We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Jian'an Zhou about their original and creative Residential Landscape design work. Jian'an Zhou is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original residential landscape works.
Jian'an Zhou ("JZ") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Nine Court Mansion Residential Landscape. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
JZ : The inspiration getting from the spatial structure of China Palace, create axis layout and relationship of three-pattern. The traditional homing etiquettes and traditional China element are expressed contemporarily.
JZ : This project is intended to improve the life quality of residents at the same, use the modern design to introduce and express elements of China traditional culture, in order to improve people’s recognition and degree of attention on China traditional culture.
JZ : We would invite new colleagues to see the project regularly and give careful analyses of the pros and cons of the project.
JZ : It is around 10 days.
JZ : I decided to pursuit this inspiration due to China needs to regain attention to its own culture at this stage.
JZ : Another company produces it.
JZ : The enthusiasm to Oriental culture and Chinese traditional landscape design.
JZ : They are my colleagues who worked with me in the same company.
JZ : Sunac real estate, Chongqing/China.
JZ : The design difficulties this time lie in both meeting peoples' aesthetic needs and usage needs in life referring to how to express the traditional culture. By reference to the spatial layout method from the Imperial Palace, we constructed nine spaces and grouped them into three steps of the home-returning ceremony.
JZ : The name of the project, the Nine-Court Mansion, originated from the practice in China that there are nine rooms at most in a house no matter how large it is.
JZ : AutoCAD, SketchUp & Lumion
JZ : This project is intended to improve the life quality of residents at the same, use the modern design to introduce and express elements of China traditional culture, in order to improve people’s recognition and degree of attention on China traditional culture.
JZ : We have technical group in our company who collaborate with this project.
JZ : Chinese style and artistic conception are brought into the design, use the ways to carving instead of printing to grasp Chinese "Charm”, change complexity to the simple, adjust in material and simplify in shape elements like Chinese traditional pitched roof and dragon scales, meanwhile shall focus on the design essentials in function.
JZ : In order to more fully get knowledge of background of project, we conduct a questionnaire survey on potential customer group and local residents, get some missions and site memory of this project , and then guide the latter design. Combining the current status of site, we make a deep research on the spatial structure of Chinese traditional residence and look up lots of books. Finally we get inspiration from the spatial structure of China's Forbidden City, create the axis layout, and create relationship of three-pattern, Make contemporary expression on traditional homing etiquette.
JZ : Change complexity to the simple, adjust in material and simplify in shape elements like Chinese traditional pitched roof and dragon scales, meanwhile shall focus on the design essentials in function.
JZ : We realize this is a high quality project and we hope more people could be interested in Modern Chinese landscape after they visit this project.
JZ : This project furthers my understanding of classic Chinese landscape and through communication with our clients, colleagues and locals, my understanding of design improves a lot.
JZ : I hope everyone present could pay more attention to oriental landscape design and provide us with your suggestions. We will keep committing to do our next project better.
