China Resources Dalian Ruifu Exhibition Center

China Resources Land's Ruifu residence sits in the heart of Dalian's High-tech Zone, east of Xinghai Bridge, on the first-line waterfront of Lingshui Bay, with views over Heishijiao Bay, Jianshan, Rendao Mountain, Xijianshan Park, Heishijiao Park, and the cliff line. AECOM's design theme is enjoying modern luxury courtyards and experiencing natural quiet beauty, working across spatial composition, seasonal landscape, human experience, and green ecology to bind the development to its setting. The design respects the site's coastal character and draws on local shoreline landforms, using the chain of rock, sea, and cliff as the through-line. Five scenes organize the sequence: Moon-Hidden Porch, Glittering Mirror, Emerald Wild Court, West-Fragrant Forest, and Plain-Shadow Flower Path, leading visitors from city scale into the layered courtyard of a private island of luxury. The Moon-Hidden Porch uses a shallow water run over a single character, Rui, carved in Zhu Yunming's cursive calligraphy, set into felt-like black stone and accompanied by three art boulders for seating. The Glittering Mirror combines an L-shaped framing porch with cascading water, and a streamlined boat-like sculpture on a large rough reef adds a restrained ritual weight. The central axis is lined with ginkgo trees, both ceremonial and shaded, shifting from green in summer to gold in autumn; light-grey paving, medium-grey low walls, and bronze light boxes establish a calm, restrained character. Wooden decks, semi-private seating, a porch bar, and steps to the sunken court branch off the axis. A sunken courtyard descends 6.9 metres, its height difference dissolved into dappled tree shadow, falling water, and layered green; cascades are hidden within stacked medium-grey walls, and flexible planting blocks create viewing platforms and gathering areas. The West-Fragrant Forest is a semi-enclosed quiet grove for private conversation, while two water strips on the other side lead to the show-flat rear garden, using ash trees, open lawn, and layered planting to create a dialogue between nature, craft, and art. The result blurs indoor-outdoor boundaries and condenses the future district's landscape into a refined, ritualized, quiet preview.