Nanchang OCT Vanke Century Waterfront Tingan

Ting'an at OCT Vanke Century Waterfront sits on the shore of Xiang Lake in Xihu District, Nanchang, completed in 2022 and developed by OCT Nanchang and Jiangxi Vanke, with a client team including Zhu Shu, Xiong Shuiping, Guo Long, Tong Tao, Chang Yumeng, Li Huile, Liu Zhiting and Fan Fanfan; landscape architecture is by BOX Box Practice, facade consulting by Zhejiang Zhongnan Curtain Wall's Li Pan team, and contractor Hangzhou Tianqin Landscape. The project is a "mountain-sea demonstration zone" that uses the island - yu - as its organising figure, drawing on Nanchang's thousand-year culture and the resort DNA of the larger cultural-tourism city. The front field opens horizontally like a handscroll, separating the noisy city from the quiet court. The Valley Island layers pools, rocks and planting into a modern, locally rooted poetic landscape. The Jade Island is a hotel-style pool clubhouse that fuses imagined mountain and forest through a staggered, interlocking, layered composition whose soft-sand render and modular grid make the abstract "mountain" physically present. A Hidden Corridor carries mist and dappled light between sand-like planted mounds. The Mountain Island, a dense-wood journey inspired by Bada Shanren's former residence, places the Shuju pavilion within framed views, using quiet and nature instead of spectacle. The An Island is a wabi-sabi courtyard where the simplest, most asymmetric planting and materials leave long memories between morning and evening. The Dream Island introduces a new-generation commercial street of immersive, trendy installations and tucked-away woodland rest spots. Together the islands stage a resort-like everyday life that restores the true feeling of holiday in the city.