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Located in the Central Park district of Chongqing, Dongyuan Yueyin Wanchuan is an up-market low-rise residential community developed by Dongyuan Group Southwest. Rather than building a temporary sales display garden, the developer delivered a permanent show district that doubles as the future main entrance and a courtyard landscape for the completed neighbourhood, so that visitors experience the lifestyle they will actually inhabit. The landscape comprises the main residential entry and a 6,000-square-metre courtyard enclosed by buildings, with a roughly four-metre level change between the two spaces; the courtyard itself measures 100 metres north-south by 40 metres east-west, a relatively tight envelope for a resort-grade design brief. WTD, led by Li Hui, treats the theme as "resort" within a confined footprint. Privacy is established first: at the main entry, a glass canopy wraps the site as a ceremonial screen that conceals the four-metre drop, and a second sequence of grilles and feature walls gives the arrival a layered, understated luxury. Within the courtyard, layers of cascading fountains and low white walls use the classical Chinese device of borrowed and obstructed scenery to break sightlines and add privacy before each residential lift lobby. The courtyard is then cut by intersecting straight and angled lines into smaller plates that visually elongate the narrow ground plane and give each plate a distinct programme. Stone and timber paving combine to set a warm residential tone, and a straight water spine runs from the entry through the plates, linking them without fully enclosing them so that every sitting area is within a step of moving water. Rough-textured stone blocks laid at intervals in the water replace a still mirror with gurgling, rising flow, and the lap pool is animated by arc-shaped fountains set into one edge to reinforce the resort mood. Low shrubs and flower borders along the paths, under tall sapium and celtis trees, complete a layered, shaded waterside world that delivers ceremony, privacy, function and atmosphere on a constrained site.
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