Hope Town is located in Xianlin, Yuhang. Xianlin area is one of the most-developed residential areas in suburban Hangzhou. A lot of new communities are completed and delivered to the market at almost the same time. Under such pressure, most projects are positioned at medium price level. Such a choice caused those residential communities to suffer from a homogeneity problem. It was under such a competitive background when the Hope Town project was initiated.

Hope Town project is composed of four blocks of land. They are both independent and inter-connected. With a total GFA of 1,200,000 M2, it is also one of the biggest real estate development projects in Xianlin, Yuhang. The project's first phase is on the south east block. It includes both low-rise and high-rise residential buildings. When the project started, it was positioned at a medium price level. But at the same time, it was supposed to draw a difference from the Osmanthus City project, which is also located at West Hangzhou. While there is not much room to upgrade materials and techniques, we try to make the difference by changing the combined proportion of elevation materials. Therefore, during the Hope Town first phase, simple bricks are used for the elevation of low-rise buildings and coatings are chosen for the elevation of high-rise buildings. Based on these materials, we choose different ways to design the building elevation. Especially for low-rise buildings, we tend to seek the relationship between the simple brick style, the style of the 1920s-1930s when western architectural style came into China, and the style of the 1950s when Soviet style architectures came into China. We take the club house and two high-rise buildings as a whole. With different design approaches, exterior decoration strength and color scheme, they become the mainframe of the community. The wholeness of the community is achieved through the control power of core architectures.