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CIFI City Wuxi demonstration zone sits at the intersection of Furong Third Road and Huazhang Road in Xishan District, Wuxi, developed by CIFI Holdings' Jiangsu regional group, with landscape and interior work involving a design team led by Jin Man, Chen Zixia, Luo Xi, Liu Lu, Li Huilian, Zhou Congyu, Ding Guowei, Dong Leibei, Zhu Shenhui and Pan Bin, construction by Shanghai Meidi Landscape and interiors by Shanghai Mudi. The surrounding neighbourhood is old, the community boundary crude, and the municipal road busy but tired; the project treats the new showroom—planned to become a permanent community amenity—as an urban street update. To overcome the small site, the design uses rise-continue-turn-release spatial transitions that guide pedestrians into a layered world, delivering small-seen-large, large-seen-detail, detail-seen-quality, and quality-seen-transcendence. The theme is a star-journey. An open street plaza uses a planet water feature as its visual anchor, paved with planet motifs to read like a small street-side art gallery. A journey through time uses sheer, curtain-like curves derived from abstracted art to link architecture and landscape. A meteor landing pools swirling nebula water through which meteors descend into mist, and small-orbit tree pits carry planetary trajectories that echo children's play. The Spacetime Planet combines fountain, lighting, spherical sculpture and paving in rich materials, unifying plane and elevation, static and dynamic. A swirling meteor vortex uses parametric design to send stacked water downward as a futuristic nebula trace. A signature move is planting mature trees through architectural platforms, a landscape thinking that earned client and architect approval and integrates building and landscape. The design quotes Saint-Exupery: the architect hopes that residents will feel, at night, that every star is smiling.
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