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Fujian Wuyi Mountain National Park Moon Bay Observation Deck / CLAB Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:00:00 +0000

Moon Bay Waterfall marks the threshold of Mount Wuyi National Park and is the first landscape encountered upon entering the park. In 2023, CLAB Architects was commissioned to construct a viewing platform at this site. The waterfall originates from an artificial dam built in 1979 for hydrological regulation. Crescent-shaped in plan, it lends Moon Bay its name. Over decades of interaction between human intervention and natural processes, the dam has been fully absorbed into its environment. Upstream, the water settles into a calm surface; downstream, erosion exposes massive river stones. Together, these elements form a place in the phenomenological sense—close to the ground, yet acting as a center that brings sky, mountain, and water into relation.

Noon Repose Pavilion / CLAB Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Background — The Noon Repose Pavilion is located on the bank of a rural river in Huizhou, a city in southern China, along the scenic route encircling Nankun Mountain and Luofu Mountain. Huizhou was once a place of exile for the Northern Song scholar Su Shi. During his years there, exile did not result in withdrawal from life, but rather intensified his attention to its everyday rhythms. In his writings, he identified what he called the "sixteen pleasures of life," one of which he described as "resting at noon on a simple rattan pillow." The pavilion takes its name from this phrase. It is not intended as a nostalgic reference, but as a way of anchoring contemporary experience to a different understanding of time—one that allows for pause, slackening, and repose. What is recalled here is not a historical figure, but a mode of living that remains possible in the present.

Construction Over Relics, A New Community Center of Lianhe Village / CLAB Architects

Andreas Luco — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Constructing over the relics - The project is located in a remote mountainous area called Lianhe Village, Panzhihua City; the building is a renovated and reconstructed structure from a disused village committee and primary school. Like most villages, Lianhe Village has inevitably suffered from the pain of hollowing out in the course of history. Upon arrival at the site, it seems as if time has stood still in the era of the previous village. The bustle of the village official's office and the reading of students are still vivid in my mind and ears, but the simple houses that have been in disrepair for years have become dangerous buildings. This seems to be a relic left behind by time, both materially and culturally. Our construction is carried out over this relic. In the context of the new rural revitalization initiative, this area will serve as the starting point for the local plan to create a "harmonious and beautiful countryside". It comprises four public spaces: a kitchen restaurant, a small local museum, an outdoor living room, and a library. These correspond to the architectural spaces of the former buildings, namely the teachers' dormitory, the village committee office, the villagers' grain drying yard, and the primary school classroom, which were arranged in a "three buildings, one dam" configuration.

The Nature Education Center of Tangjiahe / CLAB Architects

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Nature Education Center of Tangjiahe provides content for young families' natural study tours. Different from the type of school education, this building uses lifestyle and natural perception as the educational medium. Its public space includes a museum exhibition hall, multimedia classroom, natural-themed dining space (natural food education), and 9 guest rooms for study tours.

Innovative Lab of Architecture & Art / CLAB

Collin Chen — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The INNOVATIVE LAB of ARCHITECTURE & ART is CLAB’s new studio in Qionglai, Chengdu City, and it is a space built and operated by architects, artists, scientific research institute, and rural craftsmen. Its name reveals three, at least, experimental "spirits": the experiment of construction, the experiment of rural reform movement, and the innovation experiment of social relations.

The Heart Pavilion / CLAB

Collin Chen — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Like The Heart Archive, which is hidden in the woods by the sea, the artist hopes that the Heartbeat Museum will also be “hidden.” The site of the building is located on the side of the mountain in the canyon, and the architects sink the entire building into the mountain only through a curved road in the woods can you enter The Heart Pavilion. A road winding from the woods into the Heartbeat Museum, with the sound of synchronized ventricle heartbeats in the woods on both sides of the road.