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Field Garden  Landscape Renovation

Field Garden

The project aims to transform an abandoned fruit orchard into a community garden, with the goal of enhancing social well-being and promoting harmony between agricultural ecosystems and urban life. The site is located in a rural agricultural environment, and the design takes inspiration from the fairy tale "The Wizard of Oz." By combining functionality, aesthetics, and agricultural landscapes in mind, the design utilizes scenes from the story to construct garden spaces and enhance the natural environment.

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Urban Grove Complex Cultural Space

Urban Grove

Urban Grove's landscaping was planned without interfering with the exposure of the façade and without causing inconvenience to pedestrians of all ages due to differences in floor level. In addition, the combination of resting space and landscaping allows users to enjoy a comfortable rest, and the outside air and landscaping are connected to the basement through the central pavilion, eliminating the boundary between indoors and outdoors. Through this, users can experience the same conditions of the external environment, such as weather, from underground.

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Zhonghai Tianyu Garden Residential Landscape

Zhonghai Tianyu Garden

Zhonghai Tianyu Garden is a residential landscape in the Hunnan District of Shenyang, China. The garden is arranged as a series of outdoor rooms that serve as gathering spaces for residents. Straight lines define an entrance gallery and a quiet central courtyard. Screen walls, water features and ballet inspired sculptures connect interior and exterior areas. A shallow reflecting pool can be drained in winter to reveal granite paving for further activity. Local trees such as Chinese ash, Siberian apricot, ginkgo and maple suit the cold climate.

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Cloud Building Landscape Design

Cloud Building

Cloud Building is a landscape design for a demonstration area of 4,052 square meters in Nanchang, China. Modern technology and traditional gardening ideas are combined to shape the space. Paving and lawn form an open and clear layout with strong color contrast. Large floor-to-ceiling glass and a special-shaped planting pond link the garden with the indoor scene. Regular-sized granite paving stones reduce construction difficulty and cost. Lighting interaction, intelligent sensing and voice control support the interaction between people and space.

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Archipelago Show Garden

Archipelago

This enchanting show garden, selected for the Suncheon International Garden Fair from April to October 2023, captures coastal scenery inspired by South Korea's South Sea. Using sand for concept modeling and laser scanning for topographical design, it highlights the coastline's natural beauty and showcases innovative garden design. This fusion of art, technology, and nature invites visitors to immerse in the beauty and creativity of landscape architecture, embodying the harmony between nature and human ingenuity.

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Willow Shores Demonstration Area

Willow Shores

Willow Shores is a landscape design for a demonstration area in Suzhou, China, covering 5000 square meters. The main entrance uses a minimalist approach, with a large canopy and windows in the landscape wall that open the view, while the hall entrance stays hidden behind the wall. Inside, a winding corridor combines traditional half columns with simple decorative grids, hollowed metal curtains and green bamboo. A pool is set within a pond form of southern China. The whole space is divided into five levels to support a sense of returning home.

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Plot 140 POLY Guanggang Residential Landscape

Plot 140 POLY Guanggang

Plot 140 Poly Guanggang is a residential landscape design in Guangzhou, China, covering a landscape area of 21000 square meters. The site is long and narrow, with a north-south distance of only 40 meters. A vertical garden was created to enlarge the green space within the compact urban setting. An elevated pedestrian corridor with a steel frame links the whole site and the surrounding landscape resources. Rust-colored steel plates recall the former steel works on the site. Play features support children and parent-child interaction.

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Surfland Resort

Surfland

Surfland is a resort and surf park located in Garopaba, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The main attraction is an artificial wave pool that allows surfing throughout the year, for beginners and experienced surfers alike. The site covers 400,000 square meters, of which 233,000 square meters are kept as an environmental preservation area. Buildings occupy only open ground, so existing vegetation is not cut. Natural stone, wood, concrete, steel, sand and native plants are used. The landscape follows the fluid forms of water.

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Shang Yuan Demonstration Center

Shang Yuan

Shang Yuan is a landscape design for a demonstration center in Wuxi, China. The overall layout draws on the dignified form of the Summer Palace, while the details refer to the delicate gardens of the Jiangnan region. The plan follows a pattern of one hall, two axes, three entrances, five rituals and six gardens, so each garden offers a different view to moving visitors. Techniques such as hollow-out walls and borrowed scenery extend the sense of space. Building roofs adopt Tang-style cornices, and permeable, wear-resistant materials support urban rainwater management.

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Ten Six Hundred Riverside Boutique Hotel

Ten Six Hundred

Ten Six Hundred is the landscape design of a riverside boutique hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. The name refers to the postal code 10600 of the Khlong San district. The hotel covers about 1,835 square meters and holds 31 rooms in two buildings, and it can be reached by car or by boat. The design draws on traditional riverside houses of the city, and their patterns are repeated in the hardscape. Palm trees connect the different levels, while plants suited to high groundwater keep maintenance simple. The intent is a calm setting for rest and leisure.

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Forest of Art Landscapes

Forest of Art

Forest of Art is a landscape design for a 2000 square meter site in Taichung, Taiwan, completed in October 2020. The site lies at the junction of three parks, on a downtown corner facing a walkway to a school. The building was turned 45 degrees to face the school on the diagonal side, leaving more room for planting. Planter boxes arranged in an arc surround a sky walkway that connects with arbours. Multi-layer planting at the entrance makes the street corner appear as a forest linked to the sky walkway.

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Modern Elegance Garden

Modern Elegance

The garden, which is the showcase of the owners, is dominated by transparency and harmony. The garden has a changeable character at the turn of the year. It was designed so that in addition to evergreen plants constituting the base, perennials and shrubs in shades of white and purple flourish in it. Thanks to the large glazing of the house, greenery almost penetrates into its interior. A strong decorative accent is a bonfire with wooden benches and a metal hearth in the vicinity of a minimalist wooden playground. In summer, thanks to its simplicity, limited colors, the garden calms.

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