antao: Winner of World Design Awards 2024. Yuehu Star is located in Wuzhong Taihu New Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which is a famous Jiangnan water town. Respecting the local culture, the demonstration area combines the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty with modern aesthetic demands, and seeks the philosophy of life that is only here in the heart. Respecting the texture of the site, the model area combines the vitality of the landscape with the beauty of luxury, where the fatigue of the city can be released.

We cherish the temperament of this city, and carefully feel the tone of Song-style charm, treating each space as a scene of artistic refinement, and kneading the lake, bay, mansion and courtyard into the space. The four courtyards and five spaces adopt the spatial method of opening and closing, moving step by step to create different themes of multiple courtyards, forming the central axis space of the home in the ritual order, and inheriting the ritual life with the spatial pattern.

‘Exploring multiple landscape space concepts with Song paintings, unfolding life scrolls by Taihu Lake with Song paintings’, elegance into paintings, creating landscape with paintings, collecting landscape elegance and life elegance, inheriting the peak life aesthetics of the Song realm, fulfilling the requirements of beauty and elegance in life, forming a contemporary and more pure spiritual home and life aesthetics and art centre, a place that offers A place that provides emotional value. Depicting the five scenes of ‘Boating On The River, Lucky Crane Tianchi Lake, Moonlight On The Pine Spring, Gathering In The Elegant Garden, Sitting In The Tea And Listening To The Rain’, it continues to write the Song Realm in Lake Bay.

Foreword-Thin Shadow Bamboo Path

The Bamboo Forest Path welcomes you with the secluded Bamboo Forest Path, which triggers the desire to explore, and the bamboo shadows leave the picturesque feeling. Walking in the elegant bamboo forest, you can feel the poetic feeling of Song Dynasty, and after arriving at the sales office, you can see the open courtyard of the building.

Chapter 01-Boating On The River

Through the quiet bamboo forest, the water feature is set up opposite, phoenix-tailed suspended fish, superimposed water and stone, embellishing the lakeside mansion, looking at the mansion, creating the first image of the space into the picture, the sense of sequence of the wall combined with the creation of forests and trees and luxury stone to enhance the sense of quality, and to emphases the rituals of returning home to the honourable experience.

Chapter 02-Lucky Crane Tianchi Lake

At first glance, it is a water carpet canvas derived from the facade to the ground, with water and light changing dynamically, tree shadows, curved sloped roofs that are light and dreamy, and smooth and rhythmic lines, demonstrating the elegant beauty of Song Dynasty gardens. The cranes dancing on the screen in the distance depicts the free state of mind of the celebrities and noble recluses. Wandering into the garden, pacing along the eaves eaves, trees, stones, water, corridors, pavilions, layer by layer, so that the landscape has a greater feasibility, so that the homecoming line rituals more rhythmic.

Chapter 03-Moonlight On The Pine Spring

With the transformation of space, a smart mountain scroll comes into view, the moon illuminates the pine, clear spring stone upper stream. Walk out of the elevator hall, through the cloister, and your vision is suddenly clear – a beautiful view of the back garden. Integrate the vitality of the landscape into the beauty of luxury, and the exhaustion of the city can be released here.

Chapter 04-Gathering In The Elegant Garden

Walk into the central garden, with the superposition of the space transformation function scene, the implantation of natural elements more feelings, the curved water, turfstone superimposed, sunlight, trees, wind and inner tacit understanding to create a life scene of integration with nature. Hongqiao flowing water, leisure gathering, add a point of elegance and interest to the dwelling.

Chapter 05-Sitting In The Tea And Listening To The Rain

The streams running slowly, the mountains and stones, cascading waterfalls, the Bridges outlined the Oriental artistic conception, sitting tea reading idle books, listening to the rain and watching the falling flowers. In the afternoon, reading, listening to the rain, cooking tea, feeling the years in the waterfront gallery, everywhere is artistic enjoyment, is a place for spiritual rest, to interpret the Oriental house in the contemporary context, to show the life aesthetics of the dripping, is also the taste of courtyard house life.

Conclusion With Song rhyme aesthetics as the foundation, it draws a volume of Oriental landscape elegant life picture scroll, inheriting the peak life aesthetics of Song Dynasty. Details everywhere interpretation of Song style national rhyme, Oriental aesthetics, elaborate and highlight the nature.

Project Details:-
Firm
antao

Architect
antao

Project Name
Suzhou Chinese Construction Third Engineering Bureau Ltd Wujiang City Investment · Yuehu Star Demonstration Zone

Project Category
Landscape Design Built

Team
Xia Liao, Yi Shui, Zhou Keyang, Zhu Qianying, Ai Liping, Zhu Jiacheng, Cao Zhe, Xie Yixian, Xiao Quan, Hong Jie, Jin Jingying, Zhong Yuan, Lian Peipei, Huang Lingling, Yang Jianbo

Project Location
Suzhou, Jiangsu Province

Country
China

Photography ©Credit
The Third Place

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