The Lingtou Village Tea Pavilion is an exploration of landscape architecture strategy achieved in a very short period of time and with minimal human intervention.
Lingtou Village Tea Pavilion is located on Jiti Mountain in Huangpu District, Guangzhou, which is an important node of the Changling National Mountaineering Trail. Although it has rare landscape resources, it lacks professional sightseeing guidance and supporting facilities for shade and shelter, gradually becoming less accessible and lacking in vitality. So we chose to build a sightseeing tea pavilion at the best location with sightseeing resources, providing a place for tourists and villagers to rest.
The design starts from a unique mountainous environment and serves as an extension of the mountain range. The hiking trail is embedded in the mountain, while the building is anchored to the mountain through the height difference of the site. In this case, architecture is not an independent element, but rather grows from nature.
The design of the pavilion extracts the shape of mountains as design element. Combined with the winding path plan, and through the fusion of vision and imagination, the project adopts an abstract design language to interpret the contour and metaphor of the mountains. The extension of mountain and the open flowing space allow the tea pavilion becoming a theatre of humans and the nature.
This is a pavilion construction with a steel-bamboo structure. The overall volume of the building is divided into two parts: the upper part is made of lightweight new materials, and the lower part is supported by a V-shaped steel-bamboo structure roof truss. The entire building embodies the honesty and rationality of structure, and through the flowing and transparent space shaped by the construction itself, expresses the blur boundary between architecture and nature.