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China Merchants Science and Innovation Plaza Phase One is located in the core area of Yazhou Bay in Sanya, within the Deep Sea Science and Technology City, and is the first delivered project of an industrial park complex themed around marine science and technology and life sciences. The design is conceived as an oxygen sea valley, intended to provide a diversified working environment for high-tech enterprises and office staff engaged in innovation. Through a minimal, angular design language and an open, shared landscape layout, the park is delivered as a new-era workplace campus combining fashionable technology, shared amenities and green ecology. The roughly 800-square-metre street-front entry plaza doubles as a venue for corporate events and the main pedestrian route; the Science City logo is rendered as a landmark sculptural object that supports the building's overall presence and wayfinding. Irregular tree pits simulate rolling waves, creating varied height that softens the openness of the plaza, while a sequenced paving pattern both guides movement and carries a tech-forward character. The reception-area negotiation zone combines a resting platform with a mirror pool to make a quiet outdoor meeting space; landscape stones and a dragonfly sculpture punctuate the water and act as visual focal points, giving the space a sparse, comfortable feel that is at once a viewing point and a reception area. The central landscape belt is the park's main activity and leisure heart, composed of lawns and groves that give employees a place to pause, meet and recover during the working day. The whole park is organised as a flexible, shared, green campus in which the industrial program of deep-sea and life-science research is framed by a tropical, sea-valley landscape.