Hefei city, vanke view hidden mountains

Developed by Hecheng Gai Investment and Hefei Vanke in the Shushan District old centre, the Guan Shan Yin Xiu residential display landscape sits among leafy block parks and is approached beneath an avenue of mature camphor trees, achieving seclusion within the city. Landscape design by A&N Shangyuan, led by Zou Yuda, covers 9,936 square metres, with interiors by Matrix Design. Drawing on a thousand years of Huizhou culture, the project weaves together the Huizhou mansion layout, Huizhou potted gardens, the 24 solar terms and the scholar's four treasures, translated through a contemporary design language. The team chose a 'return home beside the garden' sequence rather than a stricter 'enter through the courtyard' progression, allowing nature and daily life to permeate each other in the spirit of Huizhou harmony between human and nature. The four-courtyard sequence is calibrated on Chengzhi Hall, a classic Huizhou merchant residence: the first gatehouse is a hotel-style drop-off carved with Huizhou wooden motifs, approached beneath a great camphor and giving the street a quiet, dignified edge; the second bright hall, reached through a timber corridor, centres on a courtyard sky with potted landscapes as garden; the third rear hall contains an inkstone courtyard, in which a giant She inkstone basin catches dappled tree shadows and flowers, breaking the conventional use of She stone by staging the act of writing; the fourth Huizhou garden wraps the core residence between two 3,000-square-metre pocket parks on the east and west, introducing a plant-kaleidoscope theme that gives future residents and neighbours a rich natural experience in the city. The team tracked every detail through handover drawings, on-site mock-ups, seedling sourcing and 360-degree planting simulations so that every angle reads as a miniature Huizhou landscape painting.