Location:  Taizhou, Zhejiang
Interior Designer: Xiangyu Xie, Dongmei Wang, Shu Tang, Yancheng Wang, Qianlin You, Xuefang Zhu, Ru Xiao, Xiaowen Zhu, Changhua Wang

This project aims to create a new type of liveable community, a bearing platform for advanced modern urban development. It intends to comprehensively improve social grassroots services and governance, intensely promoting the progress of social civilization and cultural heritage development, and creating a vibrant and liveable place to attract innovative talents to reside here.

The project takes the people’s demand for a better life and delivers the vision of “homeowners have their personalized house” as the guide. The project locates in Taizhou, the centre of the north and south of Zhejiang Province. It is at the junction of land and sea. It is one of the 27 central cities in the Yangtze River Delta region, which has many harbours and shorelines and is the only pilot zone for economic development in the bay area of Zhejiang.

The design concept of “harmony” is infiltrated in Taizhou’s landscape, such as the soul and spirit of the mountain and sea, and gradually integrated into the bloodline. It influences people’s thinking and value orientation, becoming one of Taizhou’s city spirits. ‘Harmony’ has become a cultural symbol of Taizhou.

The design team extracts these local cultural elements and transmits the spirit of harmony into the space. When designing the plan’s circulation, the design considers the harmony of people and architecture first, and then the harmony of people and space, which are interrelated. Moreover, the design extracts the inspiration from the phoenix pattern and creates many shapes of curving lines throughout the project. In ancient mythology and legends, the phoenix is the bird of good luck. It is the most beautiful among all feathered insects and is the king of all birds.