Rural Historical Recovery Forum & Guming Village Contest Award Ceremony Successfully Held
Nov. 27th afternoon, Rural Historical Recovery International Forum & Guming Village Contest Award Ceremony organized by Metrostudio and sponsored by Guangxi Guming Village Tourism Investment Co., Ltd and School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University was successfully held in the International Conference Hall, Normal College, Shenzhen University. Around 360 people including famous designers , experts, scholars from Italy, Austria, China and related people from the landscape and architecture field had attended the international academic forum.
△ Mr. Qin Li, professor of School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University
Mr. Qin Li was the host of the forum and introduce the forum background and guests: Mr. Antonio Inglese, Metrostudio Founder, President & Chief Designer; Mr. Eugene Zhang, Metrostudio Director & General Manager; Mr. Lyon Tan, Metrostudio Director, Design Director; Mr. Wei Zhuang, General Manager of Guangxi Guming Village Tourism Investment Co., Ltd; Mr. Zhong Dekun, Dean of School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University & Doctor of University of Nottingham; Mr. Wu Jiahua, Professor of School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University & Doctor of University of Sheffield; Ms. Maria Auböck, Professor of Munich Academy of Art, Germany & Partner of Auböck & Kárász Landscape Architects; and Mr. János Kárász, Partner of Auböck & Kárász Landscape Architects; Mr. Carmelo Baglivo, Founder of Baglivo Negrini Architects; Mr. Yang Guang, Vice-president of Coastal Group; Mr. Xu Qibing, President of Yatouhang.
△ Antonio Inglese
Next, Mr. Antonio Inglese, Wei Zhuang and Zhong Dekun respectively gave the short speech, giving the best wishes and highly appreciate and hoping through the competition platform, we can take more people's attention on the protection of traditional culture.
△ Mr. Wei Zhuang
△ Mr. Zhong Dekun
In the lecture of SIX PROJECTS , through six different projects practices including the hospital design, old factory reformation, campus lab design, theater design, campus in the war, health center design), Mr. Carmelo Baglivo discussed how to find a way in the insulation between space and individual; meanwhile he also answered how to take into deep consideration on the human settlement and social functions and form the interpretation of Genetic architecture. “ Actually, because of this kind of interpretation, the empty is over the entity and social spaces create landscape.” 
△ Carmelo Baglivo（Left）
In the lecture of DESIGNING TIME, REFLECTING TRADDION, Ms. Maria Auböc and Mr. János Kárász, through the topics of TIME: A BUILDING MATERIAL, REFLECTING TRADITION, LANDSCAPE URBANISM, TYPOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS and RURAL: LOCAL AND GLOBAL, they talked about that time as an important material of building can be used in the design; should consider the needs of different social groups and mix them in one design; to inherit the historic culture and innovate and design in the limited conditions. Their lectures won warm applause from time to time.
△ Maria Auböc, János Kárász
Award Ceremony
Guming Villege Design Competition started from July and around 588 students from 158 universities have attended this competition. And after the selection, 78 works were shortlisted in the competition. The jury members included Maria Auböck, János Kárász, Carmelo Baglivo, Wu Jiahua, Tang Hua and Antonio Inglese. Mr. János Kárász as the Chairman hosted this competition. After the selection and discussion of the six juries, 9 works and 1 video were shortlisted. The winners were also announced on the Ceremony and given the prizes and certificates.
First Prize
ID：574 IMMORTAL LIGHT
University of British Columbia
By Jie Liu/ Hewen Suo/ Yiwen Ruan/ Juchan Kim（Korea）
△ Mr. Wei Zhuang gave the 1st Prize and Certificate
Second Prize
ID：324 PASSING THROUGH TIME AND LIGHT-RAMMED EARTH DECONSTRUCTION
School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University
By YUNZHOU FAN /HENGQI LIN/YIZHE WANG/ZIQIAO LIU/CHUYANG LI/ YATING LI
ID：564 “Disappearing" village
Central Academy of Fine Arts
By XIAOYUN WANG/ QI SUN/ YUCHEN HU
Third Prize
ID：351 sound drum tower
School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University
By Lipeng Zheng/ Guokun Wu/ Jiapeng He/ Xuan Qiao/ Gen Li
ID：372 Beyond the rammed earth
South China Agricultural University
By Runqing Huang/ Qing Lan/ Canhui Zhang/ Zhidong Chen
ID：336 A TALE OF TRAVERSING THE VILLAGE
School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University
By Qiuying Li/ Tong Qin/ Xiaoqing Cai/ Qiu Zhong/ Yuhong Huang
Excellent Prize
ID：253 Cross Wall Cruise Alley
National Cheng Kung University
By Sunkai Cai/ Lei Sha
ID：585 Elevated Earth
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
By Pedro Xavier Martins Silva / Marcelo de Almeida Guedes / Francisco da Gama Gonçalves Pereira / Nuno Filipe Cardoso Silva
ID：462 Urban Infiltration
Facultad de arquitectura UdelAR
By Ken Luis Sei Fong Achar
Best Video Prize
ID：59
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
By Tianying Zhang/ Jiaying Luo/ Zhihan Guo/ Qi Chen/ Honglu
Last Mr. Dekun Zhong hosted the salon of Urban Restoration and Village Recovery and Ms. Maria Auböck, Mr. Carmelo Baglivo, János Kárász, Jiahua Wu and Antonio Inglese had attended the salon. The whole activity was successfully held.
△ Maria Auböck/János Kárász/Antonio Inglese
△ Lyon Tan/ Eugene Zhang
△ Carmelo Baglivo
△ Peng Xiaosong/Zhong Dekun
△ Qin Li
△ Mr. Gan Haixing (right）
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