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Bangtai Tianyu in Yuxi is a residential demonstration landscape on the riverside green belt of the high-speed-rail sponge new town, designed by AOBO Landscape for Sichuan Bangtai Group and completed in 2021. Yuxi is named for its jade-like clear streams, and as China's gateway hub toward South and Southeast Asia it has entered the high-speed-rail era as a new, greener garden city. The design brief is a growing park that uses water as its thread, providing an all-ages, water-friendly urban life and an energy field drawn from the stream. Straight and folded lines extracted from high-speed rail inject a modern, energetic atmosphere, while five themed scenes Departure Plaza, Shinkansen Folded Bridge, Riverside Flower Valley, Warm Garden and Waterfront Oxygen Bar replay Yuxi's past and future and bind residents emotionally to the site. The entry display doubles as a future city planning hall; clear water merges with geometric white architecture, and polished paving with linear lighting gives the building a fashionable, technological presence. An outdoor viewing deck, pixel landscape boulders and aquatic planting break the building's linearity and fuse organic nature with structure. Beyond the hall, the Folded Bridge rises over the stream with folded white railings whose speed lines come from the high-speed train; at its end, a jacaranda grove offers romantic blue against the white. A viewing boardwalk in folded lines frames a near view of Yuxi's tropical palm belt at latitude 24 degrees, a middle view of deer sunning on a green carpet, and a distant view back to the bridge. Under the jacaranda, an interactive light wall responds to touch, feeding children's curiosity and adults' childhood. Further on, under cherry trees, an open-air oxygen bar invites friends and lovers to talk in sun and breeze. The project builds a sustainable ecological park within a natural site, offering residents a life grown together with the stream.