Yulin Lake Mountain

Jinke Yulin Hushan, developed by Jinke Group's Hunan region, is a residential landscape project with landscape design by ACA Mai Ken's fourth division and interior design by Matrix Design. The narrative is rooted in the site's identity as the home of dragon-boat culture and the lakeside birthplace of the poet Qu Yuan, and is organised around a phoenix that, according to local lore, once descended to rest by the water and blazed with light. The design traces this image through a sequence of gestures: phoenix feathers leap into the water as a collision of tradition and modernity, in which form, colour, line and surface are continuously reshaped and reconstructed; the resting phoenix then becomes a spatial art that touches the visitor, while the feathers' poised glance lends the composition a lively, airy ease. The building mass is imagined as the tail fin of a phoenix floating on water, drawing on the angular geometry of the river bend and the swept lines of a phoenix tail so that architecture and landscape merge organically. At the entry, a recognisable gate structure derived from the tail fin extends into the front landscape and transitions naturally into the courtyard, so that every sightline carries a playful, layered view. In the forecourt, a blooming sculpture is read from multiple angles as a deconstructed, repeated and blossoming world, and surrounding planting wraps the space like layered waves, producing a quiet, enclosed landscape. The sequence ends with a coda that emphasises the cycle of beginning and ending, of return and renewal. The project uses the phoenix as a unifying motif across geometry, water and planting to deliver a lakefront residential identity that is both dramatic and composed.