Viewing Pavilion on Hill / TAO - Trace Architecture Office

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Weihai, China

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  • Architect In Charge: Trace Architecture Office
  • Design Team: HUA Li, Jiang Nan, Yu Haiwen
  • Structural System: Reinforced concrete
  • City: Weihai
  • Country: China
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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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Address:Weihai, Shandong, China

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Cite: "Viewing Pavilion on Hill / TAO - Trace Architecture Office" 14 Jun 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/384470/viewing-pavilion-on-hilll-tao-trace-architecture-office> ISSN 0719-8884

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