Hefei Huarun Ziyutai

Ziyue Terrace, by Instinct Fabrication for China Resources Land's Hefei company, sits between downtown Hefei and Feidong county in Anhui, targeted at a young post-1990s clientele. The design aims to take them away from fast-paced, high-pressure urban life and offer a relaxed, natural, quiet atmosphere that reduces stress and clears cluttered thoughts. Drawing on the Russian thinker Chernyshevsky's dictum that art comes from life, the team abstracts the stress-relief process into four moves, sorting, packing, clearing and emptying, each matched to a simplified spatial form that delivers a pure experience. At the street corner, an interaction between a giraffe and a citrus tree immediately greets visitors and hints at a hidden, leisurely retreat; the bronze entry frame, pale-yellow feature wall and grille are simple, strong and composed, and in winter sunlight the grilles, branches and wall shift through changing shadows. A parametric grille wall opposite the entry expresses the project's fashionable character for its young audience. Floating strip planters sit in ordered rows on crushed stone, guiding the tour path; by stripping away deliberate ornamentation, the design relaxes visitors, and tree posture, grass form, shadow play and wall view merge into layered visual experience. A raised lawn, a facing feature wall and a lone pine compose a quiet terminal space; the parametric wall is made of 525 steel cylinders of varying heights whose shadows shift through the day, and at the edge of the open lawn a podocarpus stands in mist like a sculptural greeter. A mirror-like water feature reflects the sales-pavilion building; walking on water between lighted columns creates a ritual entry, and after dark the quiet surface is scattered with starlight while butterflies rest in the mist. Completed in 2018 at the intersection of Nvshan Lake Road and Qingliuguan Road in Feidong, the showroom is a stress-reducing landscape and a sample of future residential life designed for young people.