Shunfeng Beiluo Secret

Beiluo Bay sits on Hailing Island, facing the sea to the south and enclosed by mountains on three sides. Hailing Island is a national 5A-level scenic area and was named among China's Top Ten Most Beautiful Islands by Chinese National Geography magazine for three consecutive years. Based on analysis of Beiluo Bay's natural character and local culture, and combining the needs and habits of contemporary users, the designers took sea, mountain, forest, field, and dwelling as guiding threads and dove into nature to develop their design. The mountains are good mountains, and the sea is a good sea. Some people push mountains to fill the sea; others protect the sea and cherish the mountains. The landscape design at Poly Shunfeng Beiluo Secret Realm began with reverence for nature. Without embellishment or stacking, the design intervenes gently, like moistening things silently. The chief designer said: We have come and gone, but the mountain remains the mountain, and the sea remains the sea. What people truly long for deep down is the tranquility and freedom of blue water. To enhance visitors' experience of the ocean, the designers created an approximately 700-square-meter infinity pool on the rooftop of the Beiluo Secret Realm Resort Hotel. In the pool, one feels suspended where sea and sky meet, able to touch the sky above and reach toward the distant sea, with endless horizons in every direction. The aerial view is free and expansive. However, the pool is over a hundred meters above ground, and safety must be considered. A railing would ruin the seamless image of sea, sky, and pool, but without one, how could visitor safety be guaranteed? Between these two concerns, the designers recalled how fishermen dig grooves in tidal flats to allow large fishing boats to enter and dock. Why not leave a groove along the pool edge? Drawing on the principle of tidal-flat grooves for boat mooring, the pool water surface was designed to sit slightly above the outer edge of the building curtain wall, while an overflow return channel of safe width was reserved between the pool and the building curb. This lets visitors enjoy the unique infinity high-altitude landscape while swimming safely. A separate children's pool satisfies young children's desire to be near water, and a supervised viewing area beside the pool ensures that both adults and children enjoy equal rights to the scenery. A mountain climbing boardwalk follows the contours of the reefs and the slope of the mountain, adapting to nature. This trail, winding nearly three kilometers and paved with stone, blends almost invisibly with the mountain rock when viewed from afar. Before the vast ocean and the timeless reefs, centuries are but a snap of the fingers. Landscape design must not upstage its subject. The boardwalk is not intended for reaching a summit but for offering an alternative viewing experience and serving as a venue for exercise and wellness. Modern people increasingly value health and many maintain exercise habits. Imagine jogging along the boardwalk at dawn or dusk, with the emerald sea on one side and the austere mountain on the other, breathing in the spiritual essence of mountain and sea. Over a hundred wild coconut trees grow freely along the beach. The designers borrowed from nature without moving a single grain of sand or a single tree, adding only thatched shelters and seating beneath the wild coconut grove to form beachside rest spaces.