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Vanke Excellence Longyuan Light of the Future is a residential display and future main-district landscape in Humen, Dongguan, at the core of the Greater Bay Area adjacent to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, beside the Humen exit of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway. The developer is Dongguan Wanqing Real Estate, landscape design by A&N Shangyuan Landscape led by Wang Xiaoli with a 20,963-square-metre landscape area, and interior design by Shenzhen Zhongshi Nanfang Construction Engineering. The architectural image is a speeding boat carrying people toward a future of stars, and the landscape beneath it becomes the star-lit sea, witnessing the boat's voyage. The project is staged as Humen's public Star-Sea Park, designed to deliver a new city front. Arrival, titled 'Return across the Sea', uses low walls of varying heights to mimic layered waves, combined with the project logo to form a refined, open and inclusive urban front. The 'Harbour of Stars' combines a spirit monument with parking to create a drop-off under the trees. The Star-Sea Plaza itself is a quality civic forecourt tuned to the hot southern climate, with an open water-feature square that embodies the precision of a display area. The 'Wave-Mound Playground' turns the site edge into terraces for parent-child and all-age public activity, so visitors feel as if they are bathing in a sea of stars. The 'Star-Sea Shoreline' uses a still water surface to set off the architecture, producing a clean, premium outlook as if the speeding boat were sailing on the sea. The 'Dwelling Garden' introduces a hotel-berth-style arrival, with a functional pergola as the visual focus and a future-life display that shares the sales gallery's vocabulary; the leisure pergola links to a pool that promises resort living for future residents, and the elevated under-croft becomes a public living room. The whole sequence is held together by the poetic promise that every sail will reach its own harbour, where there is a beach of stardust and a light that is always on for the resident.
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