BEYOND YUE - JIANHU REVIVA
- Jianhu International Planning and Design Competition -
The Third Prize
Professional project
Team work
Year: 2022
Location: Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
Chief Architect:
Olivier Greder (Olivier Greder Architecture)
Team Members:
Architect: Mingze Bao / Xiaofan Chen / Weihang Gao
Landscape Architect: Lan Jiang / Xiaoxia Luo
Internship: Haiyue Chen / Liren Chu / Xiangyue Lu / Jinge Qian / Ziyi Sheng
Translation: Zhenchen Jin
Post-processing of renderinng: Jia Peng
Video: Xuandonng Visual Company
Thanks: Jean Louis POURNY / Huiyu Tan / Lv Zha
© Olivier Greder Architecture
(Click the image to watch the competition video.)
Beginning with the Southern Song Dynasty, Jian lake was polderized for farming while West Lake in Hangzhou became the Lake of the Imperial City. From that moment on, the great territorial figure of Shaoxing disappeared. Beyond Southern Song Dynasty there is no more Jian lake. We need to rewrite a new history to this lost landscape to revive it. We must have the courage to undo some of what was achieved here under the Southern Song Dynasty.
In a region of lakes and water we must have a water centric strategy. Our plan is such a 100-year strategy centered on water.
— Olivier Greder Architecture