LANDSCAPE URBANISM IN ENSA PARIS 18TH MARCH

AALU Graduate Jorge Martinez Ayala will be giving a talk in the university of Paris Malaquais outlining the new research lines set by Landscape Urbaism as a new discipline.

THE WORK OF PLASMASTUDIO + GROUNDLAB IN XIAN UNIVERSITY

Holger Kehne Ulla Hell and Alfredo Ramirez gave a joint lecture at Xian University on the 9th March 2009. The lecture focuses on the multiscalarity and transdisciplinary approach that permeates the work of Plasmastudio and Groundlab. A diverse range of projects from furniture and interior design to buildings and masterplanning were shown to depict the main principles behind the practices that connects them in a local, regional and global scales. Furthermore the lecture served to introduce to the public of Xian the winning competition entry for the Horticultural Fair of 2011 in Xian City China.

XI'AN WORLD HORTICULTURAL EXPO TO BE DEVELOPPED BY PLASMASTUDIO + GROUNDLAB







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.