The Cambrian in kunming town happy world

The Cambrian Town Happy World project on the northeastern shore of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan is a large-scale cultural tourism development centered on Cambrian-period heritage, integrating a fossil museum, animal kingdom, ocean world, wetland park, resort town, high-end hotels, and a hillside vacation zone. After six years of construction, the town has become a popular lakeside destination. The original sales gallery, built starting in 2015 and opened in 2017, consisted only of a roughly triangular building with an outdoor parking lot; visitors were driven between separate clusters with no pedestrian connections. The owner, Yunnan Happy World Investment Holdings, sought an overall landscape upgrade that would convey the town's joyful character and link the gallery to other zones through a walkable lakeside promenade. The landscape design by WTD Design, commissioned in 2020, faced a site already surrounded by existing and under-construction buildings, with the gallery on high ground overlooking Fuxian Lake but visually enclosed. Nearby attractions include the animal world, ocean world, and circus, generating heavy pedestrian traffic. The design had to add value complementary to the buildings, transmit a spirit of joy, and encourage visitors to linger outdoors. Positioned as a public living room that combines parent-child play with social gathering, the landscape uses a flower-border walkway to connect the gallery with adjacent buildings. Sports facilities such as swings, trampolines, and skateboarding, rendered in bright colors, inject vitality. A semi-circular covered corridor extends the building outward: one end opens toward the lake as a viewing platform, while the other links to a show-courtyard that is the best sunset vantage point. The corridor encloses a green theater space, with swathes of purple Pennisetum grass forming an invisible boundary; visitors can lounge on benches, drink at the bar, or take coffee on the rooftop. The sports program is carefully zoned: zip lines and skateboarding near the eastern side suit older children and adults, while trampolines, lawn, and sand pits in the front court serve younger children, and a sunset swing faces the lake at the highest point. The design preserves the site's slope for a three-dimensional mountain-park effect, planting flower borders and specimen trees along the walkway, and an ephemeral creek bed carries rainwater past visible cobbles in the wet season. The result converts a disconnected, barren sales area into an open, walkable public park that links all clusters on foot and by car, adding functional value to the resort destination.