YangShuo Regional Tourism Plan (2011)

Project Data
 
Site Area:   45.000.000m2
Location:   Guangxi, China
Land Use:   Tourism, Protected Nature
Features:   Interconnected Landscape and Agriculture Park with iconic resort facilities
Scope:  Regional Development Master Plan
Status:   Planning
 
 
Project Summary
 
In a valley, roughly 20km long and about 2km wide, Yangshuo seeks to develop a new high-end tourism area situated right in the middle of the famous world-heritage landscape of the Yangshuo caster mountains.

The Regional Development Plan focused on strategic placement and confinement of new tourism facilities (Hotel Resorts) which offer a variety of different encounters with the surrounding landscape, act as modern icons while being developed from traditional materials, typologies and motives.
Binding together the entire development is the 45km2 Landscape and Agriculture Park integrating existing farmland, local production and villages with new activities, destinations and landmarks to become a continuous carpet of changing vegetation, topography and spatial character.

While protecting the entire surrounding caster mountain area, the design suggested to use two former quarries as a basis for iconic resorts built into isolated road-side mountains to act as an iconic Yangshuo gateway along the new national road.

The national road itself has been developed as an extended system built around the existing boulevard trees.