IDPA Japan Design Award

Silk Stone Garden Villa

by Liu Zhanping

Project Description

Silk Stone Garden Villa is a private residential project that reinterprets luxury living through the fusion of Eastern garden philosophy, Mediterranean light, organic materiality, and contemporary art. Rather than presenting luxury as decoration or visual excess, the project proposes a quieter and more enduring form of refinement: a home shaped by water, stone, silk, shadow, and ritual.
The core concept of the project is “a private art villa organized around a living courtyard.”
The central courtyard is not treated as a decorative landscape, but as the emotional and spatial heart of the residence. Water reflects the sky, stone anchors the ground, trees bring time into the space, and silk-like screens create soft boundaries between openness and privacy.
The first is the spatial wisdom of Eastern gardens: framed views, borrowed scenery, gradual revelation, water reflection, and the poetic relationship between architecture and nature.
The second is Mediterranean architecture: thick walls, warm stone, arches, shaded corridors, and the emotional beauty of sunlight moving across textured surfaces.
The third is the atmosphere of a contemporary private gallery: restrained composition, sculptural furniture, quiet walls, collected objects, and art integrated into everyday living.
The spatial journey begins with a quiet stone corridor. Visitors enter through a compressed threshold before the space gradually opens toward the central water courtyard. This sequence creates a transition from the outside world into a calm inner sanctuary.
The living room opens fully toward the courtyard, allowing water, tree shadows, silk curtains, and architectural arches to become part of everyday life. The dining room faces the courtyard as a ceremonial space for gathering. The tea room uses low seating and framed garden views to create a slower, more contemplative rhythm. The master bedroom and bathroom are connected to private garden views, turning rest and bathing into intimate rituals.

Liu Zhanping

Liu Zhanping
Mr. Liu Zhanping has been deeply engaged in the fields of high-end residential spaces and decorative design for over a decade. He has long specialized in the spatial planning, design development, and final delivery of villas, luxury estates, large flat apartments, duplexes, self-built courtyards, and premium private residences.
Unlike designers who focus solely on conceptual schemes, Mr. Liu combines aesthetic judgment with construction logic, material control, and on-site coordination. This comprehensive skill set allows him to translate clients’ lifestyles, family structures, collection preferences, and long-term living needs into spatial systems that are practical to construct, easy to maintain, and exude a sense of premium quality.
His design philosophy emphasizes spatial order, proportional relationships, material layering, and residential comfort, ultimately pursuing a low-key, restrained, and enduringly elegant luxury aesthetic.

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