Jiangnan Flavor
Area: 950 sqm
This project was a collaboration between myself and Spring Breeze Design.
The site is an atrium space of a restaurant, with all original paving made of natural yellow rust stone slabs. The client's requirements include an outdoor seating area for approximately 20 tables and a central water feature. In the design, I preserved the old stone slabs under the dining tables, maintaining the traditional texture of the dining area. When arranging the outdoor seating, I concentrated the large dining tables on one side outside the indoor corridor to avoid blocking the view from the indoor dining space towards the stage.
The boundary between indoor and outdoor is blurred by large areas of high-transparency glass walls. When dining indoors, the view always penetrates the landscape, ultimately focusing on the central stage node. The preserved stage serves as a cultural carrier, bringing traditional performance forms and modern dining scenes together here.
The core landscape area consists of geometric pools, landscape stones, and pine trees. The water surface reflection extends the visual space, blending the rigidity of the architecture with the softness of water, while further highlighting the central position of the stage in the site.
Shaped pine trees act as the main characters in the plant space, echoing with naturally stacked landscape stones to outline a powerful skeleton; ground cover plants dot with elegant flowers, adding a soft atmosphere to the space. The ground uses fragmented stone paving, simulating traditional texture, forming a unified and coordinated tone with the preserved old stone slabs.
