Chongqing ILongforl · Jia Tianxia

Longfor Jia Tianxia in Chongqing is a 49,000-square-meter landscape by Blue Mood International Design Institute One, developed by Chongqing Longfor in Longzhouwan, Banan District, and built by Jisheng and Zhuoyan Landscape. Chongqing, more than seventy percent mountain, is known beyond its spicy streetlife as a mountain-city of airy, reclusive possibility, and the project's design intent is to look toward the mountain from the city and fashion a different kind of mountain dwelling. Mountain dwelling is presented not as escape but as poetic creation, drawing on the classical yearnings for chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge, the empty mountain where only voices are heard, and the summit that sees all hills small. The site's advantages are used as a medium to build three artistic living clusters: Mountain Stream and Leaping Fish, Chasing Dreams on Cloud Steps, and Mountain Forest Retreat. The first cluster, Mountain Stream and Leaping Fish, draws on the Classic of Poetry's ode to fine fish and the festive banquet between host and guest: fish forms and fish patterns transform the site, and a leaping fish greets residents at homecoming, continuing urban memory while expressing ritual and natural hope. A refined fish sculpture marks the entry, and beyond the porch a pool of koi and a fish-leaping-the-dragon-gate image deliver the welcome. The lanes take freedom and joy as their source, extracting fish-pattern motifs for feature walls and ground paving, while Chinese tallow trees narrate light and shadow in a quiet, ethereal lane. The second cluster, Chasing Dreams on Cloud Steps, is inspired by clouds in a sky city, building a multi-generational, composite-experience quality group that treats the designer as a scene director. Moving from five layers to five dimensions, the design extracts humanism, refined building, health, fusion and ecology, and emphasizes fusion that brings family and neighbors closer. The mountain-city entry borrows the mountain-gate concept to open the space, welcoming people with water; the feature wall, layered from cloud and mountain, forms a rhythmic, lively foreground. A central living room, like a small boat floating on an oasis, sits beside a mirror pool for tea, chess, reading, guests and film, carrying a holiday mood. The children's zone uses a sky-blue palette and small-space, multi-fun experiences, while the lawn edge steps back to feel approachable, and a refined running track invites daily exercise. The third cluster, Mountain Forest Retreat, condenses a thousand images into one garden, taking mountain ranges as ground and earth-art textures to form a breathable forest community. The overall layout is one axis, three zones and five scenes, from which five neighborhood-time themes derive. The waterside court references Along the River During the Qingming Festival, clustering an understory living room, a waterside living room and a gathering living room around a pool. The children's play follows the plot of The Wizard of Oz, with adventure bridges, an emerald castle, a tunnel of time and animal interactions zoned by age from one to twelve. An encircling road defines a green-boat sun lawn, and each high-rise courtyard centers on a large fragrant osmanthus, the celestial cassia that symbolizes honor and happiness. After more than three years of construction under the belief that life can be more beautiful, the three plots carry the traces of daily life and open perception, connection and an ideal mountain home.