Citic lake forest

CITIC Forest Lake is CITIC City Development's first low-density mountain-and-lake residential community in Luhe, offering duplex villas, stacked villas and courtyard homes surrounded by ecological, education, medical, public service and commercial clusters. The design draws inspiration from The Peach Blossom Spring, organizing the master plan around one heart, two loops, two axes and five gardens with seven lanes. The site features significant elevation changes, dense vegetation and an adjacent Chinese medicine hospital and civic park. GND Landscape took the idea of city outside, peach spring inside as its starting point, using modern, restrained landscape language while continuing the spatial ritual of traditional gardens. The design extracts the five movements of the Peach Blossom Spring narrative to define successive courtyards: a welcoming gate, a tree-lined ceremonial approach, a spring-and-cliff water feature, a natural mountain-and-water realm and a future-life experience center. The 60-meter-wide monumental gate pairs cascading water with a quiet material palette to create an elegant curve. Inside, spring-fed stone walls and planted rockeries create the feeling of clear wind and bright moon over near water and distant mountains. A nine-meter waterfall uses fiber-optic water curtains that convey the sheen and movement of water with contemporary technology. A zigzag corridor extends the viewing route, leading to a mirror moon pool that opens onto an infinity pool, water lounge and pomelo trees with water features. A floating viewing platform frames distant mountains, architecture and garden views. Walking nodes connect to the adjacent municipal park's blue-green infrastructure, restoring public views of mountain and water. The project achieves a sublimation from landscape to atmosphere, from resource to culture. In water environment creation, the design avoids the disadvantageous visual factors of building retaining walls and uses elevation changes to create multiple water forms that add spatial layering. Waterfalls and cascades showcase natural and crafted beauty with rustic charm; mirror-like water surfaces blend naturally with surrounding ground, making space feel infinitely extended. Functional water features consider safety so that more water-loving residents can feel a return to nature. Beyond physical green-space construction, the design uses green space as a carrier to coordinate space, ecology, function and activity, strengthening interaction among people and building a harmonious relationship among architecture, courtyards and nature.