable, but registration submitted by an individual or a team of individuals is not acceptable.

2.Priority will be given to design teams with following similar project experience:

1. Experience in urban design of the same type (core area of the science city) or related areas, both nationally or internationally;
2. Practical experience in industrial planning and urban management;
3. Experience in environment creation and public space design.

3.Joint participation of outstanding design firms in various disciplines is encouraged. Partners applying in the name of a consortium shall meet the following requirements:

3.1 Each consortium should have no more than 4 members, and no member is allowed to register twice for the International Consultation itself or in the name of another consortium.

3.2 The members should sign a legally effective Consortium Agreement, which shall specify the division of work between members and way of distribution of the design fee, etc.

4.Designers involved in the International Consultation should be the current staff of the registered design firm. The chief designer must have experience of directing a number of similar planning and design projects, and must directly participate in the whole process of the International Consultation. The foreign firm’s project team should include at least one member who is proficient in the Chinese language to ensure the accurate understanding of the project background and relevant requirements of the International Consultation.

The International Consultation will consist of two stages, namely, “Prequalification” and “Design Competition”.

Prequalification: Design teams will be required to submit corresponding registration documents (including the commercial documents and the concept proposal) pursuant to the Working Rules and the Design Brief. 5 design teams and 2 alternative design teams will be selected through a prequalification meeting to participate in the subsequent design competition.

Design Competition: After the 5 shortlisted design teams have completed the design and submitted their design proposals in accordance with the requirements of the design brief, a Design Evaluation Panel, legally established by the Host, will evaluate the design proposals, and then select and recommend 2 or 3 preferred proposals to the Host. With full respect to the evaluation comments of the Design Evaluation Panel and taking into account the specific circumstances of the area and the possibilities for implementation, the Host will determine the final ranking of the recommended proposals in accordance with relevant procedures. The first prize will be 3 million yuan in RMB (1 place, excluding the design detailing and integration fee), the second prize will be 2 million yuan in RMB (1 place), and the design compensation for each shortlisted design team will be 1 million yuan in RMB (3 places).

Information Disclosure & Pre-registration

The International Consultation will be officially announced soon. Please keep tune to the subsequent information disclosure.

Design teams may click this link (https://jinshuju.net/f/GvnkAq) or scan the following QR Code to fill in their information for pre-registration:

* Related information is subject to the official announcement. The final right to interpret the working rules of this International Consultation resides in the Host and Organizer.