Ningbo Jiang Haofu (south)

Jianghao Mansion South District is on the Fenghua River in the Changfeng waterfront residential district of Ningbo's "three rivers and six banks", the first completed project of the Jiangshan Wanli series outside the Yinzhou Park area, developed with the expectation of the series' signature restrained, refined and comfortable landscape. The landscape is by Hanxiang Landscape, led by Lu Yinyi with a team including Liu Yanjun, Liu Jing, Xu Bei, Chen Weijie, Peng Shuhua, Bu Yalong, Huang Xincheng, Quan Xinyue, Cai Jinjue, Huang Cunyou, Guo Hao, Hua Ziyu, Cai Qing and Ruan Yuting. Beneath the rich commercial programme of the wider site - experience retail, riverside restaurants, an urban sky pet park and an aerial yoga studio - the residential landscape deliberately turns inward, pursuing a de-styled, low-key luxury that infuses nature through art so that it does not date with fashion. Against the crisp modern architecture, hard and soft landscape are drawn in flowing curves to soften the mass, and furnished for lingering. The design theme is an "art living room" that expresses the philosophy of neither hurrying nor lingering, neither restraining nor over-indulging. The south district uses a double-axis promenade: from the gatehouse, one sees the Art Court and the Fresh Court as a quiet-active pair. The entrance pairs steps with a water stair, framing ginkgo and sculpted podocarpus with sliced Japanese maples and a clustered tallow canopy. The Fresh Court is the community's first garden; because landscape was involved early, the building wall was moved three metres outward, and a sculpture, water feature, sun lawn, pergola and light corridor form a civic living room, with clustered tallow setting the skyline and flowering crabapples as the focal point on raised ground. The artist-cast work "Entwine", made in Taiwan for the site, stands at its heart. The Art Court beyond is a quiet scroll of North American red maples against clean walls, sculptures and a light corridor, with two Giacometti-inspired bronze figures "Spinning Feather" and "Encounter" contrasting rough cast bronze against polished planting. The Melody Square opens onto a sun lawn ringed by tallow groves and summer-long crape myrtles, with curving pergolas and flower-pattern paving. The Pixel Garden continues the myrtle westward with linear water, ordered zelkova and bright azaleas and perennials, offering a seasonally themed quiet retreat.