By Rong Chen Tian

Also known by the title Fuzhou Cifi Rongchen Tianzhu, this project by HWA for Cifi Group is the larger residential-landscape framing of the colourful gift-box children's playground described under the same development. Fuzhou, capital of Fujian with twenty-two centuries of history and an ancient gateway of the Maritime Silk Road, is undergoing rapid expansion in Jin'an District, where loess, scattered rock and construction cranes marked the site before intervention. HWA's brief was to design from a child's eye level, building an interactive, exploratory play landscape that works across ages, family types and the expectations of young parents. The design treats the surrounding chaos as a prompt rather than a problem: instead of a cheap temporary set, the office built an inward-facing, permanently retained garden that screens out the street and invites children to climb, chase and investigate. The entrance is a gradient-coloured slatted screen through which light flickers like spilled pigment, spreading into a brilliant field as free of care as a child's afternoon. Fuzhou's city flower, the jasmine, is abstracted into curving lines that organise the whole play programme, blending art, playfulness and participation. A large theatrical installation forms a second world through which children run and hide, joined by a climbing net and a giant whispering tube. After dark, point lights appear like stars strung through the trees. The office paired dynamic and quiet moments to keep the space alive across the day, treating humanistic art and contemporary urban life as inseparable. Because a children's garden carries the hopes of the next generation, the design team supervised the construction closely, coordinating daily with contractors and the developer to resolve details on site and deliver the project on time and to a high standard. The result is a safe, carefree starting point for childhood, embedded permanently in the life of the community rather than removed after sales end.