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The Vortex Garden, a display garden at the 2021 Shenzhen Bougainvillea Garden Show, was designed to be recycled and reused. Unlike traditional garden displays that are discarded after the show, the landscape architects aimed to consider the life cycle of a temporary garden. The garden was built with a prefabricated module system that allowed 90% […]

The 19th Asian Games Athletes Village, a temporary residence for athletes, technical officials, and media personnel from various Asian countries, will cover an area of 30.4 hectares on the east bank of the intersection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Qiantang River. This village will provide a comfortable and convenient environment for nearly 20,000 […]

The Vortex is a low-budget and recyclable display garden at the 2021 Shenzhen Garden Show. In a context where mostly garden materials are turned into trashes after the garden show is completed, the landscape architects propose to reconsider the life cycle of a temporary garden. A prefabricated module system was devised, through which the garden […]

The Light Garden The Light Garden is a roof garden of a condominium tower located in the most popular and crowded shopping district of downtown Shenzhen. The main idea of its design is to “light up” the garden in several manners.  Lightweight The buildings have been put into use before the designing of the garden, […]

A Spontaneous Urban Playground – Puzzle Park The Puzzle Park is an important mini park for the suburb of Huai’an City, where open spaces are extremely scarce. Since the Puzzle Park is located at an industrial area where staffs live in adjacent neighborhoods, it brings not only precious open space but also happiness to the residents […]

The Hill Residence is a 1,000-unit condominium complex located in Chongqing, a city born in the mountains. The vision of this project is to reimagine the typical gated collected housing development in China. The Hill Residence is located in an existing hill, which was brutally flattened by the original master plan. A 60-feet-high retaining wall […]

The Waterdrop Garden The vision of the Waterdrop Garden is to reimagine the rooftop gardens in dense cities of China. The Waterdrop Garden is a privately owned public rooftop garden, which sits on one of the most popular shopping malls in Shenzhen. Inspired by the nature of waterdrop, the garden is designed to accommodate different […]

The MixC World is the most popular retail area in Shenzhen, with a vibrant atmosphere in the streets and changing events and programs in the plazas. On the 4th floor of MixC World, there is a public rooftop garden connecting the office tower and the shopping mall. Catering to the diverse user groups and ever-changing […]

The Wave is a low-budget and recyclable display garden at the 2020 Shenzhen Flower Show. Within more than 20 display gardens at the 2020 Shenzhen Flower Show, the Wave is the only garden that can be used and reconstructed with the 90% of the items. In a visual-dominant flower show context, there is enormous waste […]

The Light Garden is a roof garden of a Condominium tower located in the most popular and crowded shopping district of downtown Shenzhen. The main idea of the design is to “light up” the garden in several manners. Due to extreme soil depth constraint, light weighed podium decks, terraces, and planting areas are carefully planned […]

The Yuhu Apartments is a 1,000 unit apartment complex located in Chongqing, a city born in the mountains. This 10.7-ha site locates in part of an existing hill, which the original master plan brutally flattens and creates a retaining wall of 17-meter-high at the site boundary, separating the site and the other part of the […]

Iconic Circles  The Kimma Youth Community is a residential community targeting the young users in Nanjing, China. This three-tower apartment complex has an open campus, which is rare (often gated and walled) in China. This offers great opportunity for landscape architect to re-imagine collected housing community environment in China. “Circle” is used as the central […]

The Folds – A Topographic Sensation   The Folds is a community playground that mobilizes children’s perceptions with landform, it is designed with the notion of returning to the basics, through folding of spaces. We deliberately minimize the use of playground equipment. We believe that the folding landform can encourage children to perceive the space with their hands […]

A Pixel Community Guangzhou Vanke Cloud City Phase 2 is a pioneer mixed-use development which is comprised of a diverse blend of affordable housing, small apartments, incubator offices, a shopping mall and a middle school. Even with all these different elements, landscape architects formulated a complete and rich “pixel community” with a unified landscape framework. The framework is based on a pixelated grid system that not only provides flexible […]