DONGFANGTIANYUE

Jinke Dongfang Tianyue sits at the junction of Xihang Road and Yingbin Road in the Anshun Development Zone, Guizhou, a city known as the "hometown of Chinese waterfalls" for its dramatic karst topography and Huangguoshu. The client is Chongqing Jinke / Anshun Jinke Aowei Real Estate, project manager is Peng Han, the landscape is by Zhilan Landscape and the contractor is Chongqing Kaelceen Garden. The design translates the region's terraces, caves and star-trajectories into a rounded, Möbius-like formal language of curves, layering a narrative of secret-place exploration across the site. The outer edge presents a "tidal flat" in modern curves, tall ginkgo trees set against the city road, and a gilded stainless-steel feature wall at the corner that already reads as theatrical before visitors enter. The main portal is parametrically designed, its numbered panels fitted on site so that under starlight they take on the soft sheen of silk. An arcaded corridor doubles back on itself - one side in chenxiang beige stone, the other in glazing that reveals the rear garden - until it opens into a front court of nested circles, perforated aluminium panels bent into static waves, and a single sculptural pine against a planted wall. The inner atrium continues the rounded language, its glass wall reflecting mountains and its water paving marked by paths of stepping stones drawn from the trajectories of stars, as if a Miao maiden's silver earrings were trembling above a shallow pool. Beyond, a small-scale Huangguoshu waterfall flows between stone walls, and swallows rest on a small sculptural detail before the path leads through grey-white gravel into a quiet, lush deep court. The project links city and nature through a looping, timeless landscape that lets visitors experience past and future together in the present.