Living Habitats -Thé Puyuan by JTL Studio Singapore

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JTL Studio 新加坡：本案位于上海虹口核心区域，一座现代都会的繁华腹地。我们选择与自然共居——在都市的经纬之中，与自然重建联结。我们尝试依托连绵起伏的地形与蜿蜒静谧的溪流，将自然重新编织进都市的肌理。这里不是对山野的简单模仿，以地形、植被、水体与路径为笔触的深层叙事，在“都市山林”里，塑造一个极简、静谧、却充满内在能量的居住场域。

JTL Studio：Located in the core of Hongkou District, Shanghai, the project sits within the vibrant heart of a modern metropolis.We choose to coexist with nature — to re-establish a connection with the natural world within the urban grid.Through undulating landforms and meandering, tranquil streams, we seek to weave nature back into the fabric of the city.Rather than a simple imitation of wilderness, the project constructs a deeper narrative, using topography, vegetation, water and pathways as its fundamental design language.Within this “urban forest”, a minimalist and contemplative living environment emerges — restrained in form, yet rich in inner vitality.

入世 · 精神阈限

Threshold · A Spiritual Passage

设计希望通过严谨的轴线序列与仪式性的尺度控制，实现从城市空间到自然场所的过渡。以超 80 米连续的折叠感韵律感门廊，贯通东侧的花园界面，配合拾级而上的隐秘门庭、两侧对称的仪式水景与酒店式环岛动线形成极具包裹感的到达体验。

The design seeks to establish a transition from the urban realm to a natural sanctuary through a rigorous axial sequence and ceremonial control of scale.An over-80-metre-long continuous folded colonnade forms a rhythmic spatial gesture along the eastern garden frontage. Together with a stepped and concealed entrance, symmetrical ceremonial water features, and a hotel-like looped arrival sequence, it creates a deeply immersive and enveloping arrival experience.

建筑门廊以水平向的宏大尺度，在竖向与横向维度共同界定出一处具有强烈归属感的过渡空间。这种空间序列的本质是通过尺度、材质与植被的精准控制，完成从公共领域到私属领域的心理转换。

穿越这个界面的过程，意味着视觉焦点从城市肌理转向自然元素，听觉环境从交通噪声过渡到水体律动，为后续与自然深度交互的体验建立了必要的感知准备状态。

Defined by its monumental horizontal scale, the architectural portico establishes a transitional domain articulated simultaneously in both vertical and horizontal dimensions, generating a strong sense of spatial belonging.At its core, this spatial sequence operates through the precise orchestration of scale, materiality and planting, enabling a psychological transformation from public territory to private realm.

To pass through this threshold is to experience a gradual shift in perception — where visual focus moves from the urban fabric toward natural elements, and auditory conditions transition from traffic noise to the rhythmic presence of water.This sensory recalibration prepares the mind and body for a deeper engagement with nature beyond.

融境· 自然容器

Immersion · The Natural Vessel

穿过门头，约 14 米的建筑挑空将视线向下引——一处约 7 米高差的立体下沉庭院豁然呈现。作为“璞系”产品“东方韵”的当代诠释，这片庭院以现代手法转译传统园林智慧，将山川溪谷与森林凝练于一园。

因建筑采用全架空层设计，俯瞰时形成三角形的视野通廊。从室内任一角度向外望去，谷地花园的景观皆如一幅流动的立体长卷，真正实现了“景随人移，目之所及皆成画”。

Passing through the entrance canopy, a 14-metre-high architectural void draws the gaze downward — revealing a dramatic three-dimensional sunken courtyard with a vertical difference of approximately seven metres.As a contemporary interpretation of the “Oriental Rhythm” within the Pure Series product line, this courtyard translates traditional garden wisdom through modern design language, condensing mountains, valleys and forests into a single spatial composition.

Due to the building’s fully elevated ground floor, a triangular visual corridor is formed when viewed from above.From any interior vantage point, the valley garden unfolds like a flowing three-dimensional scroll painting, truly realizing the classical spatial ideal: “the scenery shifts with one’s movement, and wherever the eye rests becomes a living painting.”

约 7 米的谷地花园，创造了强烈的“进入感”与“包裹感”。下沉庭院不再是普通的地下空间，而是通过叠级水景（如林隐溪畔）、悬浮茶室、苔藓森林的层层渗透，形成一个向中心汇聚、静谧深邃的“自然容器”。

空间以小见大，层次丰富。设计运用“对景”手法：悬浮茶室与对岸休息区互为画面，形成视线与功能的呼应；“障景”与“隔景”则巧妙地控制游览节奏——例如从阶梯下行至水景的路径，通过适度遮挡，在转折处营造“柳暗花明”的发现之趣。每一步行走，皆是在设计师精心编排的序列中，遇见意料之外的自然片段。

With a depth of approximately seven metres, the valley garden generates a strong sense of immersion and enclosure.The sunken courtyard is no longer perceived as a conventional underground space, but rather, through layered water features (such as forest streams), a floating teahouse and a moss woodland, it becomes a quiet, centripetal “natural vessel” that converges toward its core.

The spatial experience is intimate yet expansive, restrained in scale yet rich in layers.Traditional garden techniques are reinterpreted through “borrowed views”: the floating teahouse and the opposite resting terrace frame each other as reciprocal visual compositions, creating a dialogue between sightlines and functions.“Screened views” and “filtered views” subtly regulate the rhythm of movement — for instance, along the descending path toward the water, partial visual obstruction generates moments of surprise and discovery at turning points, evoking the poetic sequence of “a hidden turn revealing a sudden clearing.”Every step becomes part of a carefully choreographed spatial narrative, where unexpected fragments of nature unfold through deliberate design.

在竖向组织上，设计采用台地化的分层策略，将景观功能分布于不同标高。珐琅阶梯作为连接各层的关键要素，其材质选择与踏面比例均经过精心考量，在解决高差问题的同时，通过行进节奏的控制强化了空间体验的仪式性。

建筑与景观的界面关系在此被重新定义。15 米超尺度架空层的设置，使下沉庭院与建筑室内空间形成了垂直向的视觉贯通,自然要素得以向建筑内部渗透，建筑空间也向外延展，最终形成相互嵌入的有机整体。

Vertically, the landscape adopts a terraced sectional strategy, distributing functions across multiple levels.The enamel-finished stair becomes a key connective element: its materiality and tread proportions are precisely calibrated, resolving height differences while reinforcing the ceremonial rhythm of movement.

Here, the interface between architecture and landscape is redefined.A 15-metre-high elevated ground floor enables visual continuity between the sunken garden and interior spaces, allowing natural elements to penetrate inward while architectural space extends outward, ultimately forming an organically interwoven whole.

视觉被地被的浓郁绿意、石材的湿润光泽所抚慰；听觉被溪水跌宕、叶片摩挲的细微声响所充盈；触觉则可能在与粗糙山石、柔软蕨叶的不经意接触中被唤醒。植物配置构建一个从高大乔木到地表地被的、完整而富有生命感的拟森林群落，让四季更迭在此拥有清晰的痕迹。

The senses are gently activated:vision is soothed by dense groundcover greens and the moist sheen of stone surfaces;hearing is enriched by cascading water and the subtle rustling of leaves;touch is awakened through incidental contact with rugged rock textures and soft fern foliage. Planting establishes a complete, forest-like ecological structure — from towering canopy trees to layered understory and groundcover — allowing the passage of seasons to leave tangible traces within the site.

共居·有组织的空性

Coexistence · Organised Emptiness

金茂虹口示范区的共居自然，追求”有组织的空性”，在城市中心创造出一处能够安顿身心的“山林栖居地”。这种设计策略并非追求视觉上的繁复或形式上的张扬，希望有更多精准的空间留白与要素组织，为自然过程的自我表达与人的深度体验创造可能。

The concept of coexisting with nature at the Jinmao Hongkou Demonstration Area seeks to explore a state of “organised emptiness”, creating a mountain forest sanctuary within the urban core — a place capable of accommodating both body and mind.Rather than pursuing visual complexity or formal spectacle, this design strategy emphasizes precise spatial restraint and deliberate organisation of elements, allowing natural processes to express themselves and human experience to deepen.

这体现在三个层面：一是要素的精确选择，每一处水景形态、每一株乔木定位、每一组石材铺砌均经反复推敲，使自然元素得以本质呈现；二是界面的模糊处理，通过水流渗透、植被蔓延与材质过渡，打破景观与建筑、硬质与软质、人工与自然的传统界限；三是时间的维度引入，设计预见植被生长、石材风化、水渍沉积等自然过程的变化，使场所具备持续演化的生命感。

我们希望，有限的物质要素将在自然过程的参与下，激发出无限的空间体验与精神共鸣。在上海虹口这片土地上，无论城市灯火如何流转，金茂虹口示范区正以“共居自然”为脉络，构建一座可沉浸的台地山林。当冬意渐褪，春讯将至，我们在这方与自然交织的天地里，让自然成为日常的底色，让诗意在每一次驻足与行走中，静静生长。

This approach operates on three levels.First, the precision of elements: every water feature, every tree placement, and every stone composition has been carefully studied and refined, enabling natural elements to appear in their essential form.Second, the blurring of boundaries: through water infiltration, plant migration and material transitions, conventional distinctions between landscape and architecture, hardscape and softscape, artificial and natural are gently dissolved.Third, the introduction of time: the design anticipates processes such as plant growth, stone weathering and water sedimentation, allowing the site to evolve continuously and cultivating a living sense of temporality.

We believe that limited physical elements, when engaged with natural processes, can generate infinite spatial experiences and spiritual resonance.On this land in Hongkou, Shanghai — regardless of how the city lights shift and flow — Jinmao Hongkou continues to construct an immersive terraced mountain forest, guided by the ethos of coexisting with nature.As winter gradually recedes and spring approaches, within this woven realm of city and landscape, nature becomes the everyday backdrop, and poetry quietly grows with every pause and every step.