Chongqing vanke merchants ideal city stars

Vanke China Merchants Ideal City, Xingxing plot, in Shapingba, Chongqing, is the first delivered quarter of a large new community on the city's western growth axis, set on flat ground between mountain ranges and permeated by a Y-shaped urban green corridor. The master plan layers an industrial new town, urban parks, rail transit, commerce and education, and reserves six pocket corner parks for neighborhood commerce, sport, exchange and leisure. Across eight land parcels, the development is themed around eight ideal states, from rising clouds to distant reach; the Xingxing plot is the first delivered piece, organized by a forest loop plus pocket-garden system. The healing-forest front court is planted with valuable tallow trees that give year-round green, and a folded-line promenade offers auditory and visual pleasure, becoming a children's botanical garden, a quiet corner for commuters and a warm parent-child setting. A double-layer composite center repurposes the basement exit, ventilation shafts and civil-defense passages that were once hidden by greenery into a mixed-use community hub: a sunken basketball court under a landscape canopy forms cantilevered bleachers, and bold color blocks of bright orange and Klein blue give the play zone an energetic personality. The pocket park is Vanke's Starlight Playground, a gift box folded toward the future, organized around children as the core of a three-tier space system that draws the neighborhood together with surprises and unknowns. At the entrance, grade differences are turned into landscape: walking through a dense tallow grove is meant as a natural rite, and a light-vacation arrival route strings together every detail of the community, so that returning home begins as a journey. One building, one garden eases the anonymity of the blocks, and the pocket park recovers neighborhood warmth. The project is designed by Antao Design's third landscape division, covers 26,566 square meters, and ran from August 2019 to September 2021; it pursues the human-centered qualities of livability, accessibility, identity and flexibility, with indoor and outdoor programs linked and echoing, so that greenness outside the window feels close at hand.