Suzhou Xuhui will be top grade

CIFI Duhui Shangpin in Suzhou's Wuzhong District treats the residential community as the smallest urban unit of happiness, carrying the warmth of family, the joy of friends and the pleasure of neighborly acquaintance. Antao Design organized the landscape around a 1+3+N system: one IP generates three picture frames and N life scenes, focused on all-age interaction, joyful growth and lifelong companionship. The first frame is a refined return-home sequence along a main landscape axis that links the north and south entrances; a ceremonial feature wall, an art circular hall and an elegant water feature wash away the fatigue of the day, and a sequence of tree rows leads residents into a new world. The IP, Little Xuxiong, frames a forest-circus play zone where climbing poles, nets and rocking riders let children explore, rest and release their nature in sunlight and fresh air, while an all-age energy ring gives every age its own comfortable place. Left-over green space becomes a third play field where an elevated walkway puts residents beside nature, plants and a rain-garden lawn. On nearly 1,100 square meters of fresh-air lawn, the Fragrant Grass Life Hall opens possibilities for lifestyle: a multi-room, multi-function reception space for rest, friendship, neighborhood exchange and festivals. The Sunshine Island gives fitness enthusiasts a stage, drawing residents out to breathe and sweat; the Oxygen Island is a pet zone where owners meet and dogs find companions. The Midsummer Night Botanical Garden is a naturalistic immersive space of trees, rocks and rustling leaves, and the parent-child orchard brings seasonal flowers and fruit picking to the doorstep. The nine-scene program also folds sponge-city rain gardens into the planting, with landscape stones and interstitial roads producing changing views and a link between people and space. At Sky City, a colored running track and ergonomic fitness equipment support aerobic, cognitive and strength exercise; the Fitness Workshop is a year-round indoor-outdoor venue for adults and children alike, turning working out into a social calling card. The Nature Classroom, paired with the orchard, brings biological science into daily life. Across 37,516 square meters, completed in 2021, the project aims to recover neighborhood, let nature spread and let art grow freely, achieving the symbiosis of poetic dwelling and human presence.