Dujiangyan Greenland Wushe College

Greentown Wushe Academy is a landscape project in Dujiangyan, Sichuan, at the foot of Mount Qingcheng, the Taoist sacred mountain facing the Chengdu Plain, backed by the snow ridges of the Min Mountains. Local legend says the Yellow Emperor toured the Five Great Peaks and named Mount Qingcheng the 'Host of the Five Peaks'; at its foot sits Wushe Academy, a name drawn from the Buddhist notion that without letting go, nothing is gained. The developer is Greentown Group South China, with landscape design by MindStudio and construction by Shanghai Shengyunhe Construction. The design team includes Jiang Jun, Yang Xiu'e, You Nanfei, Han Yan, Liu Xin, Ren Rui, Deng Tinghuan, Chen Hongsheng, Tian Hanhan, Jiang Jiayong, Chen Wei, Feng Wanhong, Zhou Yisietje, Zhang Qi and Long Jinzhou. Drawing on the long Qin-Han culture of the place, the academy pursues an 'original taste', fusing void and solid, feeling and scenery, intention and atmosphere into a plain, rustic aesthetic that returns to nature. The front court is organised as a water-reading garden: the lively sound of water, the sway of tree shadows, the soft humid breeze layer natural delicacy against constructed roughness. Winding stone paths, clear cascading water and a lush water forest make scenery reachable and tangible; as moss climbs the steps and green enters the curtains, the good life begins with the first patch of moss underfoot. On the terrace, purple flowers, green grass, white umbrellas and black stones frame a place to sit and watch time behave as it wishes. The confrontation of lamp and fire, the interweaving of light and heat, turn the scene from a cold physical space into an ideal resting place after worldly affairs: a light breeze carries the scent of grass and trees, an unhurried walk settles beside the water, bamboo shadows dapple, and softness and hardness overlap beneath warm light that soaks through the colours of time. The project stages a rebirth at the threshold of Wushe, where the rustic and the refined share a mountain setting.