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Bangtai Tianyu in Yibin is a large-scale residential landscape designed by AOBO Landscape for Sichuan Bangtai Investment, located at the confluence of the Jinsha and Min rivers where the ten-thousand-li Yangtze begins. As a new flagship TOP-series work for the developer, the project draws on Tang-dynasty elegance and introduces mirror-water features associated with urban luxury housing to Yibin's market, creating a neo-Asian landscape that synthesises traditional Chinese landscape painting. Traditional ritual order and cultural return are the starting point: landscape elements are drawn from classical shanshui painting and recombined through point, line, plane and composition, so that entering the garden feels like walking inside an ink painting. The site is divided into themed zones, including the Qinsi Garden, Fangdian Garden, Shanshui Court, Linglong Pavilion, Liuli Mirror and Qushui Garden, forming a complete picture of Eastern rhythm with Western refinement. The overall site rises nine metres from northwest to southeast, and the design exploits this grade with steps, retaining walls and cascading water to build a richly three-dimensional ramped landscape. Ascending and crossing water, visitors move through a painted scroll of pavilions, terraces and mountains. Water features combine culture, tradition and native nature: stepping stones, Zen corridors, mountains and waters, stacked rockwork, winding paths and shifting views are set among lush trees, elegant bamboo, flowering plants and bright grasses, so that residents can smell fragrance in spring, enjoy shade in summer, admire golden leaves in autumn and view silver snow in winter. The project translates the spiritual content of traditional Chinese culture through a contemporary landscape vocabulary, matching modern functional needs and taste while preserving classical resonance.
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