The design took inspiration from the poetic beauty of the Song-style literati gardens to create a more concise modern design language for the residents to immerse themselves in the enjoyable and habitable beauty. Taking the essence of the traditional lanes, relying on the natural environment of mountains and rivers, Tianqingli is gradually developed through the courtyard cluster space, the street lane communication space, and the private space of the courtyard, which can better understand the soul-stirring of the thousand-year culture.

As one of the partners and design directors of the gad Xiamen branch, as well as a national first class registered architect and a first-line architect, Likun Shen has focused on urban planning and architecture design topics such as urban organic renewal, Chinese architecture construction and featured town (or ideal town) for many years and has made remarkable achievements in the research of the modernity and regionalism of modern residences.

About gad, as an atypical design studio born in the transformation of rapid development of Chinese architecture design revolution, gad now is one of the most influential design companies countrywide. Instead of mass production, gad would rather choose to slow down and search for the existing significance of every space. A group of energetic and thoughtful young people gather together here to give rise to tons of interesting and fresh ideas. Now gad cooperates with insightful proprietors from diverse fields like hotel design, housing design, theater design and so on to boost new ideas for architecture, which at the same time, encourages itself to step into a better design world.