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Developed by Vanke Chengdu and landscaped by Chengdu Seken Landscape, the Yi Xin Hu An residential campus takes Chengdu's leisurely, mountain-water-forest culture as its starting point, set under the title 'cloud-mountain-water, urban seclusion'. The entrance extracts the form of Sichuan clouds in a hotel-style roundabout, dominated by a nine-metre-high portal and asymmetric Jazz-white marble planters; cloud-like white surfaces flow into curving lines, and a stepped transition resolves the site grade like walking among clouds. Along the symmetrical axial water feature, tall ginkgo rows, a water-form sculpture and a terminal cascade deliver a dignified, resort-like arrival. Beyond the entrance, a quiet atrium borrows the terrain of western Sichuan, with irregular natural spaces and waterfalls forming a multi-layered mountain-water resort scene: a grand waterfall, safe waterside terraces and an aerial walkway combine visual, auditory and tactile experiences. A sunken garden, rare in Chengdu, is combined with the basement level, and a 56-metre aerial walkway winds overhead like a mountain path, with birds above and a stream below. The rear waterfall, inspired by Jiuzhaigou's travertine pools, drops eight metres from a viewing platform like spilled pearls, calming into a small pool edged with pink muhly grass and falling cherry petals; at its end, a bamboo grove closes the courtyard. A health loop ties together children's play, fitness, basketball and badminton for all ages, and a fenced pet park offers lawn, loop track and seating for residents and their dogs, while entrance gardens planted with fresh floral borders complete a homecoming that treats every day as a small resort.
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