Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition

Xian International Horticultural Exposition 2011

synonym

Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition generally refers to 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition

The 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition is abbreviated as Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition, which is the Third World Horticultural Exposition held in China. The exposition was held in Chanba Ecological District of Xi'an from April 28 to October 22, 2011, with a duration of 178 days. The theme of the Expo is "Chang'an, heaven and man, creative nature, harmonious coexistence of city and nature". The emblem and mascot are both named "Chang'an flower", which means "happy with the horse's hoof disease, see Chang'an flower in one day". The concept is "green leads fashion", advocating "simple but not luxurious, low-carbon bid farewell to high consumption, return to nature, no carving, green life becomes the pursuit of fashion". The image spokesperson is Yan Ni, a star from Xi'an, and Li Meng, a girl from Xi'an. The total area of the World Horticultural Exposition Park is 418 hectares, including 188 hectares of water area. The landmark buildings include Chang'an tower, creative Museum, nature museum and Guangyun gate, which display exquisite works of art, sculptures, rare birds and rare animals from home and abroad. People will fully appreciate the beauty of gardens, horticulture, architecture and art.

Introduction to the Expo

The 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition was held in Chanba Ecological District of Xi'an from April 28 to October 22, 2011. The duration of the exposition is 178 days. More than 100 cities and institutions at home and abroad are invited to participate in the Expo, including more than 40 foreign cities and institutions. It is estimated that 12 million tourists will visit the Expo. The total area of the Expo Park is 418 hectares, including 188 hectares of water area. 109 outdoor exhibition parks are set up, bringing together about 7 kinds of flowers and plants, more than 70 million plants, 40 million pots of flowers and 500000 trees from all over the world. The landmark buildings are Chang'an tower, creative Museum, nature museum and Guangyun gate; the theme horticultural attractions are Chang'an Flower Valley, colorful Zhongnan, silk road flower rain, Overseas Grand View and Bashang rainbow; and there are three characteristic service areas: Bashang people's home, Yefeng waterfront and European customs; At the same time, the exhibition of exquisite artworks, sculptures, rare birds and animals from home and abroad will give people a full appreciation of the beauty of gardens, horticulture, architecture and art.

Main venue

Guangyuntan, the main venue of 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition, is located on the Bank of Chanba, which is known as "Bashang" in history. It is one of the main ports in ancient China. During the Tianbao period of Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty held large-scale water transportation expositions and trade fairs here, showing the development of Commerce and trade and the smooth flow of water transportation in Tang Dynasty, which created the beginning of the world exposition. Today's Guangyuntan is about 6 km long and 2.3 km wide. From south to north, it is divided into Bahe tobacco willow landscape belt, dynamic sightseeing landscape area, ecological wetland tourism area and tourist resort landscape area, forming a layout of "one belt, three supporting areas" and becoming an organic landscape.

theme

Chang'an · creative nature -- harmonious coexistence of city and nature

Interpretation: "heaven" refers to nature, "man" refers to the city, "Chang'an" is the historical name of the ancient capital Xi'an, and also a symbol of national prosperity and peace. "Chang'an" means the harmonious coexistence of urban nature; "creative nature" is to use nature, repair nature and make nature serve human beings on the premise of respecting nature and not destroying nature.

idea

Green leads fashion

Advocate "simple but not luxurious, low-carbon bid farewell to high consumption, return to nature, no carving, green life has become the pursuit of fashion."

Emblem mascot

Chang'an flower, meaning "happy horse hoof disease, a day to see Chang'an flower.".

Interpretation of the emblem: the idea of "Chang'an flower" of the emblem of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition originates from Tao Te Ching: "Tao gives birth to one, life two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things". It is a "hundred flowers auspicious seal" composed of three, four, five, and hexagonal natural petals. The definition is: three things, flowers bloom auspicious; four for the earth, heaven round place; five leaves of wood, forest shade; six flow into water, moisten everything.

Mascot interpretation: the mascot of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition takes the pomegranate flower as the core creativity, the whole body is pomegranate red, and the body is round and lovely.

Image spokesmen: Yan Ni, a star from Xi'an, and Li Meng, a girl from Xi'an

Landmark building

Guangyunmen

Guangyunmen is the main entrance of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition. It is located in the northeast of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition. It spans the 60 meter wide Expo Avenue and can pass more than 20000 people per hour during the peak period. The ramp composed of step, waterscape and square gardening flowers connects the up and down, and integrates with Changan Flower Valley, forming a strong shock effect with its magnificent momentum. As the starting point of the whole landscape park, the gate is permeated with design elements reflecting green gardening color, such as planting, Waterscape, etc. The building structure is reinforced concrete structure, but the material selection is decorated with natural wood and regional granite, and Chinese elements are also cleverly interspersed.

Chang'an tower

Located on xiaozhongnan mountain, the commanding height of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition Park, Chang'an tower is not only the symbol of the world horticultural exposition, but also the observation tower of the park. Visitors can climb the tower to have a panoramic view of the whole park. The design maintains the charm of the square Pagoda in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and adds modern elements. It not only reflects the connotation of Chinese architectural culture, but also shows the fashionable and modern urban style. It is the practice and demonstration of ecological architecture, and will become a landmark building to enhance the connotation of urban architectural culture in Xi'an. The whole tower adopts advanced internal steel frame supporting structure, and the roof and all overhanging eaves adopt safety glass, which together with the glass curtain wall of the wall form the effect of crystal tower. The shape of Chang'an pagoda has the characteristics of the traditional wooden pagoda of the Tang Dynasty: one layer of overhanging eaves and one layer of seats on top, which are full of rhythm. The size of overhanging eaves on each floor is wide and upward, which reflects the far-reaching characteristics and style of the eaves of the wooden structure buildings in the Tang Dynasty. The combination of metal components between eaves and column head is the abstraction and generalization of traditional architecture eaves bucket arch system. The glass curtain wall retreats to the inner side of the outer trough column and is fixed with the column and beam through the glass rib. A series of treatments make the architecture of Tang style and Tang rhyme full of modern sense. A large number of steel structures and related components are used in Chang'an tower, which is known as the "green building" in the 21st century. In order to show the inclusiveness and profundity of Chinese civilization, hundreds of precious cultural relics and contemporary art treasures are exhibited in Chang'an tower. There are ten groups of national treasure level cultural relics from Zhou, Qin, Han, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties, including bronze, stone, mud, pottery and other materials, as well as casting, gilding, gilding, pastel, Tang tricolor and other crafts. In response, contemporary works of art also cover bamboo carving, nuclear carving, ceramics, glass, gold carving, stone and other materials, techniques, authors and collections Home comes from China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, America and all over the world.

Creative Museum

The creative Pavilion is located on the main axis of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition. The whole pavilion is designed in combination with the wharf and surrounding sites. The architectural layout is in the shape of "King", which is composed of three wings of irregular geometry. The irregular connection of different finishes, such as bronze metal, stone and garden style planting roof, has formed the artistic effect of scattered and rich connotation. The building is naturally divided into three relatively independent exhibition areas extending to the water surface, which are connected through the transverse passage. Visitors can access the roof viewing platform through a series of indoor display ramps. The main body of the structure adopts the form of reinforced concrete combined with steel structure, and the roof uses the concrete folded plate structure to meet the needs of the building for large-span space. The beautiful structural form reflects the highest level of architectural art combining function and form. The facade of the building is made of bronze and glass. The unique shape of the building is like a bronze work of art inlaid with diamonds standing by the lake. The exhibition hall is divided into six exhibition areas: preface hall, plant factory, horticultural era, dream square, home of plants, and journey of life on earth. The exhibition will display blue rose, gold rose, fragrant rose, Earl Eve, black rose, rainbow rose, 360 ° dome image, soilless cultivation, organic agriculture and other new achievements, new products, and environmental protection and energy saving technologies of garden gardening and plant flowers New materials.

Nature Museum

The nature museum is the plant greenhouse of Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition. It is located on the Bank of Jinxiu lake. The semi buried underground facade materials are glass, wood and a small amount of concrete. It is built against the mountain and overlaps in layers. It is perfectly combined with the terrain. That is to say, the volume of the building is weakened from the height and vision, so that you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake and the Garden opposite from different elevations. The plants in the natural museum are distributed in many layers. The upper layer likes light and the lower layer likes light and half shade. There are small trees and shrubs. This kind of hierarchical design is called "niche", which can reduce the mortality of plants in the embassy. The nature museum is divided into tropical rain forest plant exhibition area, extremely cold plant exhibition area and endemic plant exhibition area. It mainly displays more than 530 rare plants and ecological landscapes in different regions and climate zones of the earth. There are not only various rare flowers and trees, but also the desert landscape of cactus forest, four large insect models made according to bionics, as well as a variety of colorful and different shapes of butterflies, reptiles and beetles.

Chang'an Garden

Space science education exhibition area

The exhibition park is built on the mountain, covering an area of 13530 square meters. The overall shape is full of the flavor of science and technology of the times. Through the arc orbit, spacecraft model, etc., it reproduces the process of human understanding, exploring space and going to the universe