Jianuo Xuan

Green Night

A personal landscape of rivers, floating gardens, and an elusive journey home.

Year
2025
My role
Environment design & visual storytelling
Context
Harvard GSD · VIS2475
Credits
Individual project
Green Night project overview

Home is a moment as much as a place.

Green Night grows out of childhood memories, dreams, and the landscape of a riverside hometown. A boat carrying plants, an expanse of green, and a sky filled with light become fragments of a world that is familiar but impossible to return to exactly.

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Memory becomes a landscape.

The project translates personal writing and visual studies into a game environment. Water, vegetation, floating structures, and changing light form a spatial narrative about homecoming. The environment is presented as a journey through atmosphere rather than a literal reconstruction of a place.

Starlight: a suspended garden and a ladder through the dark.
Starlight: a suspended garden and a ladder through the dark.
Boat study: a floating garden carrying a landscape.
Boat study: a floating garden carrying a landscape.
Early plan: house, path, garden, and boat.
Early plan: house, path, garden, and boat.
Looking up through a luminous green canopy.
Looking up through a luminous green canopy.
Spatial sketch: a floating form in a field of green.
Spatial sketch: a floating form in a field of green.
An early study of light within the landscape.
An early study of light within the landscape.

A fortress of solitude.

Developed in VIS2475: Fortress of Solitude at Harvard Graduate School of Design, spring 2025. Concept, environment, and narrative by Jianuo Xuan.

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