Beijing ya ju LeFuChun on

A natural mountain forest, a life of easy forgetfulness, a home of spiritual strength: Agile Fuchun Shanshu in Mentougou, west of Beijing, is addressed to a specific community that lives beside the mountains and is bound by shared values. In a post-material age, these residents pursue meaning and sensation, their self-awareness awakening and traditional desires receding, and they long for a return to simplicity and nature. As one member of that community, the landscape team, Aoya Beijing Group Nine, sought a quietly composed answer. The project sits on the West Chang'an Avenue extension in Yongding Town, thirty kilometers by road from Tiananmen, the closest mountain-forest oasis to the city center, within the West Hills cultural and historic landscape belt where the ancient Wansang section of the Jingxi passage, old temple ruins and the Wufo Temple gate tower still survive. Following Kerry Hill's dictum that every design should be tailored to its context and site, the team worked from the site itself, capturing fixed mountain-view frames and the continuous sequence of scenes that change as one walks. Imagery drawn from old walls, mountain stone, shallow shoals, temple ruins and woodland tea houses is reinterpreted in a plain, minimal language as a home hidden in the hills, where visitors can live at an unhurried pace. The design follows the terrain and draws on site memory, choosing the best mountain sightlines and strengthening spatial experience. At arrival, a logo feature stone leans forward in a welcoming gesture, and a curved rubble wall beside it answers the old wall already on site, integrating the project with its surroundings. The result is a landscape that lets residents feel the mountain setting rather than stage it, an unassuming home for a community that has chosen to live close to nature.