Text description provided by the architects
The landscape for New Hope Jinlin Shangfu in Ningbo, Zhejiang, designed by Qidi Design's recovery division led by Pu Huanzhang and completed in July 2019 on 5,416 square metres, frames a sales demonstration area as a space-ship journey through a sea of stars. The project is conceived as a science hall for an idealised life, an art gallery of urban living and a showcase of the developer's philosophy. The design searches for a cultural language matching the project's temperament: modern and refined, pure yet rich, with the sea of stars as its guiding image. Drawing, deconstructing and recombining elements, Qidi builds a purely artistic atmosphere, introducing a spaceship-like form that threads through a galactic time tunnel. Its avant-garde, flowing silhouette and bright points of starlight make a white wonderland that gives the city a luminous edge and invites every passer-by to investigate. Still water, springs, crystals and lighting compose a shimmering scene where reflections in dark mirror surfaces read like a rainbow galaxy, blurring the boundary between reality and illusion. The project deliberately breaks down divisions between city and nature, time and space, creating a vital, suggestive perceptual space with forward-looking thinking. Project details are limited in the source material.