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Vanke Bailu Jun Xi Anlan sits in Liangzhu, Hangzhou, developed by Vanke Hangzhou, with landscape architecture by JTL Studio Chongqing led by Liu Zhan, Pax Ju and Wen Guofu, and a design team including Cai Ruidi, Wang Xiaobo, Zou Xingyu, Liu Zhang, Wu Yanxi, Li Yingpeng, Chu Lingwei, Li Xiang, Duan Yun, Zhou Yang, Wu Dan, Chen Fang and Zhang Jingwen, interior architecture by Fang Haifeng, Wu Jiafan, Fang Xieling, Chen Chanchuan, Zhu Yunxin, Zhang Jun and Shuang Yushuang, and contractor Hangzhou Bincai Landscaping. The project's leitmotif is "dialogue with all things" - a spatial, temporal and cultural conversation rooted in Jiangnan memory. Surrounded by mountains and water, the design team let inspiration move between emotion and reality to find the proper measure between people and nature. The mountain is treated as a lyric, hazy and philosophical poem, and every transition - from upper to lower, inside to outside - aims to quiet the mind before a new scene appears. Rather than piling on landscape vocabulary, the design lets sunlight, trees, flowers and running water become the protagonists, blending architecture with nature through materials chosen for their near-natural textures that age gracefully over time. A second-floor terrace frames the lake, while a few Chinese tallow trees rise from the water and the sunken walkway leads toward the rear garden. Light is treated as a subject of meditation: bluestone, gridded walls, fluffy shrub masses and graceful tallow groves are set in play as sunlight moves across them, weaving instant beauty through shadow and colour. At the water, stone blocks interlock with reflecting pools so that history and modern geometry share the promenade, and floating seating platforms above the water invite long views out to the lake, overhung by branches within arm's reach. The result is a dialogue between people and water, nature and daily life - the tenderness of light, the upright grace of trees, the broad rhythm of mountains and the quiet, lively movement of water.