CAA’s gold-prize gardening work
CAA’s silver-prize gardening work
News Brief
By Sun Yuxin
Recently, two works by a team led by Shen Shixian from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the China Academy of Art (CAA) won the gold and silver prizes at the Seoul International Garden Show 2024 (SIGS). Among all the 113 entries and 10 finalists, the two winning gardening works are now exhibited in Ttukseom Hangang Park in Seoul, the Republic of Korea.
The gold-prize work, “Section Garden”, features five rusty steel habitat islands along the curved sunken ramp to demonstrate typical plant communities of the Republic of Korea. Through a designed glass section, people can see the soil profile, the growth of plant roots, and even the tiny insects in the soil. The silver-award work applies slime mold algorithm to landscape inference to generate garden forms and structures, linking the possibilities of life with the random opportunities of gardens.
Organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, this year’s Seoul International Garden Show is the largest one ever held since its launch in 2015. The entire exhibition will remain open until Oct 8 this year with free admission.