Sunac Wealth Mansion
Sunac Wealth Mansion is located in the Qianjiang district which is significant within the city of Hangzhou because it offers a space for contemporary place making. This site offers a new paradigm and a new direction for the city, rather than falling back on traditional design frameworks. The architectural typology of Sunac Wealth Mansion is distinct from many surrounding developments, and this gave us the inspiration for a landscape that responds to the architecture. We decided to respond to this site by creating a landscape where inside and outside blur. This involves careful design to facilitate a landscape that offers privacy as well as more open communal or group facilities. Landscape combined this dynamic with cultural reference to the flowing lines of the calligraphic brushstroke. These lines capture the movement and grace of Chinese calligraphy whilst also representing the movement of people in terms of growing up and moving outwards from the home into wider society.