Gold Landscape Planning and Garden Design · 2022
Guomaofu Residential Demonstration
by U.P. Space Landscape Design
- A' Design Award 2022 Gold Winner in Landscape Planning and Garden Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Panfu Real Estate Development Co., Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 62,612
- Verification code C5F532F0F0 · Verify this award
About Guomaofu Residential Demonstration
Guomaofu is a landscape design for a residential development in Tangshan, Hebei, China. The project covers 7650 square meters, of which 5050 square meters are landscaped. The design draws on the imperial gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties and on the natural gardening methods of Jiangnan gardens. A central axis paved with white marble is lined with two rows of trees set in pools of water. Winding paths follow the water, and outdoor tables and chairs are placed at the waterside for residents to rest. The path home is arranged in five spatial levels.
U.P.Space Landscape Design's Guomaofu Residential Demonstration exemplifies the continued evolution of residential garden design, where traditional philosophical principles of harmony between human habitation and natural environment find expression through contemporary formal vocabulary. The composition demonstrates remarkable sophistication in its orchestration of water, stone, vegetation, and pathway into a coherent experiential sequence that invites both physical movement and contemplative pause. The curvilinear brick pathway functions as the primary organizational element, its gentle arc establishing a kinetic rhythm that draws residents through varied spatial experiences while maintaining visual continuity across the garden's breadth. The designer's mastery of plantscape layering appears in the careful gradation from low groundcover masses that suggest rolling terrain to sculptural pine specimens that provide vertical punctuation and frame views toward the architecture beyond. The integration of weathered limestone boulders demonstrates sensitivity to the scholarly rock tradition in garden design, where naturally formed stones become objects of aesthetic contemplation, their irregular surfaces and varied coloration contributing textural richness to the otherwise soft palette of vegetation. The reflective water element introduces stillness and mirror-quality luminosity, capturing the sky's pale expanse and grounding the composition in atmospheric connection between earth and heaven. The architectural elements visible in the background maintain appropriate visual subordination while establishing the essential dialogue between built shelter and cultivated landscape that defines residential garden design. This work invites contemplation of how contemporary design practice might continue honoring traditional garden wisdom while responding to the spatial expectations and aesthetic sensibilities of present-day residential living.
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- Unique Properties
- Guomaofu not only has a profound cultural origin of royal garden, but also has a unique concept of modern landscape. It not only inherits the elegant and natural taste of Jiangnan gardens, but also highlights the axis, emphasizes symmetry, focus on the relationship between master and subordinate, and shows the royal garden temperament of magnificence, nobility and elegance. Under the premise of reasonable function and structure, pay attention to the presentation of the four seasons landscape.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Total area of this project is 7650 square meters including 5050 square meters of landscape.
- Tags
- Landscape, Residential, Garden, Biophilic
- Production Technology
- Two rows of welcome trees in the pool are set up on both sides of the axis road decorated with white marble, with green color, gurgling water and linear streamline space. The road meandering along the water, winding path going far away. Outdoor tables and chairs are set up by the waterside for residents to take a nap. You can also visit the garden along the road, watching the water and enjoying the flowers.
- Design Challenge
- The project needs a clear sense of homecoming ritual, and pay attention to privacy and security. Thus, the design integrate humanization, the winding path of natural garden, natural water system, romantic garden into the community life. Learn from the royal gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the one hand, absorb the natural gardening techniques of Jiangnan gardens, and on the other hand continue to express strict etiquette and noble temperament.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 and finished in October 2020 in Tangshan, Hebei, China.
- Operation Flow
- The design respect not only historical landscapes, but also humanistic care. With culture as the canvas and design as the pen, Guomaofu combines the new Chinese-style oriental garden landscape of water, stone, forest, pine, book, tea and music to form a unique poetic landscape garden system. Creating a tourist, feasible, hopeful and livable landscape, as if through a thousand years, reproducing the wind of leisurely and natural life.
- Research
- Considering the overall adoption of the new Chinese style in the Guomaofu, the landscape design extracted a five-fold ritual sequence from the famous royal garden painting "A Wonderland on Fang-hu Island": Washing Dust, Entering Hall, Lake Pavilion, Visiting Garden, and Painting, planning the path home into five spatial levels, layer by layer. The deign creates a poetic and picturesque space with modern aesthetics, and injects a brand-new oriental style into the design.
- Inspiration
- The core idea of creating scenery in Guomaofu is to create a poetic and picturesque space, which injects a brand-new oriental style into the design and spreads the context of Chinese traditional aesthetics. Combine the natural landscape of famous mountains and rivers with the imperial palace with strict etiquette. Shows the cultural pursuit of modern Chinese residents who are "the great scenes are speechless and inconspicuous".
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021
Image #2: Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021
Image #3: Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021
Image #4: Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021
Image #5: Photographer Huang Pengcheng, Tangshan Guomaofu Residential Demonstration Landscape, 2021 - Patents
- Copyrights belong to U.P.Space Landscape Architecture Design Consultants Co.,Ltd, 2020.
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