Ruiyuan Mingjiahefu

Ruiyuan Mingjia Hefu, as an old city renovation project, centers on the concept of 'sewing together mountains and sea.' Vertically, it connects the natural ecology of Jiuding Mountain and Lotus Mountain, while horizontally, it weaves together the urban functions of Changjiang West Road and Fuchunjiang Road, linking the cultural nodes of China University of Petroleum and opening up the coastal landscape all the way to Tangdao Bay and even Niudao. By reconstructing the fragmented spatial order, it becomes a key transitional point connecting nature, academia, and coastal scenery, achieving a systematic restoration of the urban fabric.
The planning is centered on the concept of the 'Urban Green Valley,' creating a central axis—Nine-Curve Flower Street—that cascades down from Lotus Mountain. This winding ecological corridor flows like a stream from the mountains, traverses residential areas, and extends to commercial and office areas, achieving a continuous ecological infiltration from the mountain foothills to the urban core. Along the way, small scattered buildings act like pebbles by the stream, gracefully punctuating the landscape; on either side, taller building clusters resemble canyon rocks, enclosing an immersive visual experience.
The building forms interact with the surrounding mountains and sea. Naturally existing elements such as rivers, forests, streams, valleys, stones, and peaks—traditional themes in Chinese landscape painting—are transformed into conceptual design language applied to the architecture, creating a space that harmoniously transitions between high-density urban areas and natural landscapes. 'Shaped by mountains, framed by water' conveys the language of landscape painting into architectural symbols, corresponding to building forms, vertical spatial connections, and ascending green spaces, resembling both a landscape painting scroll and a set of green bonsai.