SECOND PRIZE WINNER!
Xiaonan Li & Tianyu Zhao
Hungary
The team consists of two architects, we are currently working in two different cities:
ZHAO Tianyu is an accomplished architect and a DLA (doctor in liberal art) degree holder in Architecture. She is now a lecturer in Hubei University of Technology in China, teaching environmental design and architectural design. She had a 9-year professional and systematic architectural education background in the University of Pécs, Hungary. The major scopes of her research are public space planning, neighbourhood design, resilient urban spaces and corresponding architectural and infrastructure design.
Dr. ZHAO joins Hungary based carbon-neutral brownfield rehabilitation project, in which plays a leading role in public space design and master planning. She is also an accomplished writer and has published several articles in international academic journals and conferences on her major scopes. Her research and design concept stands with the well being of inhabitants, and looks at the the future resilience of urban life.
LI Xiaonan is a Junior Consultant and assists ABUD in the company’s research endeavors. She studied architecture in BME 7 years ago and she is doing PhD study on urban regeneration at Marcell Breuer Doctoral School. Xiaonan’s creativity is visible in all her work and her diverse interests led her to become a teaching tutor at her alma mater.
Interview with the Winner
What is your design philosophy?
Zhao:
Public space planning, habitat and community living are my major concerns, which also drive me to proceed resilient and people-oriented way of thinking. With the help of design, as a tool, I try to lead people’s behaviour, how they utilize the design and therefore mindset, imperceptibly. I believe that design belongs to the loop of creating and utilizing.
Can you briefly explain your understanding of the topic and the source of ideas?
Zhao:
According to my perceived knowledge about India-based-sustainability, it will have to deal with the sustainable co-existence between urban space users, which on one hand means the human inhabitants, on the other hand, the nature, the street animals and the eco-system lives on them. So the theory of stationary micro infrastructure promoting urban co-existence, yet with integrated functions, came into being.
Li:
L: The best design with minimal changes.We hope to develop a design model in the context of India's highly distinctive human environment and urban street ecology that will facilitate the analysis of design ideas and elements within the three concepts of micro-infrastructure, urban intervention and ecological sustainability, and that can be applied to other cities and regions around the world.
When and how you were first introduced to architecture?
Li:
I was observing the graduation defence at the Central Academy of Fine Arts when the defending student's topic was the urban renewal of Huizhou-style architecture, and her design proposals and reflections on the local humanities aroused my interest in architecture.
What does architecture mean to you?
Zhao:
Architecture is such a broad field of science, and meantime an assembled tool to solve all kinds of problems for people and for beyond people. The more I try to use it and perceive it, the greater power it proves itself to me.
Li:
Architecture is a combination of beauty and function, a work of art created through a process of constant refinement in the design of buildings.
Checkout our Latest Competitions
