Shaoxing Lake Po Yin Xiu Fu

The Hupo Yinsifu residence in Shaoxing is a landscape designed around the idea of a lakeside imagination, extending a design-led natural-art and healing aesthetic on the shores of Mirror Lake. Using a quiet, Eastern-modern brushstroke, the project collects the primary colours of nature into a stilled painting, half nature, half sentiment. The entry, Yinsifu Gate Court, treats concealment as a way of symbiosis with nature: after worldly sophistication, one encounters a pure mental dwelling. The approach uses small boat, arch bridge, and water stillness to make visitors feel immersed in nature, listening to thin water and letting thoughts settle as views change. Black-hole stone, schist, and tiles are combined so that looking through a doorway reveals a miniature landscape: small bridge, flowing water, courtyard grass, and stacked tiles touched by light, quietly collected and sensed. The second zone, Amber-coloured Forest Corridor, extends the theme: walking through the scented corridor, breeze and sunlight slow time, and the blue sky, white clouds, green forest, and reflections in water bring back longing for living. Framed views and shadow compositions turn every pause into meditation, and the simple opening of a door releases the distance and breadth of nature. The third zone, the Hidden Shore, is a waterside terrace for sitting and watching sky and cloud at dawn and dusk, shedding city fatigue. Ripples and soft grasses brush the bank; an infinity water feature merges with the natural lake, and sofas on the shore invite an immersive resort stillness. Light reflects softly from wood veneer and rough schist, and the layered greens of nature let visitors empty their minds and return to simplicity. At 4,172 square metres and completed in May 2022, the project uses boat, arch bridge, water town, green forest, stone, tile, and planting to converse with Mirror Lake and Shaoxing's humanistic art, pursuing a quiet, healing natural room in the modern city.