Plasmastu­dio has recently won the com­pe­ti­tion to deve­lop the buil­ding and land­s­cape design for Hor­ticul­tu­ral Expo in Xi’an, China. The pro­ject com­pri­ses 15,000 exhi­bi­tion hall buil­ding, a series of con­serva­to­ries, a 37Ha park around an arti­fi­cial lake as well as ancil­li­ary buil­dings. The next stages of deve­lo­p­ment will take place during the next mon­ths with the colla­bo­ration of Plasmastu­dio (buil­dings) and Groundlab (land­s­cape urba­nism).
Xi’an is a city based in thou­sands of years of anci­ent cul­ture. As the home of the Terra Cotta Army and the begin­ning of the Silk Road, Xi’an has clai­med its place in China’s eter­nal his­tory. In this tra­di­tion, Flowing Gar­dens is a har­mo­nic relati­on­ship between Xi’an’s won­d­rous past and its exci­ting future; hor­ticul­ture and tech­no­logy; land­s­cape and archi­tecture. Flowing Gar­dens enhan­ces the inhe­rent beauty of Xi’an by intensi­fy­ing the cha­rac­te­ris­tics of the exis­ting fab­ric while cre­a­ting a self-sustainable land­s­cape for the future.

Flowing Gar­dens begins from a sin­gle line — an axis extends from the Gate to the Gre­e­nhouse, tra­ve­ling through the East and West Hills and over the lake, while exten­ding into many sinu­ous paths, cre­a­ting a network of inter­min­g­ling cir­cu­lation, land­s­cape and water. Much like the legen­dary Silk Road, Flowing Gar­dens is con­necti­vity, cir­cu­lation, reju­ve­nation, and elegance.

zdroj: aa land­s­cape urbanism