Longhu · Fuxian Lake

Longfor Fuxian Lake Xingyuhai is a 15,000-square-metre landscape project completed in 2021 at Fuxian Lake in Chengjiang, Yunnan, designed by Chongqing Landlink City Landscape Planning and built by Chongqing Luohan Ecological Environment Construction, with structural engineering by Chongqing University's Architectural Design and Research Institute. The design seeks the most authentic relationship between people and nature, and takes Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa as its reference: rather than constructing an independent formal system, the architecture and landscape should grow with the environment so that buildings and natural elements interweave into a continuous, friendly dialogue. The site was originally ecologically fragile, with rocky desertification, polluted drainage channels, unruly vegetation and exposed stone, and the design prioritises protection of the existing environment, water resources and biodiversity while repairing the local ecology. Time-lapse documentation shows the site transforming over one month, six months and one year, returning to a Monet-like river scene under soft wind and sun, with a blue sailboat drifting on the lake. The design language is built around mottled light: light through trees on grass, rings of sun on the ground, a single tree framing sky and earth, its roots drawing from the soil and its branches receiving the sky. Landscape galleries extend the visual experience, blurring inside and outside so that walking becomes a continuous conversation with nature. Rest spaces are arranged as outdoor living rooms: a book and a tea by a window, a small courtyard where one can lie down anywhere, and a palette of timber, branches and white walls that gives a rustic, unpretentious material dialogue. The whole project argues for a "forest life" attitude, a return to the most natural and pure way of living, where by Fuxian Lake one can dream inside a breathing forest and feel the sweetness of the air under the stars. The project comprises show flats together with the repair and re-vegetation of the Baxiangou gully.