Aranya Jinshanling is located 120 kilometers away from Beijing, in Luanping County, Chengde City, in a valley surrounded by majestic mountains. The forest is a barrier to the outside world, and on the outskirts of the mountains is the Jinshanling Great Wall, which stretches deep into the Yanshan Mountain Range. The broken walls and weathered beacon towers provide another layer of protection for the land, and also give the village in the valley a solemn historical and humanistic flavor.

The layout of the project is in the shape of an enclosure, with the center town of apartments, hotels, owners' canteens and other buildings as the innermost enclosure, the villa area and spiritual space complexes on the outside of the center town constituting the second enclosure, and the mountains outside the buildings constituting the third enclosure. It is like a warm shelter for people to get peace of mind and body.

The landscape design area is all residential area, scattered in the valley or between the ridges, there are 15-30 meters of different degrees of height difference. Based on the premise of locality, low maintenance, cost control, accessibility and safety, the designer utilizes simple language, natural materials and local plants to create a community landscape space that is highly integrated with nature and architecture.

Inspired by the linear form of the Great Wall, the designers refined the lines to connect the core points of the site, extracted the spirit of the place with the beacon, and inherited the ancient and heavy material texture. Inspired by the linear form of the Great Wall, the designers refined the lines to connect the core points of the site, extracted the spirit of the place with the beacon, and inherited the ancient and heavy material texture. 

Part of the landscape wall is a continuation of the ancient Great Wall, simulating a rough and simple texture. The floor pavement continues the architectural color scheme, with stone and concrete as the continuation of the red-brick building structure. 

In the selection and layout of plants, the cold and long winter geography and climatic factors of Beijing's mountainous region are important prerequisites for the plant design of Jinshanling. We focus on the natural changes, so that the growth process of plants also becomes part of the landscape, increasing the interaction between man and nature.

▲树种选择以当地树种为主，地被层低维护，土壤自然裸露

During the three-year-long construction process, the plant designer conducted several small-scale plant tests to summarize the growth and survival density of plants over the winter, and selected low-temperature-resistant, ornamental, and low-maintenance plants, ultimately presenting the state of mountainous vegetation with a thin layer of groundcover and a part of the soil naturally exposed.

The slopes of the hills on the left and right sides of the site are large, making it easy to form seasonal catchment depressions. We re-combine the flood control system, using the ponds set between the topographic gullies to collect and intercept part of the rainwater through water storage, retention and infiltration to help the subsequent facilities of the staggered storage; secondly, the interceptor ditch can be utilized to collect rainwater from the terrain through the pipeline introduced into the rain garden, and overloaded rainwater discharged through the overflow wells of the rain garden into the flood control system.

Under the condition of meeting the volume of the rain garden, if there is still an excess portion of rainwater, it is pumped to the mountain for drip irrigation, utilizing plant consumption, surface evaporation, and soil infiltration. The rain garden reintegrates the terrain according to the direction of the stream, it solves the problem of water storage and accomplishes the gradual transition from natural to artificial.

The design of the functional public space is fully integrated with the daily needs of the community, including spaces for gathering, socializing, strolling, viewing, children's activities, etc. The design continues the simple language to shape the dynamic activities to stimulate the vitality of the community.

The largest activity area is located at the north boundary, beyond which is a steep and spectacular mountain cliff, so this space has the natural advantage of an elevated view, and we therefore present a landscape structure that combines the functions of observation, leisure, and personal companionship. The activity area is equipped with children's play equipment and parental care area, and leisure seating area, which is convenient for daily parent-child socialization.

▲儿童活动区平面图 / 手稿 / 模型

Another children's activity area is located in the sunken courtyard of the restaurant of the apartment group, which is a vertical passage connecting the upper and lower spaces, and at the same time, it is also an area for placing the large flue, air conditioner and heating equipment outside the restaurant. The design needs to solve three major problems here: up and down traffic flow; pipe wrapping and hiding; and implanting children's playfulness, finally creating a pink three-dimensional children's activity space that is very interesting to explore.

▲下沉庭院平面图 / 手稿  / 模型

The Jinshanling project is Ayanya's new exploration of living in the mountains, with the intention of creating a spiritual habitat in the valley. Landscape design does not pursue pure form, but creates a kind of field style where it originally grows, so that the landscape is integrated into nature and architecture in a silent way. In the nature of the valley, people can smell the gurgling streams, firewood collapse, birdsong, boiling, snow melting, and feel the power of nature.

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