LINJIANG LAKE VILLAGE

RESIDENTIAL, HOSPITALITY, CIVIC, COMMERCIAL, CULTURAL

Client Nanchong City
Location Nanchong, China
Program Master plan, lakeside commercial, housing, art exhibition center, parkland
Area 30,007 m² (322,917 ft²)
Status Competition, concept, first prize

A VILLAGE DRAWN FROM WATER AND HILLS

Linjiang Lake Village shapes a new lakeside district for Nanchong, where valleys, streams, a lake, and low hills become a sequence of shared spaces between the city and nature.

Part of the competition for Nanchong’s new Central Park along the Jialing River, the site lies where the new Linjiang district meets its green ridges. Rainwater already gathers in its valleys as streams and small lakes. Rather than building over this system, the plan connects it.

Existing streams and ponds are joined into a single water network, and the lake is widened and narrowed to follow the changing shape of the valleys. Soil excavated for the lake is placed close by, balancing cut and fill to form new hills, viewpoints, and a lake island that becomes the focus of the landscape.

Around the water, the village unfolds as three “living rooms” that move from city to nature. At the urban edge, a water street of shops, restaurants, and lakeside homes sits beneath undulating roofs that echo the surrounding hills and look across the Jialing River to the new city. At its center, a cultural landmark for art exhibitions is shaped as land art, the visual focus of the lake while merging into the ground. At the quietest edge, dwellings set among hills and forest keep the original terrain intact and host ecological education.

Connected by walking paths, light rail, and bus stops, and framed by forest, community, and waterfront green space, the village gathers everyday life, culture, and ecology around the lake it creates.

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