YanGo The Peninsula

Sunshine City Foshan Peninsula, designed by WTD Vesper Design, sits on a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water in the Green Island Lake area of Chancheng District, Foshan, with white egrets, broad lake views and multiple sight corridors. The show yard, completed in November 2019 after a year of design and construction, was built as a permanent landscape rather than a temporary display, integrating street-level retail, arrival reception, the sales gallery, a pool and ancillary rooms around a sunken courtyard. The original site posed a classic difficulty: a main entry vertical circulation led down to a 4,300-square-metre sunken courtyard 6.7 metres below grade (including 1.2 metres of soil cover), with two stairs down and two up to the sales-gallery roof. The master plan revolves around three extracted elements - island, water and yacht - which suit the high-end villa and large-flat-plate programme on a three-sided lakeside site. The team repeatedly asked whether the full community's figure-ground strategy could be imported into the sunken space, fusing ground and basement into one. Through successive model studies they reshaped the courtyard boundary, moved and reshaped the sales gallery, and reorganised the basement programme so that cascading water features and greenery lift the eye upward, erasing any sense of being underground. The architecture, interior and landscape were thereby merged into a single seamless environment. At the entry, a sculptural yacht-bow feature cuts through the water; its streamlined form required careful study of geometry, structure and material, finally executed in digitally moulded Tycos stone with arrayed, individually controlled water nozzles so that each water line can be tuned. The swimming pool and site-level differences were likewise resolved in layered terracing, giving the water a rich, stratified experience. Across 15,600 square metres of landscape, the project reads as a poetic lakeside residence in which above and below, inside and outside, are indistinguishable.