For as long as humans have shaped the land around their dwellings, they have faced the quiet tension between comfort, beauty, movement, and life — goals that rarely align without sacrifice. A research team in China has now built a machine learning framework that generates and evaluates hundreds of residential landscape designs in seconds, surfacing the configurations that best balance microclimate, aesthetics, accessibility, and ecology simultaneously. Tested across three Changsha neighborhoods, the system outperformed professional human benchmarks by 6.2 percent on composite measures, not by