Prologue：

In the context of decades,
Moganshan is a land with great B&B hotels.
In the context of hundred years,
Moganshan is a cultural consumption enclave of Shanghai.
In the context of thousand years,
Moganshan is a natural mountain body of the Taihu Lake basin in Jiangnan.
In the context of the future,
Moganshan is a trendy and vigorous land with a cultural revival.

Theme Background：

The Shanghai Style culture is revealed both in Moganshan and Shanghai. Fans of such an international, diversified, and fashionable lifestyle come in flocks. One hundred years ago, Moganshan attracted foreigners from Shanghai to build houses and auxiliary facilities. One hundred years later, “to construct a building in Moganshan” is a dream and a practice of pioneering architects. Moganshan is a symbol that interprets the evolution and change of the times. Fuxi Water Street is the specialty practice area of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and starts Moganshan’s regional development for the next two decades. Moreover, in the future, as more and more elites at the top of different fields join in by “adding groups” to co-create and guide, Moganshan will become a trendy and vigorous land with cultural revival, presenting the correct method of opening Moganshan.

Project Introduction：

The Fuxi River Seven Bridges Conceptual Design International Competition is one of the important starting projects of Moganshan Fuxi Water Street Commercial Complex. This competition, co-organized by Deqing County Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd. and Young Bird Plan, aims to call for the participation of talented designers, passionate amateurs, and design firms domestically and worldwide. Additionally, the forward-looking, innovative and diverse conceptual designs will be collected from architecture, landscape, bridge, and art fields. Creating seven footbridges for Fuxi Water Steet starts the correct method of opening Moganshan and publicizes Shanghai Style image as an international town, vigorous and diversified. The landscape nodes are integrated with pedestrian-friendly and inclusive spaces, seeing lush mountains and lucid waters. And distributed work and fashionable lifestyles coexist as well, making it a human habitat.

Jury Panel：

Shikyo Fu: General Planner of Vanke General Consultant of Moganshan Regional Development
Yichun Liu: Co-founder and Principal Architect of Atelier Deshaus; Guest Professor of College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University; RIBA Chartered Member; Editorial board of the journal The Architect and Architectural Journal
Zhun Zhang: TJAD senior engineer; AND Office co-founder
Yifeng Lin: Founder | YIYU design; RLA | USA; MLA | GSD Harvard University; Honorary Assistance Pro | HKU
Weijie Wang: ConCom STUDIO Partner, Principal architect; Design Instructor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Wanli Mo: Assistant professor, Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Emerging curator, Editor, Architecture China
Ying Wei: Founder of Shanghai Dakai Company
Guoliang Yang: Deqing Cultural Tourism Group General Manager
Isa Ye: Founder of YoungBird; Founder of designers

Design Requirements：

To design seven footbridges above Fuxi River (Moganshan Town Section), enhance the slow traffic system of waterfront spaces of Fuxi River, improve the quality of daily travel and public spaces, integrate modernity and adapt to changes in the future, create landscape nodes with pedestrian, sightseeing, travel, view appreciation, and connection functions, seeing lush mountains and lucid waters, and to present the Shanghai Style culture and international fashionable lifestyle of Moganshan Town. Moreover, the architectural style should reveal the local characteristics and the feature of the times. Design should comply with relative design rules in China. It should pay attention to the combination of architecture and structural functions, and consider the reasonability of the construction budget as well as the landing result and the sustainability in the future.
Participants could select one or more of the seven-footbridges for their design in this competition.

Design Goals：

1. Correct method of opening Moganshan:
The goal of this competition is to design seven footbridges for Fuxi Water Street, enhancing the slow traffic system of waterfront spaces of Fuxi River (Moganshan Town Section); meanwhile, to present Moganshan Town’s Shanghai Style image – international, vigorous, and diversified; and distributed work and fashionable lifestyle coexist in this human habitat.
2. Aim to create slow-traffic landscape nodes:
The competition aims to improve daily travel and the quality of public spaces, integrate modernity and adapt to changes in the future, connect waterfront spaces of Fuxi Water Street within the town area, and create landscape nodes for Fuxi Water Street with pedestrian, sightseeing, travel, view appreciation, and connection functions, seeing lush mountains and lucid waters.
3. Comply with the overall planning of Fuxi Water Street:
Based on the site condition, participants shall fully consider the overall planning of the Fuxi Water Street Commercial Complex, and submit conceptual designs that comply with the planning. (For detailed materials, please see “Site overview” in the Competition Documents.)
4. Technical and landing requirements:
After meeting all requirements stated above, reasonably use advanced technologies and materials. The landing result should be ensured.

Competition Documents：

1. Site aerial shooting
2. Existing condition of the site
3. Site topography CAD & SU
4. Site Overview
5. Regional background
6. Images of work submission reference
7. Mogan Mountain publicity videos
8. Seven Bridges Site Locations, Current Conditions & Surrounding Construction Renderings

Eligibility：

1. This competition is open to all design agencies with related design practices domestically and worldwide (qualification of independent legal persons or organizations with the ability to bear civil liability independently). Registration by a consortium is accepted due to the win-win result and the mutual strengths complementing. The member quantity of the consortium shall not exceed 2. Each party of the consortium shall not participate in this competition in its name, nor does it form another consortium with another design agency.
2. The competition is free of charge and open to all professionals, students, and amateurs with a background in design and art, including but not limited to design professionals and design enthusiasts in fields of architecture, landscape, bridge, structure, interiors, art, product, etc.
3. Participants may participate as individuals or in groups. There is no limitation on the number of people for each group.
4. Each participant has to register on our website, and is invited by the group leader to complete its group-joining action; for any questions, please visit our website.
5. The organizer of the competition reserves the right to require the Top 15 to alter the bridge location number, and based on the former conceptual design as the prototype, adjust the design according to the renewed bridge site. This article is an essential prerequisite for competing for the Top 7 as well as for the landing of the work in the competition.

Timeline：

2022.12.06 Call for entries
2023.03.15 Registration deadline
2023.03.15 Submission deadline
2023.03.22 Release of shortlisted winners
2023.04.03 Release of Top 30 & public voting
2023.04.10-13 Judges online Q&A
2023.04.15 Release of Top 15
2023.05.15 Release of Top 7 & the Jury Panel Special Award
The timeline is for reference only, the specific time is subject to designers official website.

Awards：

Top 7 (7 winners): A prize of RMB 80,000 (pre-tax) + Certificate of Honour
The top 7 entry works will be used as the scheme for reference in the landing of seven bridges crossing the Fuxi River, Moganshan Town. Additionally,he Organizer, Deqing County Cultural Tourism Development Group Co., Ltd., plans to construct and complete the seven bridges in 2023.

Jury Panel Special Award (1 winner): A prize of RMB 20,000 (pre-tax) + Certificate of Honour
Additionally, the Jury Panel Special Award aims to encourage future excellent designers with great potential and emphasize design as a presence of comprehensive ability. The Jury Panel will evaluate the Top 7 entry works in terms of six dimensions – site interpretation, innovative design, style expression, reasonable structure, components materials, and inexpensive maintenance, and after discussion, select the most outstanding team/individual with comprehensive ability, presenting the Jury Panel Special Award.

Top 15 (8 winners): Certificate of Top 15 Honour
Top 30 (15 winners): Certificate of Top 30 Honour
Shortlist: Honourable Shortlist Certificate

Young Bird Plan

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