Tanali,Hangzhou

Vanke Fontanelle is located in Keqiao, Shaoxing, a district with a long silk-weaving history, and sits against the Banhu Lake Park with an L-shaped waterfront embrace. Large-scale retail anchors such as Intime, Jindi Zizai Tiandi and Wanda outline a night-time commercial richness that supports the project's position at the heart of urban fashion. In a Hangzhou demonstration-zone market crowded with competing schemes, the central question was what positioning and signature IP could give the project its own soul and deliver a fashion-forward landscape launch. Looking to the other side of the world, the silk lake city of Como in Italy has followed a parallel urban path: as one of Europe's great silk centres it has supplied raw silk and fashion design to houses such as Versace, and Lake Como, framed by the Alps, is known as God's own garden. The two cities, Como and Keqiao, differ sharply in cultural background but converge on the pursuit of fashionable living, and a thousand years of the silk road link them once again through the name Fontanelle. In 1977 Gianni Versace bought Villa Fontanelle, a nineteenth-century lakeside villa in Como, and for the remaining twenty years of his life poured his own fashion sensibility into it, expressing his love of life and beauty. The project therefore borrows the atmosphere of Versace's haute-couture lake villa as the master narrative for a fashion-first residential demonstration, translating the palette, material luxe and composed theatricality of an Italian fashion villa into a contemporary Chinese garden. The scheme pairs A&N Shangyuan Landscape, Chunshan Qiushui Interior and Zhejiang Jianye Facade Consultants in an integrated delivery that carries the Fontanelle name across architecture, landscape and interior, proposing a high-end residential identity founded on silk, fashion and lakeside living.