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Sunac Yunshui Guantang Garden in Zhuhai is a residential landscape designed by Guangzhou Guanji Landscape Design, located on the east side of Shunda Road and south of Jinshui Road in Jinwan District. From the earliest design discussions, the front court and rear garden were treated as separate compositions: the front would be open to the city, while the rear would be an inward-facing garden. For the front, the designers conceived an open light-and-shadow corridor through which visitors pass as if through time. On the outer face, suspended glass bricks were used, interpreted as liuli colored glaze and ocean waves. Zhuhai has a deep association with the sea, so the design embeds the Lingnan-and-sea theme into the landscape to evoke a sense of place and belonging. Local memory of Lingnan gardens is anchored in walls, courtyards, corridors, pavilions, and colored glaze. The design borrows the Lingnan typology of outer wall and inner courtyard, producing a modern garden with Lingnan flavor. Along the perimeter, corridors and pavilions form the boundary between the site and the outside world, so that crossing one corridor means leaving the dust of the city behind. The liuli Manchurian window, a hallmark of Lingnan gardens, is reimagined through arranged glass bricks into a pixelated liuli sea. The rear under-canopy plaza invites visitors to tread the sea and chase waves, while the elevated podium's gray space forms a secondary arrival route that considers visual penetration with the surroundings. An outdoor lounge area is formed through semi-transparent spatial interaction, and the meeting of different materials evokes sitting in the sea while enjoying clear wind and moon. The rear experience zone uses stone paving, placed rocks, and wildflower borders to create a natural scene. Project details are limited in the source material.
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