Contrasting light and dark, water and earth, Architects Landau International Design have created an inspired peaceful setting in Jiangsu, China.
Architects Landau International Design have created Suzhou Vanke Great Lake Park with an underlying reverence for closeness to nature. By using the existing calm lake, rolling hills and fog stretches, the design fuses these elements like a blanket in the shape of a landscape painting but with a modern twist, re-interpreting the traditional garden.
Inspired by IM Pei's Suzhou Museum, the space was interpreted borrowing the background of hidden spaces, scale, colour, and materials to suit the environment. The designer was also influenced by the Kunqu opera, "Mirror Flower Moonlight Dream," to reflect the surrounding environment like a mirror, with water reflecting the blue sky, the glass looking out to the mountains and rivers of Taihu Lake, and with pink walls enhanced with light and shadow.
The design was inspired by IM Pei's Suzhou Museum
This site has a special calming atmosphere, for adults and even children. Great Lake Park is a quiet oasis away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The solid concrete, brick and stone are activated by the dance of the ripples in the water of Lake Taihu, and the swaying branches of the trees. The light and shadow form elegant and ever-changing movement.
The verticality, enhanced by the 4.2metre-high corridor, uses semi-permeable U-glass to define the space, infusing light into the space. Drama has been created by contrasting white corridors with the black gravel composition on the ground. Peering down the white marble spaces, views of the mountains and rivers flow together, further blurring the corridor and its natural boundaries.
The architects hope to continue modernizing the regional cultural texture, keeping close contact with the natural way of life. Landscapes are the closest product of nature, and they coordinate and balance human activities in the natural space, thus creating a reasonable living language.
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