Juli Yundu Hui Community Park in Yinchuan

Juli Yunduhui Community Park is located in the central area of Helan County, north of Yinchuan, Ningxia, designed by UP+S (Aupbaisi) for client Ningxia Juli Real Estate Development. Helan County faces the Helan Mountains to the west, whose grand, beautiful ridges and winding streams bring a rich mountain-water character to the site. The project initially serves as a sales center and later converts into a community park, surrounded by dense residential neighborhoods. The design takes Gathering-in-Forest as its theme, centered on biophilic design and the concept of concealment, producing a residential landscape with artistic, contemporary flair. Following the site's circulation, visitors wander through five forest-dwelling scenes. Cloud Valley Seclusion opens the street corner with sparse, curved walls and a quiet approach, while a lit monument in off-white with a glowing gold logo guides residents home. The main entrance opens diagonally to the corner, friendly and inclusive, with gently rising steps and a still-water feature opening the prologue. Flowing feature walls set the pace, and planting and water move with the walker; a ginkgo grove adds another realm, showing the purity of golden autumn leaves. Cloud Gorge forms a sunken walking space with stepped, lively interfaces, connecting the sales center to the future community-park entrance across a dramatic elevation change. A cloud bridge, feature walls, and layered water features unfold an immersive vertical scene: from the bridge one looks out from near the sky, while below, one wanders the gorge and meditates at the water's edge. Lake-Light Forest is the horizontal counterpart, a quiet lakeside zone for listening to rain, watching moon and clouds, and forgetting time and self. A waterside pergola sits within dense greenery, holding the warmth of sunset and the soft light of moon and clouds. The Growth Garden is a children's wonderland in the woods: imagined space capsules, outdoor classrooms with birds and squirrels, an ephemeral creek and sand pit, climbing walls, and a treehouse. Adults too can go barefoot for a day, listen to leaves crackle, interact with lights and fountains in the plaza, or meditate in the treehouse. The final Nourishing Space is a show courtyard where seasonal flowers bloom in colors and fragrance, with undulating groundcover and interwoven groves suggesting future real life. Research has shown that prolonged separation from nature causes nature-deficit disorder, linked to childhood autism, youthful depression, and elderly dementia; even half an hour of daily nature contact benefits health. Yunduhui is a post-pandemic exploration of healthy residential landscape, bringing wild, natural living scenes to city dwellers and creating a healthy, convenient, fashionable urban community.