Guangzhou · Ecological Design Town · Cloud Valley Dream Building

Yungu Mengzhu in the Conghua World Ecological Design Town sits beside the Liuxi River, an area known as the first spring of Lingnan for its hot spring resources. The site adjoins an old glucose factory, with legacy mature trees and a mountain stream creating a quiet, blue-green setting of one stream and two bays reflecting green hills. This project is the team's first integrated landscape-architecture-interior design, drawing on the Garden Treatise's principle that forests and mountains are the finest garden land. The design adopts a natural micro-architecture concept, combining locality with internationalism at the town gateway. Buildings use simple, fluid lines with extensive glass replacing walls to create floating boxes that honor Mies' Farnsworth House and Wright's Fallingwater. The architecture is itself landscape, and landscape is both ornamental and functional. The site's significant elevation change is used to channel the stream into the site, connecting with the town's greenway to form a mountain-water axis. The gateway building, nearly 40 meters long and suspended over the stream on a three-meter elevation change, serves as both passage and resting place. Inspired by exhibition windows, the landscape station frames mountain and water views while visitors inside become part of the scenery. A black volume, structurally centered on columns, floats above a white box as the primary gateway. The interior extends the exhibition theme, displaying industrial artworks from the ecological conference center in display windows that change with season and daylight.