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Walking on clouds, moving with the curves—a rhapsodic future cloud city. As a pioneer zone of an international eco-community, it offers a first experience of future quality living. The project is located in Chencun Town, Shunde, at the center of the Pearl River Delta within the Guangzhou-Foshan metropolitan circle. It is an important node in the urban development pattern. The project is based on the TOD-plus model, relying on the rail hub. With the theme of future cloud city, the project is positioned as a landmark urban complex, accommodating a variety of business formats and efficiently aggregating urban living spaces, creating a utopian high-rise luxury life that soars into the rosy clouds. The design uses clouds as the primary site element, extracting cloud curves, cloud layers, terraces, mountain forests, and valleys to integrate into the landscape, creating rich layers of landscape experience and a fluid, drifting-garden visiting sensation. Mountain-water imagery is woven into modern and fashionable design, creating a stylish, elegant, diverse, and ecological high-end intelligent ideal-life urban complex. The design is inspired by the fugue structure of a rhapsody—the fugue being the primary representative of Baroque contrapuntal musical structure. The display area design extracts the main structure of the fugue and integrates it into the landscape, forming a landscape skeleton of prelude, progression, climax, interlude, and coda. Through spatial opening and closing, built form and material, and planting composition, the design evokes the joy, calm, splendor, elegance, and ethereality found within a rhapsody, unfolding a cloud-themed landscape journey across the 14,000-square-meter site.
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