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Dongyuan Jiuzhang Fu in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, is a residential landscape designed by WTD Design for client Zunyi Dongyuan Lihe Real Estate Development. Zunyi is one of China's first national historic and cultural cities, where mountain, water, and humanist traditions coexist. The project sits in the Xinpu New District, near the Xinpu Avenue expressway and the under-construction Xinnan trunk road, with good access from a dense road network. The display area occupies the eastern side of the larger residential compound; its new-Chinese-style architecture draws on the upturned eaves of ancient buildings and the atmosphere of the Forbidden City. The building mass is shaped like the Chinese character zhi, and the landscape takes the concept between as its theme, expressing a dwelling poised between tradition and modernity, city and nature. The 17,425-square-meter site has a dramatic 20.5-meter elevation change from the main entrance at the lowest point rising toward the northwest, which naturally supports a layered courtyard composition. Within a 140-meter by 126-meter footprint, the design divides the space into themed zones, including the main entrance, stacked courtyards, water courtyard, villa area, and children's dream space, forming a roughly 200-meter arrival walk. The design absorbs the essence of classical Chinese gardens through borrowed scenery and framed views, using modern techniques and materials. Water is the soul of the composition, expressed in different forms to connect spaces and merge architecture with landscape. The central, enclosed site introduces Zunyi's distinctive natural landscape, drawing on the Shuanghe Cave in Suiyang, known as China's longest cave, and reinterpreting karst gorge scenery through contemporary artistic means. The entrance evokes an aristocratic ancestral mansion, with two carefully selected black pines flanking the approach and a folding screen softening the view. The stacked-courtyard zone uses layered stone and water to suggest karst waterfalls and deep pools, while the route is guided through long corridors rather than directly through the mountain-and-water scene. The water courtyard is kept open and transparent to avoid blocking the building, dominated by a large dark mirror pool, a dramatically shaped specimen tree rising from the water, and surrounding rocks and planting. The second-floor link connects the sales gallery to high-rise show flats, a children's area, and villa show flats, using symmetry, borrowed glimpses, and still and moving water to create relaxed, lifestyle-oriented spaces. The result is a three-dimensional landscape painting that fuses classical Chinese garden craft with the cultural identity of Zunyi.