GUANXIYUE

Set at the junction of Zigong's old Ziliujing district and the Huidong area, flanked by Yangtianwo Park and the Yandu Botanical Garden, the Sunac Guan Xi Yue display landscape is developed by Zigong Sunac Ruixin and built by Sichuan Xingli Landscape. Zigong, known as the thousand-year salt capital, the dinosaur hometown and the southern lantern city, provides the project's cultural subtext; the site, a long, shallow plot, is stretched to its maximum civic frontage to create a linear, grand arrival sequence. The vehicular and pedestrian entrance is integrated, and a large irregular modern portal with Hermes-grey stone and inward-curving feature walls opens onto a central island where an abstract art sculpture immediately gathers the eye. Titled 'Stellar Gateway', the installation magnifies salt-crystal geometry into an asymmetric inverted-triangle form, its outer layer of black steel-wire rope screening separating vehicular and pedestrian entry without closing them off. A long, cinematic sequence of springs, moving light and cascading pools unfolds through the site. The hotel-style vehicular court is kept clean, its Hermes-grey curved walls raising the spatial scale while sculpted banyan trees wait like hosts. Beyond it, a time walk leads through tropical planting and bubbling fountains into a pergola; the weather-covered corridor, clad in copper-plated stainless steel grilles, guides sightlines between flanking walls and hides service elements. A Lamei-stone wall with cascading water resolves the site's grade change, and a helical water feature with a single feather maple in a raised planter adds depth. Using the natural drop, the design builds a forest-on-water space of terraced cascades that echoes Zigong's half-city-of-hills identity. At the Flowing Curtain Water Court, concentric pools expand like ripples, interwoven with draped water curtains from the corridor, while a grey space houses an art book bar and a waterside bar, and terrazzo paths, crape-myrtle alleys, meadow planting and reed lighting frame the return home.