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The 2nd BFU International Garden-making Festival: Fifteen gardens are blooming

The 2nd BFU International Garden-making Festival, with the theme of “Poetry of the Garden,” was opened at the Xuezi Qing Square of University on October 13, 2019. Within three and a half days, fifteen teams from and abroad used and flowers to build their gardens, which combined the aesthetics of the Chinese traditional poems with the beauty of construction art.

Figure 1 Opening Ceremony

This festival was divided into four phases: (1) design scheme collection and selection; (2) construction drawings and feasibility analysis; (3) on-site construction; and (4) on-site awards voting and exhibition. Since the call for submissions in January 2019, it has received the attention of 2004 teachers and students from 103 universities. After several rounds of selection, the organizing committee eventually invited fifteen teams to build their gardens, including Beijing Forestry University, University, , National Chiba University, University, Southwest Forestry University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Northwest A&F University, South China University of Technology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (), , Agriculture and Forestry University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. These teams combined theory and practice, integrated material construction and artistic expression, compared gardening skills, and created poetic gardens. The jury of this festival consists of fifteen experts and scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, South , , Belgium, the

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Netherlands, Germany and other countries and regions. In the end, three works won the Outstanding Awards, including Chiba University's "Between the Orders and Chaos", 's "Wind Nest", and Beijing Forestry University's "Black Hole". Five works won the Award of Excellence, including Beijing Forestry University's "Fun Cage", South China University of Technology’s "Crunch", RMIT University’s "Celebrating the Otherness", the Central Academy of Fine Arts "Garden Appeared in Bamboo ", Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts "Vanish in a Flash". Seven works won the Honor Awards, including ’s "Lotus in Breeze", Tsinghua University "Zi Fei Fish”, Southwest Forestry University’s "Ferry", Harbin Institute of Technology’s "The Wind Rises", Northwest A&F University’s "Lying on Clouds", Chulalongkorn University "Naga: The Rebirth to Enlightenment", and Zhejiang A&F University’s “Dwelling in ”. This festival was co-sponsored by Beijing Forestry University, the International Bamboo and Organization and the CHSLA Committee. The School of Landscape of Beijing Forestry University, Zhejiang Bamboo Culture Tourism Development Co., Ltd. and Landscape Architecture Magazine organized the festival.

Figure 2 James Hayter, IFLA President and Chairman of the Jury, is giving an overall review of the 2nd BFU International Garden-making Festival and announcing the results of the awards.

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Figure 3 Speech by An Lizhe, President of Beijing Forestry University

Figure 4 Speech by Lu Wenming, Deputy Director General of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization

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The Fifteen Built Gardens

1. Between the Orders and Chaos School: Chiba University Advisers: Mitani Toru, Shimoda Ryosuke Participants: Yamazaki Shohei, Mizutani So, Yamashita Masahiro, Liu Shuhao, Koikawa Teppei, Sasaki Kei,Tanimoto Miyu, Yan

Design notes：Everything in the world was born out of chaos, but always pursue the order, eventually dying and returning to chaos. Chaos and disorder, heaven and earth, yin and yang always balance in dynamics. This work takes bamboo tube as the ground, symbolizes order, and uses the bamboo strip as the sky, expressing disorder, concealing the yin and yang of the reincarnation of the cycle.

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2. Wind Nest School: Tianjin University Adviser: Wang Hongcheng, Yike Participants: Chen Lijun, Deng Jian, Sun Yawei, Zhang Erke, Guo Ru, Liu Runtong, Zhang Hao, Zhang Jiale Design notes: Wind uses the momentum to rein everything. Nest gathers the strength of everyone. This design’s inspiration comes from the lighter bamboo structure to create a nest full of inspiration, while swaying flower border was to show the nest that gathering inspirations, which combined dynamic and static. The Wind Nest refers that the inspiration of students is like the shining stars. Under the influence of the wind, the Wind Nest gather as much less. Wind Nest can also be understood as Trends. That can attract the wind, which demonstrates the courage of young students to create a new era. Flower and bamboo are integrated, decreasing the distance among visitors, vegetation and bamboo structure, and creating the experience of "People walk in the bamboo structure, just like in the light wind". Structural design: By building a real model, we verified the feasibility of this design, and show the lightness and flexibility of bamboo fully. Flower border design: The ground streamline model combines with the trajectory of the grass to form the wind and realizes the blending of the wind and bamboo to create a poetic realm.

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3. Black Hole School: Beijing Forestry University Advisers: Feng Xiao, Duan Wei Participants: Qian Xiaoqin, Lu Jing, Xie Jiaqi, Li Ting, Liao Jingjing,Nie Lei, Liang Tong, Yang Ruiying Design Notes: The universe is a garden that is intertwined with real and absolute illusions. Inspired by the "Black Hole", the scheme is formed by three respectively tilted elliptical planes to form a horizontal skeleton, curved bamboo cross-woving in vertically. The "hole" at the top symbolizes an infinitely extended universe, but the "universe" is not out of reach. The bamboo curtains hanging in the center, as if "Black Holes" attracting people in it. The "pick-up" corner becomes the entrance, and the tall pennisetum surrounded creating a secret, romantic space for thinking. The viewer sat on the ground, gradually falling into wild imagination about the universe and ego.

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4. Fun Cage School: Beijing Forestry University Advisers: Zheng Xiaodong, Li Hui Participants: Tong Jiayu, Yu Yongxin, He Daina, Zhang Na, Cai Qifeng, Liang Jinzi, Liu Huizi, Zhu Zining Design Notes: Life is like a fortress besieged. Those who are outside wanting to get in, and those who are inside wanting to get out. Looking for the meaning of life is an individual journey. We’re tired of seeking fortune and fame, which have prisoned us like invisible cages. As said in his poem, “We have been in the cage too long. It's time to back to nature.” The Fun Cage in is a secret place. The ones out of the cage are curious to know what the inside of it looks like. The ones in the cage are eager to see what happened outside. Therefore, we broke the boundary between inside and outside to blur the division. You can find nature out of the cage,

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5. Crunch School: South China University of Technology Advisers: Lin Guangsi, Xiong Lu Participants: Wang Quhe, Liu Yao, Zhong Heli, Li Yue, Shen Pan, Chi Wenxiu, Chen Mengyun, Zhou Zhaosen Design notes: Life is full of tension and busyness, control and out of control. Inspired by the flexible features of bamboo, this design tries to focus on the “bounce”, and produces a series of ever-changing visual and spatial experience in the process of people's activities: Is it oppressive, cautious, nervous and upset? Or the light ups and downs, the light and shadow around, and the floating consciousness? Finally, when you walk out and step back to the ground, the garden appears again, but the slight sway still exists, is the surrounding world still the original one?

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6. Celebrating the Otherness School: RMIT University Advisers: Li Zixuan, Jock Gilbert Participants: Zhuge Huaying, Xu Yao, Luo Jiayi, Hu Jinyu, Sun Mingze, Xu Zheng, Xiao Jiafeng Design notes: Urban void, also called negative space, is the left-over space that existing between gaps of buildings and blocks. Urban void is ephemeral, flexible and transformative, it forms part of the surrounding environment together with permanent infrastructural and coherent road system. In 2005, Heike Rahmann and Marieluise Jonas state in Void that, the total proportion of vacant space within major metropolis is slightly fluctuating at 4%, due to permanent urban transformation. This

9 land of indecision allows people to re-organize the space based on their preference and desire. Urban void is anything but nothing, it is not only a non-programmed space that contains alternative functions and possibilities, but also an ephemeral object that people can freely define as. To highlight and celebrate the active performance and ecological capacity of urban void, I would like to build up a pop-up pavilion that introduce the urban void as a form rather than a space. In here, the materials bamboo and herbs would be defined by their capabilities: as a changeable process, the pavilion witnesses the change of light and shadow, captures every single moment of vegetation growth, colonization, competition and decay. Fully expresses the tenacity and constitutive property of bamboo in design, the pavilion is designate to guide people to discover the hidden urban void, value it and finally celebrate the performance of urban void for interpreting society and personal contemplation.

7. Garden appeared in Bamboo forest School: Central Academy of Fine Art Advisers: Wu Xiangyan, Zhang Qian Participants: Hu Yuchen, Xie Xiuzhu, Lian Jingsen, Sun Kunlun, Zhao Wenjian, Wang Xinyu, Chen Ning, Wu Ji Design notes: "Bamboo garden", use metaphors, symbols, and the positive transformation, shape the hidden in the bamboo forest small hexagonal pavilion (negative), pavilion rockery scattered around, thick bamboo , just like the beautiful pastoral. Pavilion is an important element of Chinese classical garden, which embodies the idea of harmony between man and nature. The design emphasizes hazy

10 beauty and artistic conception beauty. Within 4 mx4mx4m space, with the kiosk solid shape to cut with fine bamboo pole, the pavilion of negative space. Looking from the outside, the shape of the pavilion is like concealed; Into the booth, as if place oneself again thick bamboo forest. The design difficulty lies in how to cut the shape, so that the negative shape is accurate, but not rigid. Therefore, the hexagonal pavilion is selected. The outline is simplified into a triangular and hexagonal base, which is cut along the oblique Angle to make the entrance clear without any rigidity. The components have been simplified for many times to ensure the modularization and simplicity of the construction as far as possible. At the same time, the components have considered certain scalability to adapt to the different characteristics of bamboo diameters.

8. Vanish in a Flash School: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Advisers: Yang Yiding, Jin Tao Participants: Ma Xulong, Gong Bowei, Gao Wanqi, Li Wei, Guo Chao, Pan Hong, Jiang Meng, Chen Guiling Design notes: "Vanishes in a Flash" means quick, agile, suddenly triggered. Today's society is fast-paced, stressful, fragmented life influences and shapes the youngers' thinking habits, make It's harder to concentrate. Long reading ability declines. Precious rest time also disappears like "Vanishes in a Flash". If you take advantage of the light, dexterous, straight and tough nature of bamboo, you will create a place for people to rest, talk, and sit, attracting people to drink tea. It is hoped that

11 people can make good use of the rest time, make full use of people's broken leisure time, come in to feel a piece of cool and refreshing brought by bamboo, let this rare time more beautiful, feel the poetry brought by nature!

9. Lotus in breeze

School：Chongqing University Advisers: Xia Hui, Luo Dan Participants: Zou Yuhang, Feng Qing, Zhang Lili, Cheng Yu, Ding Xinxin, Jing Qiaolin, Gao Yifei, Zhang Honghai Design notes: With " A breeze with the fragrance of lotus in bamboo forest " as the imagery and " A slim lotus , not yet unfurled, scarcely appears" as the display mode, the design extracts the elements of lotus petals and forms the experience space called bamboo forest with four petals. The Twisted Bamboo highlights the flexibility

12 and streamline space of the petals, while the bamboo on the bottom adopts the same vertical twisting shape, as if the breeze was blowing, which rippling the pool, just like the poetic artistic conception of " the yard glittered bright as if from pools of water crisscrossed with aquatic , which turned out to be shadows of bamboos and cypresses."

10. Zi Fei Yu School: Tsinghua University Advisers: Li Shuhua, Zhang Xueling Participants: Yang Che, Wei Xinchen, Li Jingke, Wang Yaqi, Jiang Ting, Yang Linfeng, Guo Hao Design notes: “You are not a fish; how can you know the enjoyment of fish?”

（Zhuang Zi, 369 B.C.- 286 B.C.） With only a single stroke, fish appears on the

13 sea. Modestly, low-profile, swimming but not exact shape. Bamboo, the very material which is stubborn, while its flexibility is stunning. However, our purpose doesn’t simply distinguish the difference between bent or straight. Complex curves and dazzle appearance can’t represent the inner spirits of bamboo. Single curved bamboo, and a bunch of grass. Leisurely, carefree and enjoyment. Requiring material to the lowest extent, using simplest arrangement. While the form and structure is pure, it conveys our intentions to give slight but meaningful modifications to the landscape, to introduce warm natural and humanistic care, and to express Chinese philosophy of infusing thoughts within simple forms. Why can’t we be like fish?

11. Ferry School: Southwest Forestry University Adviser: Song Yuhong Participants: Li Haibo, Kuang Liuqingchen, Zhang He, Liu wenhui, Yu Jiawei, Liu Na, Li Jinzhou, Yue Rong Design notes: "Spring water is more exquisite than the sky, sleeping in the painting boat and listening to the rain", to meet the many people on the rain Jiangnan fantasy. A flat boat takes you to cross the river spring water, drive you to cross the

14 misty rain, you find full of boat clear dream. The design takes Jiangnan caravan as the prototype, extracts the elements of canopies in caravan, and overlays two canopies, meaning that two boats in the water meet. In the front of the site with bamboo slices made of water waves, meaning the flow of river water. Surround the body of the structure of the "Jiangxinzhou" inside with a variety of rich layers of potted flowers, this is not only reflecting the colorful plant landscape along the Jiangnan river, but also creates an elegant meditation space.

12. The Wind Rises School: Harbin Institute of Technology Advisers: Lu Shiliang, Yu Yang Participants: Zhou Xuzhi, Ha Hongzhu, Yu Bo,Jiang Yuqian, Zeng Jing, Qian Haojie, Zhang Qiyu, Luo Tianyi Design notes: The wind can make the leaves of the late autumn fall off, and it can promote the flowers of the early spring. When it scrapes into the bamboo forest, it can blow the bamboos swing. The wind rises gently, and our bamboo architecture is like a

15 girl's skirt in the garden, like a leaf that dances with the wind, or a butterfly that dances. The sun shines through the gaps of the bamboo rafts, and we want to create a communication space for people to rest, entertain, meditate, etc., and provide a stopover for nature in the campus.

13. Lying on Clouds School: Northwest A&F University Advisers: Zhang Xinguo,Yang Meihua Participants: Meng Fanqi, Liu Haolin, Feng Yimeng, Chen Jin, Hong Haoting, Wang Yihan, Hong Yang, Yu Chongguang Design notes: Our scheme is inspired by the shape of "cloud", coupled with the thought of a poetic dwelling way and the concept of "lying ". Bamboo has a high tensile and compressive strength, which contributes to an organic and poetic space

16 combination. Its three levels of spatial structure (high, middle and low) and different functions (for sitting, laying and relying) show a poetic and leisure state, remaining a little free world in the high-intensity and fast-paced study/work life for us to return to nature, relax our body and feel life.

14. Naga: The Rebirth to Enlightenment School: Chulalongkorn University

Advisers: Terdsak Tachakitkachorn、Ariya Aruninta

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Participants: Svit Piriyasurawong、Theappitaknillawan、Sirirak Wongsim、

Kornkanokrit Chauprampare、Natdanai Tumpanuwat、Sviadol Footrakui Design notes: This pavilion represents a Naga’s hut. A Naga, a powerful serpent who can take the form of a human being, was mistakenly ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk. The Lord Buddha summoned the Naga and told him he may not remain as a monk, at which the utterly disconsolate snake began to weep. The snake was given the 5 Precepts as the means to attaining a human existence in his next life when he can then be a monk and may not be monks and if 'ordained' mistakenly must be asked to leave. Landscape Design of the garden conceptualizes the way to reach the enlightenment, Buddha compared human as lotus in 4 positions. First is the under- the-mud lotus who cannot understand anything. Second is the under-the-water lotus who must take time to understand something. Third is the boom lotus who can understand anything so fast, and they really need the instructor or the knowledge from anywhere. Forth is the bloom lotus who are bright. They can understand everything suddenly and correct. What exactly constituted the Enlightenment, or the Buddhism awakening may probably have involved the wisdom that combine mindfulness and the understanding of the arising and ceasing of craving. When people are calm or dhyāna (Sanskrit) or jhāna (Pali), they will understand everything well.

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15. Dwelling in Leaves School: Zhejiang A&F University Advisers: Hong Quan, Tang Hui Chao Participants: Yang Jingming, Hu Beibei, Zheng Duola, Zhang Yuhui, Xiao Da, Zhao Qi, Huang Shengmeng Design notes: We take the minimal and great image of "leaf" as the prototype and use two closed leaves to form a space with blurred interior and exterior functions such as marching, turning and staying. We also use the color contrast of cold blue, purple border and warm orange and yellow border on the west side to indicate the different feelings of quiet and lively in different spaces and integrate the bamboo structure with the garden. To show our understanding of the Poetic Garden of modern cities, breathing in the gap of real life, it is a stop and rest place, to accommodate one's perception of life, and it is a moving understanding of oneself.

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Jury Convener: WANG Xiangrong, Dean and professor of the School of Landscape

Architecture，Beijing Forestry University

Members: Bradley Cantrell, Director and professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture, , USA CAI Wei, Chairman of Zhejiang Bamboo Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. David Biggs, Associate Professor of history and geography in the , Riverside Ed Wall, Dean of the School of Landscape Architecture, University of Greenwich, UK Elizabeth Mossop, Professor and director of the Department of Design Architecture and Architecture, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia James Hayter, President of International Federation of Landscape Architects Jose Alfredo Ramirez Galindo, Co-sponsor of the March/MSC postgraduate courses, director and co-director of the Ground Laboratory, Architectural Association School of Architecture. UK Kim, Jin-Oh, Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Art & Design, Kyung Hee University LIU Kewei, Project Coordinator of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation Makoto Yokohari, Professor of Landscape, , Japan Nicolas GODELET, Founder of NICOLAS GODELET Architects & Engineers Steffen Nijhuis, Associate professor of the Department of Urbanism, School of Architecture and Built-up Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Udo Weilacher, Professor of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscape, School of Architecture, Technical University of Munich, Germany Valentin Johannes (Han) Meyer, Professor of the Department of Urbanism, School of Architecture and Built-up Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

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