YIHE Design Office is located in California, USA and Shanghai/Wuhan, China. It was founded in 2019 by the United States Registered Landscape Architecture (RLA) Chungpo Fang with co-owner Guansong.
Our firm’s 45 employees have backgrounds in landscape design, architecture, art, engineering, and ecology. YIHE offers extensive experience in designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts.
YIHE Design is committed to creating public spaces through science and art that resonate with art, refine the natural environment, promote social harmony and drive economic vitality through landscape architecture, planning and urban design. We seek to conceive, produce and build refined environments with our Clients to achieve sustainable development.
We believe that the design of the inspiration comes from the project itself, a design concept can be inspired by many factors, sometimes it’s from client’s corporate culture, sometimes it’s from surrounding city fabric, sometimes it’s from an urgent need to solve the ecological environment and sometimes it’s from the historical memory of the site itself.
Sustainable thinking is the foundation of our design. We identify, protect and reuse site resources to enhance the design. Bring down the energy consumption and minimize the damage to the environment.
We understand sometimes project has complex issues need other professionals to get involved. We bring extensive experience to lead and collaborate with consultants like water environment engineers, logo visual guidance consultants, artists, architects to complete the project.
The scale of the site, the aesthetics of space, the use of people and the attributes of eco-friendly is what we like to study. We are committed to seeking a balance, with a unified design language to integrate the needs of all aspects of the project. We think communication is the key to explore the potential and find the site spirit of the project itself with client through design process.
The good details must be relatively easy to achieve and sustainable construction details, while stand the test of time aesthetic. On-site cooperation and good communication is the key to the implementation stage of the project. Our team in China will continue the program phase of the effort to bring the best results for the project.
Landscape is a medium to bridge people to the environment, history, culture, and even memories of the resonance. It also can increase and promote the value to the site and its surrounding environment. We believe authentic should be the core of the design without unnecessary piling and symbols.
Chungpo Fang is a registered landscape architect of the United States, with the LEED certification and is member of ASLA. He has extensive experience ranging from large-scale mixed-use projects, urban complexes, office headquarters, landscape master planning, resort design, residential communities, waterfront open space to small-scale high-end villas, private homes and roof gardens. Mr. Fang has worked as a design director at the AECOM San Francisco office.
