Suzhou Greentown Peach Blossom Garden Details

If you can come to the site of Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown, you will find that everyone who works in the hot sun, in the shed and among the trees is a senior craftsman over 45 years old with more than 20 years' experience. Under their hands, more than a dozen gardens in Suzhou and hundreds of historic sites in China have been restored, and their tiles, rockeries, flower street floors and painted colors have been used in top hotels, clubs and scenic spots in China.

However, they are still not the highest controllers of the detailed description of the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown. Their master is a national treasure and has the title of "inheritor of intangible cultural heritage". It is these old people who have inherited China's thousand-year-old context who are sketching out the Peach Blossom Garden with one stone, one tile, one grass and one tree. Among the traditional techniques of beauty backrest, the highest specification is the curved rod backrest with cross pattern, which is found in four famous gardens in China. However, Greentown Design Institute searched all over China for gardeners, only to find that this traditional craft of relying on beauty has been lost. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to cross each wooden fence with the same curved surface angle and regular wooden fence pattern on the curved back.

Greentown Design Institute didn't give up. Since modern gardeners are hard to achieve, can the masters of traditional wooden furniture reproduce this lost process? Therefore, after visiting dozens of famous wooden furniture manufacturers in China, Greentown finally found a craftsman who can realize this craft. Just because each process is too complicated, it usually takes one craftsman's work, and now it takes five craftsmen to complete it. It took so much labor, time and energy just to make this most exquisite and precious craft reappear in the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown.

Every rockery in the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown is built by Yuan, a famous rockery traditional craftsman, and his disciples. The piling of rockeries needs to consider the aesthetic feeling from all angles, and the relationship with trees, flower windows and buildings needs to be "beautiful, wrinkled, thin and transparent". The requirements of the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown have exceeded the standards of Suzhou gardens, and every rockery in the Peach Blossom Garden can rival the royal gardens in the Forbidden City. Long windows are called floor-to-ceiling windows in modern times, which combine doors and windows into one, so that the living room and courtyard can be integrated to the greatest extent. Long windows play an important role in traditional houses in China, and almost all ancient buildings adopt long windows. There are many forms of long windows, such as palace-style, sunflower-style, book column mosaic, tic-tac-toe mosaic, cross-shaped long window, etc ... How to choose the best window from them makes Greentown designers rack their brains. In the end, Greentown made more than a dozen long wooden windows, and made a detailed comparison on each line and surface in the garden building model, and finally chose the most suitable long window form for Greentown Peach Blossom Garden.

However, after the form was determined, there were also many difficulties in production. First of all, the long window form chosen by Greentown Peach Blossom Garden completely follows the traditional system, and the process is complex, and all manufacturers have no ready-made tools. To this end, the manufacturer specially customized several sets of professional knives according to the records of ancient books, and the cost of knives alone reached tens of thousands of yuan.

The design of Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown is all-wood design, and the grille is detachable as a whole, which has better air permeability and sound insulation. However, such a design requires manufacturers to re-open the mold and skilled craftsmen to polish it. In the whole production process, only about 30% processes can be replaced by machinery, and the remaining 70% processes need skilled craftsmen to cut. So it is also the wooden long window with the highest cost and specification in China.

Greentown Peach Blossom Garden has a long window, the highest in China is 2.5 meters, which is exquisite and elegant. China is only as high as Zhongnanhai and the only villa in China. The height of 2.5 meters is not a numerical expansion. The higher the height of the door leaf, the more it affects its stability. The technical requirements are high, the product nodes need to be redeveloped, and the processing is difficult and the cycle is long. In order to reach this scale, stronger wood and more durable hardware are needed. After several precious wood experiments, Greentown Design Institute finally chose one of the three precious tree species in Northeast China, the top Juglans mandshurica, which is as famous as ebony. This kind of wood has high hardness and elegant color, which is the best material to realize this kind of long window. In the choice of hardware, the imported hardware with a cost about 30% higher than that of ordinary high-end hardware is selected, which ensures the smoothness and durability of the long window opening and closing. Imported teak is widely used in the buildings and gardens of Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown, whether it is decorative wood or wooden structure of pavilions and corridors. Wood is the most used decorative material in Suzhou gardens. The traditional gardens in Suzhou use Metasequoia glyptostroboides as the wood structure. Although Metasequoia glyptostroboides can also be used in Greentown Peach Blossom Garden, the pursuit of the ultimate attitude made Greentown Peach Blossom Garden finally choose the more expensive golden teak. Top-grade gold teak can still keep its shape without cracking under the conditions of great changes in humidity such as sun and rain, which is incomparable to Metasequoia. Especially in the rainy south of the Yangtze River, the water resistance of Jinyou is more obvious.

In addition, golden teak is not easy to burn and has strong fire resistance. The hardness of wood itself makes it resistant to termites and extremely non-perishable. Gold teak is fine in texture and painted directly on wood, with natural and exquisite texture. Because Metasequoia glyptostroboides is easy to crack, the traditional method is to color the bread gauze outside Metasequoia glyptostroboides, which can not show the natural texture. At the same time, golden teak has good drying performance, good adhesion, painting and waxing performance and good nail holding power, which can be said to be the best choice for all aspects of building materials.

So why do only a few royal gardens choose golden teak? It turns out that gold teak contains silicon, which is very easy to dull, so it is difficult to cut when processing, which is labor-consuming and time-consuming. Although the cost is high, many garden owners rarely choose this precious wood because it is difficult to find suitable craftsmen or because of the inconvenience of construction period. Therefore, the buildings and gardens made of gold teak can be said to be rare.

Hanging is a very important decorative element in Soviet-style garden architecture. It is a hollow pattern made of wood strips and hung under purlins between columns. Hanging style can be divided into rattan and Wan Chuan, Wan Chuan can be divided into palace style and sunflower style, and can be further divided into ice crack, Wan Ziwen, etc. The details are different. Greentown's design team visited dozens of famous Soviet-style gardens, compared each hanging style one by one, and invited craftsmen to build it separately and put it in the real-life model of the garden.

Among the many ornaments, which one is the most in line with the style of Suzhou gardens, the purest and the most primitive? After several rounds of discussion and research, I finally chose the swastika pattern commonly used in ancient famous houses. However, it is not enough to just choose the hanging type. Greentown needs to readjust the length, width and height of each hanging pole according to the width and height of each building to make it the most elegant and beautiful visually. Flower street pavement is the place that can best reflect whether a garden is the ultimate. In Suzhou gardens, flower street paving is a very particular and time-consuming process. It is necessary to carefully design the pattern, color and layout of pebbles. However, in contemporary times, many new Chinese-style projects ignore the details of flower street laying. For Greentown, it is a place that ordinary people will ignore, such as Huajie Building, which can better reflect the artistic conception and charm of Chinese villas and show the cultural charm of Chinese villas.

Therefore, Greentown Peach Blossom Garden not only invites Gu, a well-known domestic flower street paving technology expert, to personally plan and design the specifications and styles of flower street paving, but also strives for perfection in every process. In the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown, each pebble is 8 8- 10/0cm long and 2-3cm wide, thus forming a regular visual effect. Considering that the traditional Suzhou garden floors are all paved with blue bricks, which have large cracks and are easy to crack, and there will be moss after a long time, which is not suitable for the living needs of modern people, we decided to use more expensive imitation brick marble to pave the floor, so that the visual effect is more perfect.

In addition, all kinds of stone components in the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown have been carefully created by designers, and the most China-style China gray is selected as the main color. Handmade by Suzhou traditional masons. On the main road of the residential area, the ground of Greentown Peach Blossom Garden is paved with granite such as China black and bluestone, and the thickness of granite is 5cm, which is more than 2cm common in general projects. Each granite has the same size and is paved with the most exquisite technology. There is no error in the joints and no half brick. Regardless of the cost, Greentown Peach Blossom Garden uses more expensive stone materials to ensure that there will be no "missing corner" phenomenon of traditional bricks, which greatly increases the sense of quality and inheritance of the building. In order to better build and create buildings that are more suitable for modern architectural features and have a longer service life, the design institute of Greentown has carried out new research and development on a large number of traditional crafts on the basis of ensuring their original appearance. Traditional crafts span thousands of years and naturally have the purest and most essential cultural heritage. However, limited by the times, many traditional processes still have room for improvement. To this end, Greentown undertook the responsibility of saving culture and carrying forward tradition, and systematically sorted out and improved many nearly lost crafts.

In the process of ceramic tile carving, traditional craftsmen usually rely on experience and carve directly on raw materials without drawing drawings. However, this process can't guarantee systematic construction, and the quality of ceramic tile carving can't be measured statistically. To this end, Greentown designers specially discuss and study with old craftsmen. After several discussions, they finally spent a lot of money to draw all the sculptures into pictures to ensure the exquisite unity of each tile.

On the facade of the building, the traditional building itself is completely wooden. However, this kind of building has many defects: short building life, poor earthquake resistance, easy to be corroded by insects and easy to cause fires. How can we not only retain the China charm of traditional wooden buildings, but also increase the inheritance of the buildings themselves? Through dozens of rounds of scheme adjustment, Greentown has established the way of taking concrete as the inner material and logs as the outer material. The most difficult thing is to make the building completely conform to the shape of traditional ancient buildings in appearance through the use of logs, and at the same time avoid the disadvantages of wooden structures. Every time the scheme is adjusted, the designer will spend several weeks, often staying up all night. Entrance Zelkova schneideriana: DBH of both Zelkova schneideriana trees is above 625px, and the tree shapes are symmetrical and similar. This tree is 80 years old and very rare. Greentown Peach Blossom Garden visited the whole country eight times before it was purchased at a high price.

Imported black pine: the black pine distributed in the living room is imported from Japan, and the daily maintenance cost is extremely high. Only Greentown Peach Blossom Garden can match it.

Lagerstroemia speciosa: In the choice of bonsai, Greentown Peach Blossom Garden visited major bonsai centers in China, and finally selected Lagerstroemia speciosa which is most suitable for China gardens as an important ornamental tree species in the courtyard.

Five-layer vertical greening system in four seasons: Greentown Peach Blossom Garden has built a five-layer vertical greening system of big trees, small trees, shrubs, flowers and lawns, and evergreen trees are combined with colorful trees. Flowers of different tree species bloom at the right time, and they will present completely different color landscapes in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Since Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China has formed a culture of enclosing courtyards. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the rise of pastoral culture and the retreat of a large number of literati, the courtyard part of the garden was greatly developed, and the aesthetic thought and cultural atmosphere of China gardens were formally established. Courtyard is the essence of China architecture. This solitary space surrounded by houses, walls, pavilions and pavilions can create a quiet, comfortable and isolated living environment and bring a sense of security and privacy to the owner of the room. It can be said that only in the courtyard of the villa can we find the true meaning of villa life.

In the relationship between the courtyard and the living room, the Peach Blossom Garden in Greentown uses a lot of gray space, forming a natural transition between the courtyard and the external space. Different courtyards of each villa contrast, continue and penetrate each other, and through the participation of people, an unusual sense of space is produced. Private courtyards also use the technique of "borrowing skillfully", and special doors and windows are like picture frames to introduce the scenery in the courtyard into the room.

When you pass the stone drum, push open the door, cross the corridor and enter the courtyard with pools, mountains, pavilions and trees, you will suddenly become gentle and calm at that moment, and no matter how many worldly things can disturb your mind, a feeling of "home" arises spontaneously. This strong sense of belonging to "home" is an irreplaceable aspect of Chinese courtyards and the most nostalgic place of Jiangnan culture.