Shanghai Moet Metropolitan

The Jindi Mingyue Duhui sales-garden demonstration zone in Fengxian, Shanghai, is staged as a waking dream narrated by a white elephant named Baixiang Xiang, who collects disappearing memories with a dream-catcher. The site was remote and poorly serviced, so the team proposed treating the design as a gift - a gift to every child under one hundred, capable of awakening the purest sense of wonder. The elephant, traditionally a symbol of auspicious power and gentle honesty, became the guiding motif. Four "dreams" structure the journey. The first, "Forest of Order," is the arrival court: formal straight lines set a ceremonial welcome, dotted with dancing fountains and fragrant groves, producing an elegant, ritual first impression. The second, "Forest Symphony," converts the elephant into playground equipment set within fluid curves; pure-white elephant forms against deep and pale blue surfaces create a flexible, malleable landscape of curves that reads like a symphony dedicated to water play. The third, "Secret Garden," faces the street and uses a cloud-and-ladder installation - a floating "cloud ladder" of shifting cloud forms - as a memorable landmark that silently directs visitors toward the sales centre. The fourth, "Adventure Canyon," is a sunken interactive zone where vertical and horizontal spaces interlock, and curves and straight lines weave together to support climbing, crawling and exploring. The overall palette is pure white, with the white elephant as an uncluttered form that invites infinite possibility; the collision of curves and straight lines, of upper and lower spaces, builds a multi-dimensional play-and-learning world. The project is located at the intersection of Jinhai Highway and Hongqi Port in Fengxian, Shanghai.