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There is a forest in everyone's heart. Perhaps we have never been there, but it has always been there, will always be there. The lost get lost, and those who meet will meet again.—Haruki Murakami. The design takes forest as its language, creating a genuine forest for residents and narrating a warm vision of future life. The design seeks a balance between environment and ecology, fusing architecture, landscape, and nature to play an ecological pastoral and a hymn of light and shadow within the space, conveying the harmony of coexisting with nature. The site has complex topographic variation; the design uses site conditions to convert setback green belts into green axes, linking surrounding landscape resources. Landscapes of varying elevation form a multi-dimensional, multi-layered system with the Tanzhou waterway and river channels to the north, seamlessly connecting to urban space. Dream-seeking Forest: this is a forest that awakens the warmth and future aspirations within us, where all expectations about life take root and grow. Starting with a green forest, the entrance to the secret realm opens. The road winds through ordered dense forest, where vehicles and pedestrians move through the most natural landscape space, opening the welcoming ceremony. At the end of the entrance road, layered and lively water guides the direction of vehicles. At the corner, as if beginning a jungle exploration, a deer sculpture like an elf messenger seems to tell one story after another of the forest. Lush foliage and fragrant grasses make one feel as if transformed into a flying butterfly, lost in the beauty of the woodland.
TEAM
Landscape Design: Metrostudio Tan Gongliang, Wang Qi, Robert, Cheng Huihui, Yang Yaolian, Yang Yong, Liu Shengbing, Wang Dandan, Zheng Rongjun, Liu Zhuochun, Yang Chunhua; Contractor: Guangdong Churun Ecological Construction Co., Ltd.