Manyue Bay

Zhongnan Manyue Bay in Yangxunqiao, Keqiao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is a residential display landscape designed by HWA Anqi Da'er, with the F Studio Fangpai team, for Zhongnan Group's East Zhejiang region. The brief is organised as a trinity of architecture, landscape and interior: a "disappearing architecture" built in fully mirrored glass that reflects and sees through nature, a landscape of roughly two hundred metasequoia trees that hide the building within a forest, and an interior that opens onto every exterior view. The combined posture is one of humility, returning to a poetic dwelling in the woods. The entry sequence begins with naturalistic ornamental grasses and two tall feature walls, using the metasequoia as a supporting frame that conceals the display area within the quiet. The continuous, sculptural landscape and clear narrative route carve multiple experiences across the large site, becoming the visual and spiritual centre of the show district. At the end of the woodland walk, a reception space is set between dense trees and flanking walls, drawing the eye outward to layered platforms, a lively water surface and a slender, wind-standing "spirit" figure above the water, evoking an Eastern artistic mood facing the lake. Grey-white paving, mountain-shaped feature walls and layered water features glow in sunlight, carrying the residual warmth of the hills; sky, tree shadow, spring water and walls interweave with elegant lines, pure colours and rhythmic composition to produce a refined, light, mobile landscape. Passing through, the distant lake opens, and metasequoia, ornamental grasses and naturalistic borders float above a mirror-like water surface that connects upper and lower views. The sales pavilion is treated as a forest clubhouse: two outdoor terraces at different levels and large outdoor benches extend interior reception outward, rehearsing a resort-style hospitality experience within the show district. Landscape furniture is largely faux-timber, honouring ecology and history while encouraging healthy, active community life. A narrow, sixteen-metre view band forbids a typical path-and-plaza layout, so the path is composed as a picture plane and people become part of the scenery. Mirror-finish low walls under trees hide level changes behind planting and feature stones, reducing the oppressive feel of walling. The back courtyard acts as a projection of future residential life: low tables and chairs under trees, friends, late sun through the metasequoia, and a leisurely pause that anticipates future home life. The result is a forest of cedar, a folded edge of lake, a riverfront strip and a garden that turn away from urban noise and return to the quiet of the hills.