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Wanjin Mansion, developed by China Overseas Holdings and landscaped by HWA with interiors by Shenzhen Houfu Design, is a Dalian residential showroom that takes its narrative from the local experience of returning home across the sea. The guiding line is stepping onto the water and returning leisurely, weaving Dalian's seaside landscape together with humanistic care. The entry image draws on the Yuan-dynasty poet Xu Zhen's line moon pool connects the harbor, the painted boat has no sail; using pure contemporary means, the team extracts the moon pool, harbor and painted boat as motifs. The painted boat is not literally depicted: the natural texture of materials and wave-like surfaces carry the character of this coastal city while keeping the entry artistic and integrated into the urban fabric. A clear, still water pool lets returning residents shed the fatigue of the world, and a hotel-lobby-style enclosed landscape frames the water from every window, bringing people close to nature; mountain, pool and distant hill are composed through the interplay of light and shadow, solid and void, so that the mountain seems near yet unreachable, evoking the dialogue with nature that urbanites long for. Beyond the main lobby, layered cascades paired with submerged and strip lighting recreate Dalian's fluorescent beach, as if stars had fallen into the sea; walking past the falling water is like treading on waves. The famous Dahei Mountain of Jinzhou is condensed into a standing mountain form in the water, giving a dignified, elegant prospect. At the open water surface the scene unfolds like mist on a river, and in front of the sales center floating light, thin mist and ink-wash blossoms recall the poem about ink blossoms by the inkstone pool. The project is intended to be a home by the sea that remembers the city as it is, rather than inserting a foreign object into it, and to offer residents a life facing the sea in spring bloom.