Xiushan demonstration area

The Dejie Lingshow Mountain demonstration area at Guiyang Shuanglong, located in Gujiao Town, Longli County, Qiannan, is a landscape by Blue Design International for developer Guizhou Longxi Jieshang Real Estate, built by Jisheng and Bihai Landscape. The project takes as its starting point the idea that life's depth comes from touching the limits of space and distance, and from linking people and places across time. Following Gorky's dictum that art should stand higher than reality while remaining rooted in it, the designers have treated the site as a way to connect different layers of culture through one strong visual gesture. A series of irregular, sculptural pavilions is nestled between water and woodland, set in generous, pure-coloured spaces that lift visitors out of urban clutter into a visual world above ordinary nature. Curves and straight lines, deep and shallow tones are interwoven, and tree shadows and dappled light build a warm, intimate atmosphere. The entrance gate introduces the curved design language, carving a soft elegance out of an imposing threshold; white and green collide, grey and white blend, and the whole arc moves from reshaping to seeking, from abstraction to reality, producing a contemporary life culture inside nature. The alien-shaped pavilions are meant as an expression of the ideal relationship between people and nature as an interactive, harmonious organic whole, carrying the memory of the city and the changes of nature. When sunlight passes through the gaps between their columns, dappled light brings the space to life. The management and design team, led by Zhang Yong, Zeng Min and Han Xiaohu, treats the project as a search for a more ecological, more felt relationship with the landscape of Lingshow Mountain.