近日，加拿大皇家建筑师学会（RAIC）正式宣布，土人设计（Turenscape）荣获2025年RAIC国际奖（RAIC International Prize），以表彰其在“气候行动”主题下的卓越贡献。该奖项是全球建筑界最具影响力的荣誉之一，旨在表彰通过设计推动社会公平、生态可持续与人类福祉的杰出实践。土人设计凭借其“海绵城市”理念及全球范围内的创新生态实践，成为本年度唯一获此殊荣的机构。

RAIC国际奖由加拿大皇家建筑师学会于2013年设立，以建筑师雷蒙德·森山的理念为基石，倡导建筑在社会公正与可持续发展中的变革力量。此前获奖者有日本手塚建筑事务所、中国建筑师李晓东、新西兰原住民设计组织Ngā Aho等。2025年，奖项以“气候行动”为核心主题，重点关注应对气候变化、生态修复及低碳设计的先锋实践。

评委会在颁奖词中的评价：“土人设计的作品颂扬美学与生态，从自然系统中汲取智慧，提出整体性解决方案：修复退化的城市生态系统，提升防洪与海平面上升的韧性，培育城市中的自然栖息地，并打造激发人类与自然重新联结的灵感空间。”

以下为报道原文：

TURENSCAPE: 2025 WINNER  

The 2025 RAIC International Prize recipient is Beijing-based Turenscape. Led by Dr. Kongjian Yu, Turenscape has profoundly shaped the urban landscape of more than 250 cities globally through over 1,000 projects. Guided by their philosophical foundation of "Nature, Man, and Spirits as One," Turenscape seeks to promote harmony between land (Tu) and humanity (Ren) and to create sustainable environments for the future. 

（土人设计创始人，北京大学建筑与景观学院院长俞孔坚教授，是美国艺术与科学院院士，IFLA世界风景园林终身成就奖获得者，美国国家设计奖获得者。2023年荣获世界景观设计最高荣誉奥伯兰德奖。）

Turenscape’s foundation and body of work resonated with the selection committee, who noted that Turenscape “celebrates beauty and ecology, drawing lessons from natural systems to develop holistic responses that regenerate degraded urban ecosystems, increase resilience to flooding and sea level rise, cultivate natural habitats in urban areas, and create inspiring spaces that foster human reconnection to our natural world.” 

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Turenscape’s portfolio of work aims to redefine the fields of urbanism and landscape architecture through projects that foster a deep and lasting connection between communities and urban ecologies, allowing both to flourish over time. Their work addresses the interconnected contemporary challenges of climate change, ecological degradation, and urban expansion. As cities around the world struggle to respond to  the escalating challenges of climate change including urban flooding and sea level rise, Turenscape has gained international recognition for the Sponge City Concept. 

Sponge City designs draw inspiration from natural water flows and traditional methods for managing water during the monsoon season in rural China. This nature-based approach focuses on ecological restoration to support the natural cycles of water flow and absorption.  By doing so, these designs improve urban resilience, alleviate flood risks, reduce urban heat island effects, and offer low carbon solutions that enhance biodiversity, air quality, and urban aesthetics. Additionally, they offer inspiring places for community to reconnect with urban ecologies and contribute to broader urban climate adaptation efforts.  

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In 2013, Turenscape’s Sponge City vision was adopted as a national policy in China, prioritizing large-scale nature-based infrastructures. Key features of this approach include wetlands, greenways, parks, canopy tree and woodland protection, rain gardens, green roofs, permeable pavements, and bioswales. This work sets a powerful precedent for designing with water as a living system, rather than treating it as a threat. What stands out is its scalability and adaptability; it goes beyond a theorical concept and is now shaping urban planning policies. 

The interconnected climate and biodiversity crises necessitate architectural strategies that enact forms of 'radical repair' beyond the building and hard infrastructures. As built environment professionals, we must design urban environments that promote the healing of the land and support the ongoing flourishing of life. Where life does not flourish, we ultimately cannot thrive.  Sponge Cities set a precedent for practices worldwide, showcasing how water can be skillfully celebrated as a creative resource, the foundation of living systems, and an invaluable natural asset. 

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Turenscape’s Sponge City work offers a model for transforming our understanding of living in harmony with nature in a changing climate. Their work celebrates beauty and ecology, drawing lessons from natural systems to develop holistic responses that regenerate degraded urban ecosystems, increase resilience to flooding and sea level rise, cultivate natural habitats in urban areas, and create inspiring spaces that foster human reconnection with our natural world.  

Dr. Kongjian Yu advocates for rethinking our relationship with water and land, promoting blue-green urban ecotones that adapt to the increasing severity of disruptions to Earth’s water cycle caused by human-induced climate change. Sponge City design offers a rapidly scalable, nature-based, and carbon-positive alternative to traditional, carbon-intensive, gray infrastructure solutions for climate change adaptation. Yu's work integrates ecology, culture, and beauty, serving as an inspirational model for architects, urban planners, and landscape architects globally.”