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Baoyi Guanyun Kunyue City sits at the foot of Jingshan in Hangzhou, in a green valley hidden from the city, with landscape architecture by Andao Design's Shanghai office led by Chen Xiaochun, Zhong Qiaoji, Xia Sheng, Yang Jinhua and Ma Guochao. The site is chosen on distinctive natural terrain, wrapped in green like a carpet, romantic, open and faintly wild, bringing to Hangzhou a residence that grows out of a cedar forest. Whether read as continuously growing organic architecture or as a literati ideal mountain dwelling, Jingshan may become a lifestyle destination for this era or the next: held in nature, gazing at mountains and water, tea and chan, and nurturing the rural delight that truly needs to be felt in the heart. The future Jingshan wellness resort town is intended not only as a vessel for natural growth but as a shared, secret yet wild-luxurious back garden for Hangzhou. Along the Chengxi Science and Innovation Corridor, in Lin'an District, the project draws on 1,200 mu of native land, threading the tea terraces of Longwu through the entire precinct to create a new suburban aesthetic landmark. The design organizes itself through four attitudes. Positive attitude: place personal pleasure in the quiet mountain forest, swing through the valleys and enter the tea gardens; light, zen, lush groves and the scent of tea reveal spiritual touches in every plant, honoring local rustic beauty and long history. Ecology: existing trees and vegetation are carefully preserved, and irises, agapanthus, red maples, cedar forest, miscanthus and tea are added to create a sustainable, ecological, exquisitely planted green baseline. Original and organic: mountains stand still while water winds in protean form; from the philosophy of landscape the team writes a cedar dwelling that breaks the boundary between healing and relaxation, reshaping local identity through a natural, forestry vocabulary into a mountain residence worth seeing, wandering and walking, with a wild-luxury temperament. Health and vitality: three sides of mountains and an open east frame a field at the center, so the whole town sits like a naturally grown settlement that wraps mountains and water, an urban back garden for calming anxiety. Buildings embed into the hillside along ridge lines, and the reception hall, as the project's display and cultural-social space, fuses interior and exterior and opens the best view toward the forest. The 52,602-square-meter landscape, designed in 2021, is part of a future wellness town integrating tourism, culture, industry, eldercare and greater health, and Andao is simultaneously protecting and developing the bamboo culture, tea-chan culture and historic architecture of Gaohong Ancient Village to support Lin'an Jingshan as a new rural-community model for common prosperity.