Changle Yasong is the first high-end residential community of the Song style in southwest China. It is located in Chongqing, a city with a steep terrain and surrounded by mountains and rivers.

This iconic natural scenery and traditional Chinese architectural style greatly complement each other. Instead of purely resembling the antique, Changle Yasong integrates traditional architectural aesthetics with modern esthetic demands, by extracting symbolic readability of traditional dwellings from the Song dynasty and re-translating them into modern architectural languages to bring a Song lifestyle into the contemporary through modern craftsmanship and custom design.

Most of traditional Chinese constructions are built on a continuous plot of land, yet a grid of urban roads runs through the site of this project and divides it into seven patches, which architects see as an innovative opportunity to incorporate geomorphic features into design, by managing to introduce a garden into each patch and to bring greenery to the city streets as well as the entire community. Architecturally, customized sunshade component system using gilded aluminum alloy to constitute a light and stretching system of the building façade. The roof ridge design eliminates the traditional hipped gable decoration, and is fully expressed in modern language.