Spring moon brocade cottage

Chunyue Jinlu is located in Yubei District, Chongqing, surrounded by established residential neighbourhoods on a long, narrow site with pronounced elevation change. Faced with these conditions, the design team set out to produce a landscape that would differentiate itself from the market, creating an art-immersive experience of dramatic tension within a space where nature and art coexist, and presenting a refined contemporary aesthetic. The project name, spring flowers and autumn moon, with the hearth fire inside the lu, draws on the classical line of spring flowers, autumn moon, summer cool and winter snow, and uses the journey of life and the collection of life as the organising thread, recomposing stone, wood, flower, moon and planting into an art encounter in which time stands still. The stone sequence crosses time and light as a journey through a natural history museum: the welcoming space combines stone with a designed bar, clean walls interlock with recumbent stones, and the hard, angular masses carry traces of age, casting fragmented coloured light under soft illumination. As the classical line has it, time is silent and only stone speaks, and here the stones are the handiwork of nature itself. The flower-and-wood sequence leads down a hidden path into a forest-oxygen sanctuary where spring breeze returns and all things grow; sunlight filters through the trees, branches stir in the breeze, dappled light moves across the walls, and a silver mist of moonlight falls across the ground. As wind rises and night deepens, moonlight passes through the canopy and light moves; beneath the hazy sky, tree shadow keeps company with the moon, and standing in the flower wood one sees the moon as if displayed in a showcase. The collected moon, the wind in the treetops and the flower held in hand are nature placed inside a shop window, so that the window contains the wind and flowers of a quiet, cultured life.