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Gemdale Qiuxueli is located in the centre of Haiyan County, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, bordering Hangzhou Bay to the east, Haining to the southwest and Pinghu and Xiuzhou to the north, roughly thirty kilometres from Jiaxing. The area benefits from convenient transport, rich educational and commercial amenities, and abundant green and water resources. The design takes the sea as its source and selects the ocean wave as the key motif, abstracting the form of waves into linear language and a flowing spatial framework that becomes the soul of the landscape, producing a fashionable, modern, artistic and relaxed high-quality community. Following Gemdale's Greenline series philosophy of natural, simple good living, the project presents itself as an urban natural ark, neighbour to the sea, sharing in the vigour of coast and nature. Space is used to deliver enjoyment, and pleasure accompanies growth; wave and starlight are extracted as conceptual elements to blend natural beauty with urban life and to define a refined, ritualised, nature-close residential culture. The ritualised homecoming sequence begins at the main entry, which the landscape treats as the project's principal welcoming space, offering residents returning from the busy city a first impression that clears the noise and restores calm. The entry gate and feature wall interpret the wave motif into abstract elements; modern lines, stone, aluminium panels and art sculpture together project an artistic, fashionable character, while layered spatial detail and interlocking straight lines build a geometric beauty that transcends the everyday. The result is a community landscape in which the heartbeat of the sea becomes the organising principle of the street, the entry court and the private homecoming path.