YIFANG Art Center serves as future One Sino Park Community Center for both everyday and event-based uses including a clubhouse, an indoor pool on the first floor; community amenities like gym and café on the second and third floor; a small art gallery on the fourth floor. Main entrance is located on the third floor. A one hectare garden is located next to the building will be an adaptable and innovative gathering space for those who work, reside in, or visit One Sino Park and its neighborhood.

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The garden’s design borrows from traditional Chinese garden design philosophy. A series of walls creates different “rooms“ to promote effect like “denial and reward”, “hide and seek”, “seeing and being seen” and “borrow views”.

The design of the landscape wall maximizes the experience of the space. The height of the wall forms the sense of “hidden” of the space. The “revealed “surprise is experienced through the idea of “seeing and being seen “from traditional Chinese garden theory. The combination of sight and movement encourages visitors to explore and interact with the space and other visitors.

The canopy walkway provides shades in summer and gently captures the changes in light and shadow during the day, reflection of the light and water ripples. The genuine color and texture of the stone warms the space while also balances the green of the vegetation, the gray of the river wave, the white if the fence and the blue of the sky. As Such, the YIFANG Community Art Center will serve as the centerpiece and public-space precedent for a highly sustainable, mixed-use community.