Lengend Park

Vanke Park Legend in Chengdu occupies a privileged site within Tianfu New Area, the core of the city's one-city-six-districts structure, immediately adjacent to the Luxi Ecological Park. The demonstration district sits on land formerly reserved for a kindergarten and is built on a park-built green buffer that will become the first threshold of the future community's homecoming sequence. The landscape, by WISTO Design with a team led by Li Hui, Zhang Li, Tang Zhiyang, Zhao Dongge, Shen Mengru and Guo Yan, seeks an organic, near-nature atmosphere that contrasts the surrounding city and restores a felt sense of return. The design grows from a longing to recover origins, to find a quiet patch of nature within the noise, and, drawing on Luxi's established natural resources, aims to surpass them with a more modern, artistic and nature-affiliated habitation. The forecourt guide section combines clean, pure space with a dynamic wheat-wave installation: the road moves between undulating panels of wheat-like form, producing multi-dimensional sightlines while making wind itself visible, and the wheat waves become a landscape mnemonic that awakens emotional memory and strengthens arrival. The sales gallery atrium transitions from frosted to mirrored glass, so that a clear valley-of-wind scene of wheat waves, architecture, city and people is reflected at the center of the feature wall, and visitor, view and mirrored self enter into a strange, interactive conversation. The rear garden turns toward comfort: a flying bridge ties together an understory meeting space wrapped in flower borders and a participatory resting space beneath a lotus-leaf canopy, crossing undulating terrain and lawn. While the forecourt's purity and play slow the visitor, the rear garden's seclusion invites lingering. The whole design relies on biomimetic natural gestures, and the lotus-leaf canopy tilts to echo the natural growth of lotus leaves and to add motion and novelty; the team ran rigorous structural calculations to solve the mechanical consequences of that tilt. Open space, swaying hammocks, hills, still water, wheat waves, greenery and the lotus canopy together form a quiet home within the bustling city. The 13,000-square-meter landscape was designed in 2018 and completed in 2019 in Tianfu New Area, Chengdu.