Yibin Poly river reading platform

The Poly Yuejiangtai demonstration site, designed by Chengdu Zhilan Landscape and built in just four months on 9,000 square metres at the Yangtze River landscape avenue in Yibin's Sanjiang New Area, responds to a complex sloping site with a maximum grade change of 4.85 metres that must also house two show flats. Yibin is known as the first city on the ten-thousand-li Yangtze, and the project sits on the waterfront of the Lingang New Area, backed by mountains and fronting the river. The architectural image is conceived as a cruise ship casting off on the Yangtze, and the landscape translates the theme of sailing through waves toward a starry riverside dream. Using modern geometric language, the design turns the surging river into the site's circulatory vein, mapping voyage trajectories as abstract multi-dimensional scenes and building an immersive sequence along a narrative of departure, mid-voyage and return. The launching entry suggests a boat moored on an endless river, rendered in clean grey-white lines that guard a sense of natural purity. At the waves zone, layered water curtains fall gently in the river wind, while the light-field overlook extends a terrace where sun and breeze meet and time slows. The shallows children's play area is reached by stepping up and sliding down through the roof plane, a joyful destination where laughter drifts upward. At the star-plucking deck, visitors stand as on a cruise ship's bridge, looking up into the galaxy under a sky full of imagined constellations. The compressed schedule meant bulk earthworks began before the design was fully fixed, and the scheme had to be revised overnight when excavation altered the site's vertical levels; multiple disciplines worked in cross-operations, and the design and construction teams visited the site weekly to coordinate especially between landscape and curtain-wall interfaces. The result is conceived as a lighthouse guiding residents toward a better life, sailing the seas of happiness.