Flanking the historic Jinniu Hotel and Tianfu Art Park, Guobin No.7 Residence has been one of our most high-calibre and efficiently delivered projects in recent years. Situated within the Jinniu Hotel character-protection zone, the development inherits an overarching planning vision of a “Shu-style scroll of western Sichuan courtyards, forests encircling water.” Building on this, the architecture proposes a clear ambition: “to live in a garden, where the residence itself becomes a garden.”

For the landscape, this sets precise yet demanding conditions. Under the dual premise of respecting traditional Sichuan courtyard character and positioning the project as a piece of urban ultra-luxury, our task is no longer simply to “decorate” the ground plane, but to ask: how can landscape negotiate between inherited form and contemporary desire? How can it honour local architectural lineage while generating new product value and new ways of living?

Finding innovative, playful landscape expressions and spatial experiences within this tension became the starting point of our design thinking.

The windmill-like, encircling layout of the buildings naturally choreographs the masterplan into a series of multiple courtyards, while opening up an unusually generous 30–50 metres of spacing between blocks. This urban porosity gives the landscape rare freedom to breathe.

Yet we never intended the landscape to remain a scene merely on the ground, to be looked down upon. Allowing greenery to infiltrate the architecture vertically—to seep through different floor levels—became the core concept and strategy of this design.

The buildings themselves are kept relatively low, giving trees and planting the chance to grow up to meet the window line. Forest, courtyard, and water are defined as the three primary landscape elements, and the view orientation of all 168 units is carefully considered within the landscape framework. By aligning topography with the anticipated height of tree canopies and layered planting, we craft precise view windows from each residence.

In this way, the landscape is composed as a continuous, richly textured ecological system, extending from the ground plane into the sky — a vertical garden tapestry that quietly threads itself into daily life.