XI'AN HORTICULTURAL MASTERPLAN, XI'AN, CHINA

摘要

Despite the Serie Architects' design team's strong desire to win this competition for masterplanning an ecological district in X'ian in central China, the opportunities that the site presented led to an entire rethink of the treatment of the historic centre of the city. This required a reconsideration of the total design brief - an intellectual adventure, but also a substantial commercial gamble. The proposal addresses two questions that face the expansion of the historic city of Xi'an: how does the city expand beyond its historic centre without totally dislocating itself into a peripheral condition, and how can the historic elements of the city be relevant in regulating this expansion?