Tianfu Core City

In the Tianfu New Area south of Chengdu, a red, undulating ring building embraces a green park: the Ring of Wisdom, cultural landmark of Unisplendour Tianfu Core City, developed by Unisplendour Haokuo as a smart industrial-city operator. 15,218 red aluminum panels form a flowing ring with no end and no back, a symbol of ubiquitous interconnection and of the open-ended evolution of intelligence, technology and a better life. The masterplan pursues the vision of a park within technology, a production-life-ecology new city led by industry and empowered by the economy. The display area contains both the Unisplendour technology exhibition center and the project reception center, and WTD's landscape scope covers the display-center portion. Because the main building was already constructed and the landscape circulation and layout largely fixed, the team had to re-think the relation between landscape and architecture while tying landscape to the site's spirit and function. The highly individual red building is itself sufficiently iconic and artistic that the landscape responds rather than competes: minimal, artful design with tech-forward, future-facing elements seeks a balance between clutter and monotony. At the same time, because this is a residential display area, the landscape must project the infinite possibility of future daily life, so that within the residential sequences a warmer, more refined language presents varied living scenes and lets visitors experience the smart city as a park within technology. The eye-catching Ring of Wisdom needs no separate spirit monument; the main design move is to echo and highlight the building. Seen from Tianfu Avenue, the first facade frames the ring rather than adds to it, and the landscape is calibrated to a future both built for tomorrow and inhabited today.