“Transformation of Yat Yuen Canidrome – Lotus Sports and Cultural Complex”, the design of by CityU team formed by undergraduate students of the Faculty of Innovation and Design won the excellence award at both the 2020-Golden Lotus International Design Competition for Students and the 18th Asian Design Award.
The design winning two awards focused on Macao’s urban development and centered around the “transformation of Yat Yuen Canidrome” from the perspective of architectural design and landscape planning, finally coming up with the idea of “Lotus Sports and Cultural Complex”. Under the guidance of Assistant Professors Xing Yalong and Li Mengshun, the design proposal of the “Yiyuan Original Site Reconstruction-Lianhui Sports Cultural Complex” by five students, namely Xie Jiahao, Cai Shanling, She Yu, Zhu Yingxin and Huang Jing, won the excellence award at the 2020-Golden Lotus International Design Competition for Students in the “Architecture (including landscape)” category and the excellence award at the 18th Design of the Craft Value in the category of “Urban Complex and City”.
In the context of the Macao government's vigorous promotion of the cultural and creative industry, the 2020-Golden Lotus International Design Competition for Students organized by the Union for International Design of Macao is one of the most influential design competition for college students in the Asia-Pacific region. The competition has attracted the attention of design colleges and industries in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as Portuguese-speaking countries, providing an international academic exchange platform for college students. With more than ten years of experience, the Asian Design Year Award is committed to creating a more diversified, larger, more in-depth and more influential professional and authoritative design exchange event for universities in Asian countries and regions. Based on the framework and foundation of architecture, landscape, interior, display, light environment and urban design, the event connects the international and domestic design circles, design universities and associations to promote the exchange of the academic sector and industry.
The Faculty of Innovation and Design of CityU places emphasis on both teaching and research and adopts the development approach of integration of industries, universities and research institutes. It encourages teachers and students to think more, practice more and communicate more and also encourages them to show others their works by participating in different competitions held on different platforms to competitive and have exchange with other universities and companies, implement the innovative idea of going out and brining in. There are two other teams of students winning the excellence award at 2020-Golden Lotus International Design Competition for Students. They are Fan Jiayue and Liu Jiacheng, who won the award in the “Architecture (including Landscape) category under the guidance of teacher Dong Hongyun, and Liang Xinyin, who won the award in the “Soft Decoration (including Product Design)” category under the guidance of Assistant Professor Ren Yujie. Students who won this award have demonstrated the good qualities and attitude of the CityU, including being adept at thinking, skillful at practicing and proactive in action. We hope they will continue to improving themselves and strive for greater achievements in their future studies and at work.
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Source: Faculty of Innovation and Design
