1st International Green Dot Competition kicks off in Harbin

The contestants of 1st International Green Dot Competition take a field survey.

A Q&A session to introduce sufficient information to the contestants of 1st International Green Dot Competition

The First International Green Dot Competition, a spatial planning and design contest co-sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, kicked off in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on March 30 and 31, 2019.

 

Jointly organized by the Urban Planning Society of China, the Heilongjiang Association for Science and Technology, the Heilongjiang Department of Natural Resources and the Harbin Municipal Government, the event has attracted 416 teachers and students from 16 Chinese and foreign universities, namely Tsinghua University; Tongji University; Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology; Harbin Institute of Technology; Chongqing University; Shenzhen University; Southeast University; Tianjin University; Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Texas at Austin; Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Strasbourg School of Architecture; Polytechnic University of Turin; Polytechnic University of Milan.

 

As one of the highlights of the 21st annual meeting of CAST, the competition is intended to promote green development and international green cooperation.

 

Organizers expect to find new ways for relocating and transforming old urban industrial enterprises while improving urban functions, industrial structure, urban environment and heritage protection in the process.

 

Specifically, contestants were asked to produce a planning and design solution for the transformation of a factory area in the Harbin old industrial base.

 

To give contestants sufficient information, organizers took them on a field survey and held a Q&A session to introduce Harbin's overall urban plan and the involved factory area and answer questions from contestants.

 

A jury of renowned planning and architectural design experts will select winning works in early June. The award ceremony, together with an exhibition of the winning works, will be held at the annual meeting of CAST scheduled for late June 2019.