Golden Riverside Phase II Kick-off Area

landscape as retreat to escape from hubbub This is NOT another landscape demo for sale purpose, but a permanent implementation as a part of this residential landscape along riverside. “There could be a slower and simpler lifestyle in landscape fashion” Our design intent is based on the fact that people are livingunder such hustling and bustling in almost every single city of China, wherethings go fast and get complicated easily, where people feel exhausted frequently. Started with that thinking, for this project, we decided to deliver a landscapewith distinctive experience and appearance in contrast to the world outside ofthe community. We also believe landscape could be received by people not justvisually but also psychologically, in a way that people can feel retreated and relaxed backhome. Instead of being stuffed with too many picturesque decorative features,the landscape is conceived to make everything simple and slow for people andembrace them to escape the outside chaos. The singularity of landscape settles a refreshed mindset Then how do we do it? There were 3 things we looked into: easy circulation, simplified landscape color palette and flexible landscape programs. There won’t be any unnecessary detourbefore people get home. So, a straightforward loop connecting all residentialtowers sets up the basic framework of space. For color palette/texture, green and concrete white dominates theoverall landscape. Green is probably the most relaxing color and white makespeople feel clean and pure. Other than that, few colors are used. Lastly, we believe social is the key in acommunity environment and people love talking to each other and even love venting by him/herself in certain corner. Therefore, the design intended to reserve as much space as possible for people gathering, activities rather than brushing a trunk of chaotic vegetation，leaving little space for people. Space - Five Characters The mirror-like pool captures what’s high above and give a moment of calm-down for people immediately after they step into the community. Three reinforced glass fiber sculptures appear to be floating on the water while the dark tiles of slate at bottom of pool creates a reflective background. The garden is shaped by 5 spherical planting beds, whichintegrated with mist and Rhododendron. The circular paths intend to slow downthe pace of walk and to grab people into all these moments surrounded-contemplation, art, aro The community common is inspired by the local history - the city of Foshan was oneof four cities for “Gather” in hundreds years ago. A city of “Gather” means that it was a regional economic hub for trading and business back to old days in China. We took that concept and develop 4 arc-bench made from white washedconcrete gavel. They face to each other so that in a way it encourages socialand interaction between neighbors just like hundreds of years ago the trade andbusiness took place. It’s also flexible enough to accommodate all different programs and activities in community scale. The walkway navigates the quickest route to each 3 residential towers. It’s covered bya 4m high single-side cantilever structure with white aluminum panel coated. The structure not only allows 360 panoramas to the central garden but also mitigate the visual pressure from the heavy structure. The gateway anchorsan overflow water table in the center, which encompasses a generous drop-off infront of the entrance. Aligned with the centerline of entrance space, the waterfeature also leads your view towards the garden inside through a translucentstainless steel screen, which introduces the garden with a mysterious mask. Due to the simplicity and singularity of this landscape characters, we were so serious about material selections including both hardscape texture and plantingpalette. There are 3 categories for our material selection: White series: washed concrete gravel+ aluminum panel+ reinforced glass fiber (these are materials could be in monolithic state so that we could have very few of joints and connections) Green series:The planting selection is key to the project. We chose Rain Lily,Rhododendron, and Ivy as they are perfect to deliver singularity of a carpet-like ground. Reflective material: polished Stainless Steel captures all things surrounded and give a sense of liveness. It also establishes interactions and reactions among people. Last but not least… Thanks for this collaborative effort by the client,construction team. It took us more than a year from the very first sketch to the last sweep on the site. There were lot more interesting ideas/ techniques emerged during this process, to explore what else could landscape do for human and maybe one of the answers is right here at Vanke Golden Riverside Phase I. Project Credits: Name: Vanke Golden Riverside Phase II Kick-off Area Type: residential landscape Location: Shunde New District, Foshan, Guangdong Size: 4. 7 ha. in overall w/ 0. 4 ha. kick-off area