Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area

Hu Sun's Times Mansion Residential Exhibition Area stands as a distinguished contribution to contemporary landscape architecture, demonstrating how the ancient traditions of contemplative garden design might be reinterpreted through modern materials and spatial sensibilities. The work engages with multiple design lineages simultaneously, evoking the meandering water gardens of classical traditions while employing the clean geometric vocabulary of modernist architecture, creating a dialogue between organic and constructed forms that feels both inevitable and surprising. The designer demonstrates exceptional command of material juxtaposition, setting pristine white concrete against the infinite variations of living green, allowing each to amplify the qualities of the other through contrast. The curvilinear pathway system suggests influence from the stroll garden tradition, where movement through space reveals sequential views and contemplative moments, yet the aerial perspective from which this documentation captures the design reveals an additional layer of compositional intelligence, the garden functioning equally as sculpture when viewed from above. The crescent viewing platform emerging over the dark water creates a moment of particular spatial poetry, offering inhabitants the experience of hovering between realms while remaining safely grounded. Plant material selection reveals sophisticated understanding of textural and chromatic layering, from the architectural mass of the large canopy tree to the precise geometry of clipped hedging to the soft informality of groundcover plantings. The work invites consideration of how gardens mediate between human desire for order and nature's tendency toward organic complexity, suggesting that the most resonant landscapes are those that honor both impulses simultaneously. What memories of water, shade, and sheltered spaces does this composition awaken in you?

When the designers first arrived at the site, they were enchanted by the goldenrain tree and camphor preserved there. They planned to reconstruct the site on the basis of preserving the original ecology. The overall design, such as space layout and flow line, kept away from the original trees; highlighted their values and gave them new lives. They strived to intervene in the site in a "humble" way and adapt to local conditions. They used trees to create a forest theater under the urban reinforced concrete.