Chongqing Kaisa Xiaoan Yunqi

Kaisa Xiao'an Yunqi in Chongqing is a three-dimensional, polar-themed children's activity community designed by GVL Yijing International Design Group's Chongqing office, transforming Chongqing - the so-called "furnace city" - into an imagined Arctic. Taking cues from Arctic glaciers, the blue-dominated play zone uses viewing boardwalks, interactive feature walls, sand pits, climbing nets and slides to create a memorable child-scale landscape. Curved white walls wind inward like an ice plain, while a tall, upright spirit banner reaches toward the sky. Floating ice forms rest on the water, leading to a tall white island shaded by trees. Glacial terrain undulates, streams meander, and children hop across the white expanse. White pergolas derived from ice crystals rest lightly among the high-low paths like igloos, offering shade and rest. A single red ribbon winds through the site, adding warm, vivid colour and linking the whole play loop; running within it, children can survey the surrounding park. Sparse dawn-redwood groves add texture and natural presence. During construction, the Yijing team produced a custom visualisation manual to coordinate drawing reviews, construction disclosure, plant selection, material samples, site supervision and post-occupancy reflection, resolving issues such as grade matching between the river embankment and the play platform, cut-and-fill costs, and panel structural thickness. Completed in December 2020 over an 18,000-square-metre site, the project is intended as a gift from the Arctic - a reminder that life grows vividly even in the most extreme places, and that the longing for the poles is ultimately a longing to return to pure, simple nature.