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Longfor Huayanian Chunyu Xishan in Chengdu's Pidu District, designed by Sichuan Ledao Landscape for client Chengdu Wangyue Real Estate, sits beside the Modiriver greenway and a wetland park. In Chengdu, "green-island settlements" - clusters of woodland and water within the plain - are the signature of livable urbanism, and this project takes forest dwelling as its main theme. Using the adjacent municipal greenway as a starting point, the design builds a basic skeleton of roads and planting strips and unfolds five landscape sequences: Floating-Light Forest, Clear-Mist Forest Lodge, Forest-Marsh Spring, Forest Theatre and Forest Retreat. The outer municipal green belt is treated as an immersive, naturalistic strip whose longitudinal flow blurs the boundary between inside and outside; a transparent, light pergola floats through it like a cloud, marking the arrival. Along the return axis, feature walls and metal grilles frame sequential views, opening and closing as residents walk, with loosely arranged trees and herbs that calm the senses. A waterside pavilion-and-pergola follows the site's wind-and-water veins, its lattice casting slow-moving sunlight. Beneath the trees, a colourful "box" play area offers climbing walls, slides and tracks, giving parents shaded places to watch. Deep in the courtyard, forest paths use simple, restrained paving to welcome residents home from the natural city. Across the project, the aim is a quiet balance between urban life and woodland water dwelling.
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