Melting and liyang Cao Shan city home stay facility model park in the future

The Sunac Caoshan Future City homestay model park in Liyang, Jiangsu, designed by A+D A-Lava, is the opening phase of a 9.32-million-square-meter resort community that gathers leading boutique lodging brands including Qianli Zoudanqi, Xipo, Dalezhiye, Guoyun Shanju, Jinglu and Yinlu. The design takes Jiangnan culture as its starting point, using contemporary narrative to deconstruct future living and reinterpreting the water-town sensibility through a modern language that reorders culture, city, nature and people. The opening phase, in partnership with the Qianli Zoudanqi brand, is organized around the local Jiaowei qin, one of China's four ancient famous zithers, and the legendary friendship of Zhinyao, the one who understands music. Three tableaux, the riverside wine shop, the curved bridge with qin songs and the sunset qin terrace, and five core scenes, curved bridge, ferry crossing, qin grove, wine shop and flower stream, exploit the original terrain for vivid, warm social life. The curved bridge is approached as a public-park gesture that cedes private ground to shared space and dissolves boundaries; bamboo weaving from the nearby Nanshan Bamboo Sea is woven into the Jiangnan vocabulary. The ferry crossing stages a contemporary Jiangnan ritual ground for those returning from long journeys, and the qin grove layers plants, rocks and paths into a quiet that is at once social and solitary, its seven-string qin and cascading water restaging the classic tale of high mountains and flowing water. The wine shop offers a slow, clear air in which to find oneself. The 11,277-square-meter red-line site, of which 9,956 square meters is landscape, was designed and built in 2021. Looking forward, the broader Future City will integrate the antique-bridge water town, a global center, international conference center, five-star hotel, hot-spring town and arts center as six industrial engines, pursuing an industry-city model that combines operation, tourism, ecology and residential life on a 14,000-mu super-resort suspended over mountains, lakes, valleys, forests and islands.