Merchants · Sea Moon Garden

China Merchants Haiyue Garden is a public housing and residential project developed by China Merchants Shekou Sanya on Zhenxing Road in Yazhou District, Sanya, within the Deep-Sea Science and Technology City of Yazhou Bay. With a landscape area of 75,142 square metres completed in March 2023 and landscape design by LAURENT Luo Lang, the project is organised as a tropical garden community that translates health and happiness into a quotidian lifestyle. The design team frames the work around three relationships: people with nature, people with people, and people with the community, aiming to set a benchmark for healthy public housing in Hainan. A tree-lined approach to the home reads as a ceremonial avenue, its rows of trees and feature walls greeting residents and visitors alike, calming troubled minds and leading residents toward a warm entry. The entire community is barrier-free, a gesture the designers read as both social responsibility and care for residents. Pavilions and shaded plazas are distributed so that small groups can gather under trees for conversation, open-air films, children's football matches or cultural receptions, creating a 24-hour-a-day communal scene in which long-term neighbours no longer remain strangers. Lush planting and fragrance, soft-surface play areas, shaded exercise decks and seating edges frame everyday routines: waking to sun on flowering beds, running on safe rubberised surfaces, stretching under trees, and resting where children's laughter is audible. Every tree is hand-selected by the designers so that it can grow with the residents, producing a safe, natural, healthy and continuous living experience that is meant to deepen over one, three, five or ten years as nature and time act together. The project argues that inclusive, future-oriented residential design turns affordable housing into joyful living, and that a carefully planted, programmed and sustained landscape can support intergenerational life in a tropical city.