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Wanghai Mansion in Shenzhen's Shekou district is flanked by Peninsula City to the south, overlooking the Shenzhen Bay Bridge to the east, Shekou Fishing Port to the west, and a steep, restored vegetated rock slope to the north. The site is narrow: ground floor holds retail, floors two to five are parking, and three residential towers sit on a sixth-floor garden above Wanghai Road. The landscape operates at two levels: the ground-floor commercial street and the sixth-floor rooftop garden. Inspired by ocean waves and Shenzhen Bay's distinctive midsummer night, the design unfolds around the Ocean Tranquil concept. The ground-floor commercial street uses modern diagonal paving to simulate wave motion, giving the narrow strip a romantic character. The residential garage entrance passes through enormous structural columns and a winding driveway; the design turns liability into feature by wrapping columns in round stainless-steel tubes to form a columned entrance, paired with cascading water and star-lit feature walls. The sixth-floor rooftop continues wave paving but leans toward resort atmosphere and human scale. A sea-view swimming pool sits on the fifth-floor parking slab, raised half a level; the design uses the side elevation for changing rooms and crowns the pool with a light landscape pavilion as the visual center. To the east, the pool frames the Shenzhen Bay Bridge; to the north, it reflects an ecological grass slope, forming a Peach Blossom Spring within the city. The 20,000-square-meter landscape was led by Jerome Lee and Huang Xiaofeng for Shenzhen Fengye Real Estate.