Canopy of purple wisteria over dark-trunked rows along a modern garden path beside a narrow canal; visitors stroll.
Taiyuan Jinyang Lake Entrance
China
  • Cultural
  • Landscape Design
  • Study
 
 

Study
06/2017

Project team
Dušan Sekulić, Manuel Bonell, Toni Nachev, Thomas Peter-Hindelang

CONSULTANTS
Coordination
Yiju Ding

Structural engineering
Bollinger+Grohmann

The actor is nature
自然是主角

Abstract architectural sketch of an interior space featuring a diagonal staircase amid a grid of lines.
Purple wisteria blooms draped over black poles in an expansive grove with pale ground and circular pebble patches.
People stroll along a canal beneath a purple wisteria canopy in a modern garden.
Slender trees with purple wisteria overhead in a modern open-air garden walkway, with circular ground patterns and tall black columns.
Person walks along a curved white spiral ramp to a modern viewing structure, set in a vast lavender field under a blue sky.
Hand-drawn schematic with interconnected circles and lines on white background.

Site plan
Sketch

Lavender field stretches across the foreground with a white spiral water slide on a hill under a pale blue sky.

Concept
Structural Engineering

Abstract line drawing of a tall, tangled structure rising from a straight horizon line on white background.
Wireframe model of a vast scaffolding grid supporting a curved elevated track with circular loops on the right.

Overview
roof and tower structure in perspective view

Architectural drawing: top shows a large tapered perforated funnel with looping ribbon; bottom shows a circular structure under wooden scaffolding.

Overview
roof and tower structure in top view
perspective view from the entrance side

Architectural garden under a canopy of purple wisteria; tall trunks in circular planters, curved white walkway, visitors strolling.

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