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Peace Creek Villas in Chengdu
Homes in Chengdu, China – design by JFAK Architects
26 Jan 2017
Peace Creek Villas
Design: John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK Architects)
Location: Chengdu, China
Peace Creek Villas in Chengdu engage the landscape with organic forms, JFAK Architects creates new model for housing in Chengdu, China, and beyond

In a country known for massive housing blocks and residential environments that, as in many other cultures, rely on traditional architectural styles to attract the newly prosperous, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK) has created something unique: a peaceful, human-scaled neighborhood of single family detached houses that are completely contemporary in form and materials.
As part of a larger development called Luxe Lakes, the architects and their clients took the calculated risk to reject Western-based traditional architecture in favor of an aesthetic and design solution that would combine China?s longstanding respect for Nature with their own particular embrace of an aspirational future. The end result is a new prototype for middle to upper class single family dwellings in China and beyond.

Working within a constructed landscape in Chengdu?s rapidly growing ?suburbs? designed by two Los Angeles-based landscape designers, Fei Huang of Famous Gardens and Pamela Burton, JFAK created something unexpected. ?We wanted to offer a new kind of...