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Bring the forest back to life, create an ideal neighborhood-warm living environment, and integrate a natural resort atmosphere. Newly relocated residents often feel indifferent and fearful toward their new community due to unfamiliarity with the new space, weak neighborhood relationships, or passive relocation—a manifestation of the place gap. Based on the perspective of continuing Huizhou's traditional neighborhood lifestyle and considering the planning direction of the Zhongkai area, the team considered how to bridge the place gap in urban life and create an ecological community centered on warm neighborhoods. Neighborhood is a place people can go, an open life destination; a place people want to go, an infectious warm space; a place worth going, a free social stage. Starting from multiple neighborhood life scenes, the project combines street-corner plaza, living space, and natural scenes to create a neighborhood center with internal-external connectivity and garden-forest living. Residents feel the ecological quality of the environment and the refinement of space, rediscovering a sense of belonging to home and identification with the community. The boundary: a fashionable floral block. A beautiful boundary no longer stays indoors; it can extend infinitely to the nearby street block. Strolling gracefully through the block, the anxiety of urban life is healed by artistic streetscapes; lingering in pocket gardens, natural landscape blends with the warmth of human interaction, and unfamiliar neighbors are drawn together by social landscape. Warm life arrives unexpectedly.