Z+D Garden project

Between 2020 and 2022, Z+D Zhuandi Landscape, led by founder Zhu Xirui, designed a series of luxury gardens for Hongkong Land and China Merchants Shekou, expressing a long-held belief that the garden is the primary space connecting human dwelling with nature, not only a vehicle for aesthetic taste but a projection of inner life into the real world. The collected projects include four residential gardens. The first is the Oriental Fantasy Garden at Jiayue Terrace's sales gallery: a small front court must hold arrival, pause, display and client rest, and the design uses overlapping circles to generate rich space and level changes; a planted, sunken seating pocket offers enclosure, while a central jade-green water court welcomes visitors at the door, with weathering-steel edges chosen for low maintenance. Stepped terraces of dense planting, natural bubbling fountains, refined grilles and sculpture set the scene, and the sales gallery itself is a twin villa converted so the entry garden links seamlessly to the larger community. The second is the Stream and Mountain Hidden Garden at Shangjing Terrace's large courtyard show flat: the door opens onto ritual, with bridge, flowing water and a half-hidden pine; an S-shaped water route, a copper semi-transparent veil, sunken steps and four modern metal palace lanterns fuse classical and fashion, while the sunken box dialogues visually with the indoor living room. The third is the Quiet Garden at Jiayue Terrace's show flat, where function is the guiding thread: a refined tea terrace beside a falling water, a heavy metal sculpture on still water, a hidden bar in lush borders, a family dining area and barbecue zone, an ornamental bridge, a hostess's flower studio, a vertical succulent garden with drainage details, a two-metre art-glass screen filtering coloured light, and a sunken court linked to the upper level by crape myrtle, bird sculptures and a cascading water feature. The fourth is the Flowing Court Green Shadow at Shangjing Terrace's small courtyard show flat, where a black-stone, warm-champagne-metal tea table carries water through stone. Together the gardens demonstrate Zhuandi's long investigation into high-end residential landscape: order from chaos, poetry from geometry, quiet luxury from controlled craft.