Text description provided by the architects
The original intention of the Weimar Design Competition was to focus on the growth of young designers, and creating a platform to allow designers have a comprehensive stage to show themselves with more potential, tension and vitality. We hope designers can do different works to show their characteristics in a relax way, and present voices and insights of designers. The competition topic was inspired from the Weimar’s project——Shanghai Lingang Second Ring City Park. We chose the landmark part named as Mountain River Rift Valley, which is a prominent expression of the design conceptual system. The mountain-shaped building is integrated into the entire landscape and the surrounding environment perfectly with no aggression. Meanwhile, the site serves commercial and leisure function for public. The central square formed by surrounding building layout delivers the diverse functional needs of commercial trade, public gathering and cultural recreation. Participants can continue to sublime or completely overturn the original concept. The competition provides participants full freedom to design the project. The competition rules require that only junior designers can participate in this competition. The senior designer and design director only can participate as supervisor. 1.