Yango Shimao feiliguandi

The Feili Guandi sales landscape in Jianyang, Nanping, Fujian, is commissioned by Yango and Shimao and designed by Shenzhen Voya Landscape, built by Fujian Yalin. Jianyang is one of Fujian's five oldest counties and, as the place where Zhu Xi founded the Kaiping Academy in his later years, is known as the land of Neo-Confucianism and the repository of books. The project aims to inherit the thousand-year academy tradition and its spiritual depth, returning to refined living through an Eastern landscape courtyard. The site lies in the West District ecological city of Jianyang, next to the Foreign Language School and backed by Zhu Xi's Kaiping Academy, giving it both natural ecology and cultural heritage. Kaiping Academy itself was sited by Yuzhen Mountain and Mayang Creek, and the new layout follows Zhu Xi's idea of unity between heaven and human, wrapping the building around water and mountain. The entrance opens onto a clear still pool reflecting an art sculpture, with a perforated folded screen depicting the layered Cuiping Mountains; the mood is restrained and literary. A transitional passage of bamboo and water over stone continues the scholar-recluse narrative, and the covered corridor layers sequence and shadow. At the core, the Light and Cloud Pavilion rises from a pond, recalling the half-mu square pond Zhu Xi once dug and on which he built a pavilion named for light and clouds; the glass-and-tower structure floats on the water, transparent and pure, embodying the unity of heaven and human. The poem On Reading Inquiry is engraved on a pine wall, and a bubbling stone spring answers the final line about the source of clear water. The outer corridor of the sales gallery provides a place to sit, drink tea and watch water and stone, completing a modern Eastern Neo-Confucian landscape that merges spirit with nature.