GARDEN 19

Lead Designers Li Yang

Entry Description

Garden19, Xiankun Garden is nestled on Jiangxinzhou Island along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, covering an area of approximately 20,097 square meters. The site’s original ecological foundation is characterized by forests and islands. The landscape design integrates natural elements including forest, woods, water, and stone, constructing an artistic space that seamlessly blends with nature and the city through a minimalist and restrained design approach. The lighting design echoes the modern minimalist artistic style of the landscape, with the design theme of “island sanctuary.” The lighting design seeks to evoke emotional responses to the spatial environment, demonstrate the ingenious harmony between residential and natural environments, and elevate the value of the space. The design features a progressive, multi-tiered lighting system and self-developed technological innovations to achieve a balance between enhancing the artistic experience of the landscape and preserving energy efficiency. It portrays a future island living scenario that is comfortable, relaxed, and elegantly refined, enriching the sensory dimensions of the experience.
The lighting design breaks through the traditional functional-oriented mindset of landscape lighting, pioneering the “Emotional Luminosity Gradient Method.”Guiding emotional shifts through the transformation of light.

Sustainability Approach

The design employs an intelligent lighting timing system to establish a dynamic mapping model between residential behavior and the lighting environment:
18:00–20:00: 100% brightness mode (50–80 lux)
20:00–22:00: 55% brightness mode (20–50 lux)
22:00–06:00: 10% moonlight mode (5–10 lux)
This achieves approximately 50% energy savings
The project is adjacent to a river ecological zone. The design employs measures including brightness gradient attenuation, spectral purification filtering, and equipment-controlled lighting to establish a 15-meter buffer light zone along the river boundary. Within the site, a brightness gradient transition from 50 lux to 3 lux is achieved along the riverbank using an exponential decay curve.Additionally, honeycomb anti-glare grilles (UGR < 14) are installed to reduce light intrusion in the river area to 0.9 cd/m²(82% below the national standard limit).