XIAN HORTICULTURE MASTERPLAN

Competition 2nd Prize

Building Type: Green House and Expo Building
Location:  Chan-Ba Ecological District, Xian, China.

Learning from Xian
It is often assumed that the idea of the city is contradictory to the idea of landscape and nature. Thus more often than not, for landscape architecture projects worldwide today, we witness the endless proliferation of architecture that literally looks like landscape. Our proposal challenges these two tendencies. The history of the city of Xian, in particular its city walls is the starting point for our project. We derive 3 main concepts from this: