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2010

No.4CN11-536

ISSN1673-1

Interview with Bernard LASSUS

The World University Park in Xian

Remodeling Paradise Landscape Renovation Round West Lake Region inHangzhou


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LandscapeArchitecture

012 Landscape should be Meaningful fo

Interview with Bernard LASSUS, winner of the 2009 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Gold Medal for Life A

By WANG Xiang-rong, ZHU Jian-ning a

The World University Park i016 IntroductionCreative Nature By Clare JACO

018 ProjectsThickened Waterfront, Eco Plane; Eco-Time; Wind Poem; Weaving Nature; Pamp

Garden of Forking Paths; Sky Garden; Landscape Urban Interference; S

038 Remodeling Paradise Landscape Renovation Round West Lake Region i

046 Shanghai Chenshan Bot

052 Lights City in the UBPA of EXP

056 Silv es C

060 Urban Park

066 Tel Aviv Port R

072 Flora of Landscape Thought (7)Gardens as Cultural Memory: The Eight Scenes of the Yue

090 Preliminary Study on the Planning and Design of the Sub-health -Oriented Urban Green O

By LIU Song ZHAN Ming- zhu and WEN

094 Thoughts on the Waterfront Landscape Controlling Strategy Landscape Plannin g for t

Shoreline of Rizhao By REN Jing-yan and

098 Theoretical Review on the Authe nticity of the Planning of Small Tourist Towns in M

By WAN

102 The Creation of Waterscape in the Ancient Villages in South An

A Case Study of Xidi and Hong Village By Guo Wei and

106 New Slab Stone Moutain Courtyard in the High-rise Building By WU Zhao-zhao and

110 T he Attitude of Structure Thoughts on the Construction of the Pavilion of in the Serpe

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114 Eco-Utopia China Park B

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2010/04 016 |

The World University Park in Xi'an |

Simon SCHAMA

Landscape and Memory

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Paul Tang

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There is something rather unnatural about

humans' interaction with nature. From clearing

forests for agriculture, to damming water for

electricity, to filling air with industrial pollutants,

this interaction has often meant destruction. Even

when destructive interventions are replaced with

creative ones, a disconnection remains. Gardens

throughout the centuriesthe Ryoan-ji Zen Garden,

the Humble Administrator's Garden, the Gardens of

Versailles, Kew Gardens, Central Park, Park Guell,

and the Getty Gardenwere not designed as loving

tributes to existing environments but instead as

laboratories of landscape theory, idyllic symbols

of the thinking of their times. Nature becomes

unnatural not only when it is physically altered,

but also when it is mentally appropriated. AsSimon SCHAMA wrote in Landscape and Memory,

landscapes are inextricably tied to the myths we

associate with them. Mankind has been shaped by

nature as much as it has shaped nature.

"Creative Nature" accepts the unnatural union

of nature and mankind as a basis for new garden

design. It celebrates the possibilities that human

intervention allows in redefining our surroundings.

These projects offer a variety of responses to

the call for a creative nature, showing the range

of contemporary landscape discourse. Subjects

found in the work include the connection and

disconnection of land and water, the sensory

experience of nature, reproduction of regional

identity, nature's relationship to culture, construction

as overlay onto nature, natural phenomena as form-

making devices, and ecological sustainability.

The World University Park is designed for the

2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition, whose

theme is Eternal Peace & Harmony between

Nature & Mankind. It is curated by Professor Paul

Tang, USC AAC Academic Coordinator under

the direction of Dean Ma Qinyun, University ofSouthern California, School of Architecture.The

expo administrat ion set aside 10,000 square

meters of manmade garden space for a Xi'an World

University Park to feature these designs from ten

major international universities: the Architectural

Associat ion, Columbia University, Feng Chia

University, Hong Kong University, Peking University,

Creative Nature ()

Text by Clare JACOBSON (US)

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, University of California

Berkeley, University of Saint Joseph, University of

Southern California, and University of Toronto.

All these projects respond to their site in the

ancient capital of China through references to

Chinese garden history, through responses to local

site conditions and plant sources, and through

cultural engagement of the visitors.

The landscape designs are currently under

construction and are scheduled to open at the 2011

Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition on 28 April 2011.

The exposition runs through 22 October 2011,

but these specific gardens will be permanent

landscapes in Xi'an. As representatives of a historical

moment in landscape architectural thought, Creative

Nature may be discussed in textbooks 100 yearsfrom now or forgotten 10 years from now. But its

ideas will doubtlessly lead to the next set of ideas

in our ever-expanding understanding of mankind's

relationship with nature.

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Biography:

Clare JACOBSON is a Shanghai-based d

editor, and curator. As an editor at Princet

Press for 21 years, she originated, acquir

more than 120 books on architecture, gra

landscape architecture, photography, and

She co-authored Karlssonwilker Inc.'s Tel

24 Months of a New York Design Compan

articles for Architectural Record and City W

Office. She received a BS and BArch in A

Penn State University.

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Fig.01 Map of the ten universities

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Fig.02 Master plan of the World University Park


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Thickened Waterfront

Thickened Waterfront takes advantage of its waterside

site to explore the idea of the edge. An edge can be a strict

line, the points where land meets water. Here instead it is a

multidimensional place where liquid and solid alternate to form

a transitional zone. Concrete and timber infrastructure, floating

pontoons, land and water plants, and water features including

ponds and a canal blur the border between water and garden.

Diagonal constructions disrupt the familiar horizontal and vertical

dimensions of space and add to the overall imprecision. The

resulting garden allows for multiple readings and experiences,

encouraging the visitor to participate in developing its meaning.

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Project Credit: Architectural Association, London, UK

Instructor: Eduardo RICO

Team: Jorge AYALA, Min Joo BAEK

Photo Credit: Architectural Association, London, UK

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Landscape design is the least static kind of

design, affected by daily, seasonal, and annual

events that affect its form and message. Historically

designers have tried to tame nature into idealized

configurations. Eco Plane instead accepts the

vagaries of i ts site as an important voice in

its design. This is achieved by constructing a

habitable platform onto the waterside site to create

a wetland, one of the most biologically diverse

of all ecosystems. As the seasons change the

water advances and recedes onto this platform,

creating different edge conditions. Ultimately, plant

life and wildlife, through constant adaptation and

modification, will seize control of the project.

Project Credit: Columbia University, New York, USA

Instructor: Jeffrey JOHNSON

Team Aidan FLAHERTY, Danil NAGY

Photo Credit: Columbia University, New York, USA

Eco Plane

SECTION C

SECTION B

SECTION A

Littoral Zone

Trees, Shrubs & Grasses

Emergent Rushes & Reeds

Sedges

Herbaceous Semi-Aquatic

Submerged, Emergent & FloatingHerbaceous Aquatics

High Water L

Low Water L

Rush

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Permanent Water Zone

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Fig.01 Eco Plane Conceptual Diagram

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Fig.02 Eco Plane Planting Plan

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Fig.03 Eco Plane Sections

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Fig.04 Renderings of Edge Condition Variations

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Fig.05 Section of Eco Zones


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The development of Green Technology in

the West has been centered on the reducing the

emission of pollutants, which is based on the concept

of 'control'. If the cycles of Nature are taken into

consideration, we will find that the '24 Solar Terms'

created by our Chinese ancestors can provide an

alternative solution.

Eco-Time try to define our site in Xi'an

according to the concept of Sundials and obtain a

series of patterns that represent the Order of Time.

These patterns have two properties: shadow angles

and shadow lengths (i.e. tracks of shadow tips). The

artificial landscape that we transform the geographic

coordinates of the site location into that of a time-

order coordinate is a vegetation engineering ecology

with gravity-fed drip irrigation and water recycling

systems. Based on the disposition of high-density

equidistant patterns, Eco-Time, which integrates Solar

Terms, on-site environmental limitation, topography,

paths, vegetal diversity, climatic conditions and

unpredictability of visitors behavior, creates a

constantly changing microclimate environment to

enrich the visitors experiences.

Project Credit: Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, China

Instructor: LEE Shwu-Ting

Team: WU Chih-Wen, WU Ming-Chung

Photo Credit: Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, China

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Fig.01 Time order textures

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Fig.02 Homogeneous disposition of points over

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Fig.03-05 Derived triangular and rhythmic object

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Fig.06 The change of direction of each object is c

perpendicularity between seasonal textures and th

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Fig.07-10 New rhythmic patterns

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Shadow: Revolution of Time Order.-Ecliptic

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Guide: Being guided by the search of a path.-Rh

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Hide: Hiding in the greenery.-Nature

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Drink: Drinking the water while thinking of its sou

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Can a garden represent the feeling of an

urban environment? Wind Poem is designed

to do just thatto re-create the dynamism of

Hong Kong. The city's constant flow of energy is

expressed as the constant motion of the wind.

The wind turbines are active day and night, like

the city itself. The design includes both places

to shelter from the wind and places to feel its

full force. Firefly lights mimic the lights of Hong

Kong streets, while texts carved into the sides of

benches appear like signs along the path.

Wind Poem

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Project Credit: Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China

Instructor: Matthew PRYOR

Team: Sissi XIE, Augustine LAM

Photo Credit: Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, China


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Weaving NatureVisitors commonly experience gardens by

walking on them or walking around them. Weaving

Nature introduces a third way of interacting.

Its designers fix a multifunctional net onto the

landscape to form a layer between the plants

and their visitors. The net produces a surface that

carries people on top of it, lighting structures below

it, and plants running through it. By using nets with

different mesh grids, the designers allow for various

functions, including resting areas, walking paths,

and recreation zones. The net produces minimal

disturbance to the site, allowing its natural condition

to thrive.

Project Credit: Peking University, Beijing, China

Instructor: HAN Xi-li

Team: TU Yi, WANG Dong

Photo Credit: Peking University, Beijing, China

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Fig.01 master plan

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Fig.02 Net plan

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Fig.03 Soil depth of invasion

plants

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Fig.04 water cellar plants

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Fig.05 Vegetation plan

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Fig.06 Construction Series

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Pampas Traces

The Pampas, Argentinas expansive fertile

lowlands, may seem completely divorced from the

gardens of China. But what both share is the image

they radiate to the people who know them images

based more on memory than on any precise

reading of the places. Pampas Traces attempts

to re-create the sense of the Pampas in the new

physical, geographical, and cultural situation of

Xi'an. Here the feeling of walking through shining

wheat fields is reproduced with winding paths

throughtall local plants lit with tall fiber optic lights

that sway in the breeze.

Project Credit: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires,

Argentina

Instructor: Sergio FORSTER

Team: Silvestre BORGATELLO, Carlos MAXIMILIANO,

Rosas ARRAIANO

Photo Credit: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires,

Argentina

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Garden of ForkingPaths

Some gardens set visitors on a single path on a prescribed route

past a series of sites. The Garden of Forking Paths offers a different

approach, allowing visitors to choose from many paths and, therefore,

many experiences. Visitors and water enter the site at one point. The

water and the path then branch, and branch again, shifting in both

horizontal and vertical space, until arriving at multiple destinations.

Visitors can use any sequence or combination of paths that they like.

In this way the garden acknowledges that in the contemporary world,

choices, routes, reversals, and caprices are not so simple and direct.

The garden is an allegory for life.

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Project Credit: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

Instructor: Karl KULLMANN

Team: Eustacia BROSSART, Amber D. NELSON

Photo Credit: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA


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Gardens often represent an ideal vision of

nature. Sky Garden demonstrates a futurist vision of

nature, acknowledging that design does not merely

reflect culture but also serves to shape it. It refracts

cultural and ecological associations with the sky to

comment on our complicated perspective of nature.

Its three key featuressolar atrium, reflection

garden, and cloud shelterreference three basic

relationships that humans have with the skydirect

connection, reflection, and shelter. Sky Garden

allows visitors to get lost in the sky and to feel the

implications of their current trajectory, and thus to

alter it.

Project Credit: University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, USA

Instructor: Alexander ROBINSON

Team: XU Bo-hua, WANG Rui

Photo Credit: University of Southern California, Los Angeles,

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LandscapeUrbanInterference

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Over the course of six centuries, Macau has

transformed from an island community dependent

on the natural resources of its land and water to a

global community detached from its environment.

The fishing villages, stilt houses, and elevated

walkways that identified Macau in the past have

been replaced with the high-rise casinos and

hotel complexes that dominate now. Landscape

Urban Interference reflects on this humanization of

natural environments through an abstract pattern

of landscape designs. Elevated bamboo walkways

direct visitors through the site and reference

structures once common in Macau culture. These

bridges are also metaphors of Macaus political,

geographical, and cultural ties to the mainland

Project Credit: University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China

Instructor: Filipe BRAGANCA

Team: Manuel CORREIA, Nuno SOARES, Nigel GODDEN,

Yves SONOLET

Photo Credit: University of Saint Joseph, Macau, China

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MotionSensor

ElectronicsPackage

Electric Fan

EssentialOil Vial

HighIntensity LEDLamp

WindAnnemometer

Scent Garden

Scent Garden delights all the

favoring smell. I ts terraced pin

beds of rosemary and thyme build

unique olfactory world. The local

an olfactory, visual, and tactile con

Scent poles encasing plant extrac

these smells with exotic accents

locales to create an olfactory m

Together the scents marry natur

Scent Garden is both spectacula

Its constellation of glowing scent

iconic image that denotes the gard

space, while its nuanced sensory re

sheltered and individual experiences

Project Credit: University of Toronto, Toro

Instructor: Rodolphe el-KHOURY

Team: Drew ADAMS, James DIXON, Fad

Photo Credit: University of Toronto, Toron

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Fig.04 View from Plaza toward Garden Pavilion

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Fig.06 Site Section

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