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Lingxiucheng Phase II and the Yunxiang Park in Jiangjin, Chongqing, developed by Chongqing Jiangjin Luneng Lingxiucheng and designed by Shenzhen Xixishi Landscape with construction by Shengjingcheng, occupy roughly 75,000 square metres in the Binjiang New Area within the western Chongqing Science City strategy. The south of the area is already urbanised, with mountains and open land on both sides, and surrounding residential, commercial, school and hospital uses set the stage for a large-scale, master-planned community. Phase I of Lingxiucheng is already built; Phase II is positioned as China Green Development's healthy-home project, delivered through integrated planning, design, operation and use across a large community. The starting question was how to "break out" amid Chongqing's crowded market of famous projects; the answer was a global reading of the site, layered with China Green Development's low-carbon ethos, and an on-site discovery of the rolling terraced landscape that the team likened to flowing clouds. Extracting the form of clouds, they developed a "Yun Bao" mascot IP and built a customised, all-age, fully-amenitised community around it, so that commercial street, housing, park and play equipment mutually reinforce one another through a "commercial street plus park plus playground" driver. The site originally had a seven-metre level difference that complicated both sales-centre location and demonstration; after several iterations with the client and architects, the team chose a physical demonstration area plus off-site show flats, preserving soil while keeping a sixty-metre depth of green healing mountain-forest. The show flats sit inside the park's Monet Garden, with views that become reality on delivery and are later converted into park management buildings in line with low-carbon goals. The 68,000-square-metre Yunxiang Park is built around the existing slope as a mountain-themed ecological system, promoting outdoor activity through entry, sports, afternoon-forest, lawn and fitness zones linked by shaded loops. A parent-child playground is the park's focal point, with cloud-shaped play equipment reading as both a landmark and an emotional bridge; the Yun Bao story introduces Bernd the bird, Bill the bear, Robert the rabbit and Kate the cat. The commercial street is activated through the same IP, turning a functional community street into an interactive, landscape-embedded destination. The project is presented as a self-consciously multi-disciplinary attempt to give a new urban district warmth, happiness and shared life.
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