Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape

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Unique Properties

The Zhonghai Tianyu Garden is located in the newly developed town center in the Hunnan District of Shenyang, China, about one kilometer away from the Shenyang Municipal Center and convenient to local transportation. There are large commercial areas, urban ecological parks, and the Liaoning Provincial Library within close proximity.

The final product illustrates what can be achieved when designer, contractor and client work together as a team. The garden was conceived as a collection of outdoor rooms that serve as a community gathering place for the residents, featuring multiple leisure and entertainment spaces to create a beautiful environment suitable for living, recreation, and work.

Tianyu Garden has garnered much attention from the community and is loved by the residents. It has made this residential neighborhood a top choice for local citizens to buy a new home. It has become a popular destination for residents who were already living within the community making the garden spaces lively and vibrant, bringing neighbors together. With a design that considers the combination of nature, culture, and people, it serves the residents and the community well, and will set an example of future development for years to come.

Dimensions & Packaging

It covers area of about 25535 square meters，landscape design area of 20,900 square meters.

Tags

Art community, modernism, fashion, sculpture, high quality

Production Technology

The Garden is divided with straight lines to build an artful entrance gallery and a quiet leisure center courtyard within a densely populated residential area. These three different sculptures add a playful elegance to the landscape and absorb the attention of the pedestrians, subtly guiding them through the spaces. The central ballet sculpture gracefully revolves on a reflective pool of water, and brings inspiration, meaning, and soul into the courtyard.

Vegetation is planted to enhance the sense of geometrical space in the residential garden, making the landscape views more versatile by emphasizing spatial relationships. Due to the site’s extremely cold winter weather, the plant selection must also be hearty and express a dynamic change throughout the seasons. Local trees such as Chinese Ash and Siberian apricots can weather the winter and provide a flush of green and colorful flowers in the spring. Rows of strong Ginkgo trees planted near the edges form a sense of sequence through the courtyards and have the function of blocking winter winds. Maple trees artfully placed as focal points in the garden fill the space with soft foliage in the summer and provide sculptural branch patterns against the snow in the winter.

Landscape site lighting provides warm outdoor spaces that are usable a night, while also defining many of the artistic elements found within the garden. Lights inset into paving and lawns provide illumination from the ground level to highlight the walking surfaces and plants. Lights set within the water features reflect shimmering patterns onto the paper-white walls of the courtyards. This combination of light elements can create and enrich an activity space for afternoon and evening entertaining, thus furthering the principal of blending interior and exterior spaces.

Design Challenge

The site location near the center of a bustling city district, it is a big challenge for designers to create a quiet and leisure space for residents in the community. The space is divided with straight lines to build an artful entrance gallery and a quiet leisure center courtyard within a densely populated residential area. Airy and dynamic screen walls are used consistently within the gardens to blur the lines between interior and exterior spaces allowing glimpses of views from one courtyard to the next. Sunlight passing through these screen walls also facilitates a play of light and shadow across the plants, paving, and water surfaces. Water features are used throughout the spaces for its reflective quality to visually expand the view, and for their gentle sound.

The maintenance of waterscape in northern China in winter is a big problem. The designer has handled the waterscape ingeniously. Linear, hand-carved granite fountain troughs interject into the entry courtyard providing an echo of soft water as it falls over the smooth stone surfaces. A shimmering reflecting pool in the central courtyard, just millimeters deep, can be drained in the winter months to reveal rich granite paving to allow for more usable activity area adjacent to interior functions within the building.

Project Duration

The project started in 2018 in Hunnan District, Shenyang, China and finished in May 2019.

Operation Flow

The garden uses the rational lines of the classic paintings of Piet Mondrain to create and enclose the space, forming an art entrance gallery and central courtyard that accommodates various functions, with consideration to the movement of light and shadows. The design fuses plants with water, walls, and sculptural elements into a sequence of light and contrast that form a rich spatial level of diversity within a relatively small space.

A primary intention of the garden design was to seamlessly blend the connections between indoor and outdoor spaces by creating outdoor living rooms for the residents to enjoy. Airy and dynamic screen walls are used consistently within the gardens to blur the lines between interior and exterior spaces allowing glimpses of views from one courtyard to the next. Sunlight passing through these screen walls also facilitates a play of light and shadow across the plants, paving, and water surfaces. Water features are used throughout the spaces for its reflective quality to visually expand the view, and for their gentle sound. Linear, hand-carved granite fountain troughs interject into the entry courtyard providing an echo of soft water as it falls over the smooth stone surfaces. A shimmering reflecting pool in the central courtyard, just millimeters deep, can be drained in the winter months to reveal rich granite paving to allow for more usable activity area adjacent to interior functions within the building. The various garden spaces furnish visual focal points for people within the clubhouse, especially a sunken courtyard with a bold paving pattern that is surrounded by fitness activity rooms, private event space, and a children’s play room.

Research

Located near the entrance of the broader community, it has been designed to integrate with the housing nearby, and provide more generous spaces for social, fitness, entertaining and other activities, as well as connect the clubhouse and terrace with the public lawns and water features. A collective vision reimagines a blank site into a setting that celebrates a timeless sense of place. Plants, pathways and water features form thoughtful gathering spaces that combine a strong appreciation for regional ecology and climate to creatively blur the lines between indoor and outdoor space.

Inspiration

The designer took inspiration from the elegant artistic features of ballet and the rational lines found in the classic paintings of Piet Mondrian. These two elements are combined to build a geometric residential garden with a sense of modern simplicity and sensuality. A collection of ballet-inspired sculptures sets a continuous tone throughout the garden rooms and are placed at the entry, the central courtyard and in a transitional indoor/outdoor space.

Image Credits

Image#1: UNO-PHOTO, Waterscape and sculpture are opposite，2018
Image#2: UNO-PHOTO,Landscape entrance，2018
Image#3: UNO-PHOTO, Fountain water view and partition window，2018
Image#4: UNO-PHOTO, Waterscape and plants form a contrast，2018
Image#5: UNO-PHOTO, Modeling tree and stepped waterscape，2018

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