LOLA

The Xili water reservoir was constructed, 60 years ago, when the villages of Baimang, Makan, and Dakan started protecting Xili’s water source. While building reservoirs, repairing rivers and drawing blue lines, enriched the ecological resources, in a certain extent it also limited the development of the three villages. LOLA participated, together with L+CC, Taller and One Architecture, in the international competition of the overall concept planning and landscape design scheme of Blueway around Xili Reservoir. Our plan based on the concept of a ‘nourishing city’ won second place out of 27 design teams.

Nourishing City explores a future-oriented development model for three villages in the context of water source protection. The design takes the blueway around Xili as the context and opportunity of development, and integrate into the new development of the city with a new attitude. Our design is inspired by the indigenization of the site, allowing us to re-define the characters and features of three villages with local flora and fauna, local materiality, and local colors. It is the time for them to enjoy the water.

We created 4 water-source experiences for the Node Parks, Baimang Water Interaction park, Makan Water Culture Park, Water Education Park, and Dakan Water Sports Park. The effect of Nourishing City on the development of the three villages will have a different emphasis. At the same time, echoing the characteristics of the three villages, creating three different experience paths, including forest interactive water loop, material educational water path, and colorful sports water network.