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Architecture Competition: International Competition for Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Jiangxi Xinfeng High-Speed Rail New Town
I Project Background
International Competition for Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Jiangxi Xinfeng High-Speed Rail New Town is now open for application.
Xinfeng is the largest county with the most population in the area adjacent to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (hereinafter the Greater Bay Area) in Jiangxi Province. It is known as the merging area among the three provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian. Now it acts as the frontier communicating with the Greater Bay Area, an important junction node of Jiangxi and Guangdong the Grande Canale (planned), occupying an important strategic position.
The opening of Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway in 2021 brings an enormous historical opportunity for Xinfeng County. Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway is an artery that connects the North and the South. The opening of Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway is of great significance to promote a deeper integration of the Greater Bay Area, extend the radiation-driven function of Pearl River Delta region, and implement the national strategy of “The Rise of Central China”.
In order to fully integrate into the Greater Bay Area and play the role of an integration forerunner, Xinfeng should integrate into the south and communicate with the north. It should also make good use of the enormous historical opportunity of the opening of the Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway. The future development of Xinfeng should rely on the green hills and clear rivers including Gushan Mountain and Taojiang River. Advantages of Xinfeng should be fully taken, including its proximity to the Greater Bay Area, its large population and territory, strong developing energy and good industrial base. Xinfeng County aims to deeply integrate into the business environment and modern industrial system of the Greater Bay Area. It will become a bridgehead city of the integration. Xinfeng County shall also connect with the main urban area of Ganzhou and finally achieve overall development. It strives to depict a new page of Xinfeng as “the hometown of oranges in the world, the source of Beijiang River, an example of merging into the Greater Bay Area, a city with ethical citizens and abundant resources”. The goal is to make full use of the policies for the revitalization of Central Revolutionary Base Area, and become one of the cities with the best business environment merging into the Greater Bay Area in the central and western regions of China.
In this context, hosted by Xinfeng County Natural Resources Bureau, co-organized by Shenzhen Position Spatial Culture Development Co., Ltd., International Competition for Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Jiangxi Xinfeng High-Speed Rail New Town is now open for application.
II Competition Objectives
1.Take the demonstration area of industry-city integration in the Greater Bay Area as a development goal, and create a new engine to integrate into the Greater Bay Area as well as an innovative highland: The planning should consider the superior ecological environment of Gushan Mountain and Taojiang River. High-Speed Rail New Town needs to improve the industrial structure, public services and commercial facilities. It also plans to develop modern business, headquarters economy, talent cultivation, creative entrepreneurship and ecological tourism. In concert with the planning of the Greater Bay Area, High-Speed Rail New Town will construct a high-tech innovation zone and an area gathering high-end elements. Furthermore, it will also build a waterfront ecological zone with “one river and two banks”, and a leisure and recreation zone in Gushan Mountain. It will finally become a preferred place for industrial transfer from the Greater Bay Area.
2.Construct a landscape belt with the characteristic of “one river and two banks” as well as a beautiful and ecological city with mountains and rivers: Promote the comprehensive development of tourism and explore the landscape and cultural resources on both sides of Taojiang River. Taking Taojiang River as the central axis, designers need to create a landscape belt with the characteristic of “a river and two banks” and finally form a tourism axis. The goal is to plan a modern ecological High-Speed Rail New Town and to create a high-quality urban environment close to the nature in order to introduce industries and talents.
3.Improve the future integration of industry and city, and construct High-Speed Rail New Town as a new model of transit-oriented city: The planning needs to consider the connection with the current urban space, industry as well as the long-term development space. High-Speed Rail New Town shall be planned by means of regional integration, river-city integration and transit-oriented development.
III Project Overview
Xinfeng is known as “the Hometown of Navel Oranges in China”. It has a beautiful natural environment and the superior ecological structure of “three mountains and two rivers surrounding the city”. The 8-km-long ecological shoreline along Taojiang River is an important ecological showcase area of the city. High-Speed Rail New Town is located in the south of Xinfeng County, which will be an important area for the future development of the main urban area of Xinfeng.
Conceptual Planning Scope: The total area is about 2064.08 hectares. The area is enclosed by Nation Highway 105 (East) in the east, Daqing-Guangzhou Expressway in the west, Nation Highway 105 (South) in the south and Gushan Mountain Area in the north.
Urban Design Scope: The total area is about 1095.86 hectares (including 117.55-hectare water body area of Taojiang River). Urban Design Scope includes the ecological shoreline of about 8 km on both sides of Taojiang River, the reservoir area within Gushan Mountain Area, the area north of Taojiang River enclosed by Ganzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway, Xinxiong Avenue, Yingbin Avenue and Yanjiang Avenue, the area within about 0.5 km from the south bank of Taojiang River. Design teams need to specify a core area of 1-2 square kilometers as a key urban space to be designed.
The site can be divided into 4 areas: Taojiang River and its ecological shoreline on both sides, North Area of Taojiang River, South Area of Taojiang River and Gushan Mountain Area. The spatial structure and infrastructure within the site need to be improved. The ecological wetland on the north bank of Taojiang River has been completed. A number of important landmarks, transportation buildings and cultural buildings have also been put into use in North Area of Taojiang River. But it still remains a large area in need of planning and construction. South Area of Taojiang River is a long-term development area and currently remains undeveloped. It is dominated by a large area of farmland, private houses and national public welfare forests at this time.
Visit the link below, to see the panorama of High-Speed Rail New Town (Taken at an altitude of about 250 meters above Xinfeng Bridge):
https://720yun.com/t/44vkbqr7r…
IV Competition Rules
The competition adopts the method of open solicitation, divided into three phases: Open Application Phase, Design Competition Phase and Final Presentation Phase. (During Schematic Design Phase, the co-organizer will organize a mid-term presentation, in the form of online presentation. The shortlisted teams need to submit their design proposals and make a mid-term presentation to the host.)
Open Application Phase
Each applicant should submit only 1 concept proposal. Pre-qualification Review Committee shall review application materials submitted by the participating teams including the concept proposal, experience of the chief designer and the team (Open Review), and comprehensively determine 6 shortlisted proposals without ranking to enter the next phase by voting. 2 alternative proposals with ranking will also be determined.
Design Competition Phase
The shortlisted teams submit complete conceptual design according to relevant requirements. Only 1 design for each team (consortium) shall be submitted. Scheme Review Committee shall evaluate the design schemes (Open Review), and fully listen to opinions of the host, then determine 3 ranked winning proposals and 3 unranked Excellence Awards by voting. (Before the scheme review meeting, a mid-term presentation will be organized in the form of online presentations, in which the shortlisted teams will submit their design proposals and make a mid-term presentation to the host.)
Final Presentation Phase
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd teams will enter Final Presentation Phase. The host shall choose one of the teams to be responsible for follow-up work to optimize the planning and design scheme.
The competition results will be announced on project homepage and other platforms after confirmation by the host, for 3 working days.
V Application Requirements
1. Applicants must be domestic or overseas legally registered companies or organizations. Two or more legal persons, parent companies, wholly-owned subsidiaries and their holding companies with the same legal representative shall be regarded as the same applicant and shall not apply for the competition at the same time.
2. There is no qualification requirement. Design teams composed of professionals in urban planning and design, landscape design, architectural design, positioning strategy are encouraged.
3. Consortium is accepted, with no more than 3 members (1 leading member + 2 members). Consortium members shall sign the Consortium Agreement legally and specify the leading member and work distribution. Each member in the consortium shall not apply for the competition alone or participate in another consortium in other names with other enterprises or institutions.
4. Foreign enterprises or institutions that do not have branches or staff in China must form a consortium with domestic design institutions to participate in the international competition.
5. Individual or team of individuals are not accepted.
6. Designers participating in this international competition should be the registered staff of the application company. The chief designer should be a designer who has led several projects of the same type and must be truly responsible for the project. The chief designer should participate in the whole process of this international competition including but not limited to the site visit, Q&A sessions and scheme reporting (including video conference). If it is found that the chief designer does not match with the person submitted in the application materials during the international competition, the host has the right to cancel the qualification. In order to ensure that the designers have an accurate understanding of the background and relevant requirements of this international competition, at least one of the main designers should be a native Chinese speaker.
VI Bonus and Follow-up Work
For each shortlisted applicant, if the deliverables are determined by the Scheme Review Committee as meeting the design requirements of the competition, according to the ranking results determined by the Scheme Review Committee, the corresponding bonuses will be paid as follows:
1 First Prize, award of RMB 3,600,000 (tax inclusive), including 300,000 for the service fee which shall be paid by the winner to the co-organizer (tax inclusive)
1 Second Prize, award of RMB 2,300,000 (tax inclusive)
1 Third Prize, award of RMB 1,800,000 (tax inclusive)3 Excellence Awards, each award of RMB 1,300,000 (tax inclusive) .
Content and Design Fee of Follow-up Work
The winner will serve as the technical consultant for the “International Competition for Conceptual Planning and Urban Design of Jiangxi Xinfeng High-Speed Rail New Town”, and will be responsible for further development and integration of conceptual planning and urban design of the High-Speed Rail New Town.
The winner is required to fully absorb the advantages of other awarded designs, develop and adjust the design according to experts’ evaluation opinions and relevant management departments’ opinions, then form formal reports and planning guidance documents, and submit them to the host for acceptance.
The winner is required to fully absorb the advantages of other awarded designs, develop and adjust the design according to experts’ evaluation opinions and relevant management departments’ opinions, then form formal reports and planning guidance documents, and submit them to the host for acceptance.
At the same time, the winner is responsible for any scheme revision arising from the review, assist in adjustment of the regulatory plan and provide related supporting services.
The fee for follow-up integration and optimization work is RMB 2,000,000 (tax inclusive).
VII Application Procedure
Applicants must submit email application and paper application before the deadline. Those who fail to submit email application or paper application will be regarded as invalid application.
Applicants must submit email application and paper application before the deadline. Those who fail to submit email application or paper application will be regarded as invalid application.
Email Application
Applicants should send the scanned Application Letter (PDF) to the email address before 17:00, June 16, 2022 (UTC+8). Email: competition@archiposition.com
Paper Document Application
The applicant must ensure that the package arrives at the designated place before the deadline. Paper documents can be submitted on site or by mail. Deadline: before 17:00, June 23, 2022 (UTC+8). Late arrival materials will not be accepted.
Content of Pre-qualification Application
Design teams shall submit application materials according to the requirements of the Work Rules and the Design Brief, which include company profile, credit files and concept proposal. Both paper documents and electronic documents are required. If the application documents do not meet the requirements, they will not be reviewed. Please refer to Work Rules for details.
Only 1 concept proposal for each applicant (consortium) shall be submitted.
1. The design works of pre-qualification phase should be able to fully and clearly express the planning and design ideas, refine the highlights and formulate the overall objectives. Design works content include:(1) Proposal name; (2) Proposal of overall planning function; (3) Analyze and interpret site features; (4) Overall planning and functional layout; (5) Overall conceptual rendering; (6) Other content that the design team believes expresses the characteristics of the proposal;(7) Reference case and its analysis related to this project; (8) The contents that can be learned from the design team’s past projects.
2. The presentation boards must contain the overall planning, functional layout and overall conceptual rendering. The rest of the content refers to the booklet.
VIII Schedule
The shortlisted teams should participate in site visit. Any personnel coming to Xinfeng County should meet epidemic prevention requirements in Xinfeng and make preparations in advance. The schedule might be adjusted according to the epidemic situations and subject to the follow-up notice.
Ⅸ Document Acquisition
Please visit the project homepage to obtain relevant documents of this competition, including Work Rules, Design Brief and related attachments. The follow-up Q&A of the competition will be updated on the project homepage. It is recommended to bookmark the website and check it in time.
Project Homepage:
http://xinfengnewtown.archipos…
Downloading Link:
https://www.jianguoyun.com/p/D…
All information shall be subject to the complete documents including Work Rules, Design Brief and attachments.
Ⅹ Organizations
Host :
Xinfeng County Natural Resources Bureau
Co-organizer:
Shenzhen Position Spatial Culture Development Co., Ltd.
Enquiry Email :
competition@archiposition.com
Phone/WeChat :
Ms. Zeng +86-18718560045
Ms. Chen +86-19129915597
*Consultation Hours: Weekdays 9:00－18:30
Project Homepage :
http://xinfengnewtown.archipos…
The project homepage will provide documents for download and updated information of the competition such as Q&A and addendum.
