Viewing Pavilion on Hill / TAO - Trace Architecture Office

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• Architects

  TAO - Trace Architecture Office

• Location

  Weihai, Shandong, China

• Architect in Charge

  Trace Architecture Office

• Design Team

  HUA Li, Jiang Nan, Yu Haiwen

• Area

  256.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2012

+ 45

• Construction

  Weihai Construction Group Inc

• Structural System

  Reinforced concrete

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Text description provided by the architects. The pavilion is located in woods on the hill of TashanPark in Weihai, a coastline city in Shandong. To protect the trees in site and offer the view to major sights of city, the building is conceived as a merged volume with three viewing tubes like tree branches orientating to different axis.

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Half buried and half cantilevered, the building provides to the visitor different experience on two levels: walking down half level, one will enter the inside of teahouse and gallery space with framed views to various scenery; walking up through the preserved trees in landscape to the roof terrace, one will enjoy a unfolded breathtaking panoramic view to the ocean on this viewing platform.

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