Eco Plane, one of ten gardens designed as part of World University Park at the 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Expo, was designed by a China Lab team during a week-long workshop held in Xi'an in the winter of 2010.

Organized by Ma Qingyun, dean of the School of Architecture at USC, and curated by Paul Tang, director of USC ACC, Creative Nature was a week-long international design workshop held in Xi'an in January of 2010. Ten international universities came together to each design a garden as part of the 2011 Xi'an World Horticultural Expo.

China Lab's Eco Plane was conceived as a tilted habitable platform built onto the waterside site that slipped into the water and wetland garden. By exaggerating the ecological tension at this edge condition, the Eco Plane provides a territory that supports and encourages maximum biodiversity. This man-made wetland also monitors and reveals the effects of the subtle fluctuations in the water level. This evolving aqua-terrestrial landscape will, over time, make visible to its vistors an ecological history of the site and provide them with an always-changing experience.