Anji Sight-viewing Platform and Tea House

Anji, Zhejiang

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Hospitality

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Introduction

Anji, known as the "Back Garden of Shanghai", is rich in natural resources. This project is located in the core area of Anji White Tea Town. The design scope includes a viewing platform and a tea room with both tea viewing and tea tasting functions. We aim to create a poetic and natural complex space with display, memorial and reception at the same time.  
The winding landscape trail leads to the viewing platform located at the commanding height of the hillside. Both the east and west directions are boundless views of tea fields. The local abundance of white tea leaves enables the villagers to lead a prosperous life. Therefore, we take "a leaf" as the overall concept, and express the important meaning of "A leaf enriches the people" through design, while accommodating deep local emotional sustenance.  
The two pavilions on the platform are constructed with local bamboo and wood, and the sustainability of the construction is realized with traditional materials. The curved bamboo creates a light and agile effect, like a "leaf" falling on the tea field, meanwhile "hiding" the building in the nature. The other pavilion is separable with disassembly, meeting the needs of different activities.  
The design of the tea room embeds the entire building in the tea field, forming steps through tiny shaping, echoing the terraced landscape, and transforming the building itself into the object of the landscape, realizing the organic connection between man and nature. The design of the tea room embeds the entire building in the tea field, forming steps through tiny shaping, echoing the terraced landscape, and transforming the building itself into the object of the landscape, realizing the organic connection between man and nature. At the same time, the tea room formed by the roof ladder is partially hollowed to introduce the skylight into the space, and the entire wall of the window is opened to maximize the view of the ten thousand acres of tea fields.  
While satisfying the function of activities, all the designs weaken the sense of existence of the building through material selection and shape shaping, so as to have continuity with nature, and use poetic design to achieve balance and fit with humanity and geography.
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