Day obsidian

Longfor Tianyao in Guiyang sits in Guanshanhu District, along a major city road with mature transport, cultural, educational, and everyday amenities. The development includes a 60,000-square-metre self-operated shopping centre that houses Guiyang's first 3,000-square-metre esports arena, and the landscape takes esports as its starting point for imagining future domestic life. Guizhou's karst peak forests, ancient and surreal, suggested a future of fractured land, floating islands, and wandering oases, and the design deliberately rejects the dystopian tone of most science-fiction imagery in favour of a real, lived-in oasis. Three conceptual threads organize the work: floating, particles, and plants. A half-open landscape constructs a floating green island in sculptural language, its urban edge open and legible, signaling the public nature of a future commercial quarter. A huge white island, like a future aircraft, supports scenes of future daily life, its top covered in green sedum; as a sculptural device it divides plaza from garden while keeping visual transparency and softening site boundaries. Winding linear flowerbeds, undulating terrain, and simple greenery invite a slow stroll, the curves dynamically drawing the eye through the forecourt. Particle fragments, abstracted from the pixel blocks of early video games and rendered in mirrored metal, reflect sky, water, greenery, and white walls, inviting visitors to think about the relation between self and world; assembled human figures in fragmented form add narrative presence. The future garden platform continues the streamline language and is planted with tree ferns, royal ferns, and sword ferns as living fossils, alongside cycads, needle palms, bird-of-paradise, and bromeliads that lend a science-fiction feel, as if the dominant plants of an ancient earth had returned. Across a 5,500-square-metre landscape, the project offers one interpretation of how esports and residential life might coexist, treating the future not as a threat but as a lush, walkable, green oasis.