C+ Architects perches glass restaurant above dramatic mountain landscape
Floating Island Restaurant by C+ Architects features a glazed dining room on stilts cantilevering from a hillside overlooking mountains in Chongquing, China.
Originally designed for the inaugural 2019 Wulong Lanba Land Art Festival, the restaurant is described by its creators as part-architecture, installation and exhibition.
A footbridge with glazed balustrades leads from a winding mountain road to the venue.
To enter Floating Island Restaurant visitors pass through a glass-walled waiting lounge that looks back out across the road.
"The behaviour of people crossing the bridge is more like a process of approaching the landscape and the mountains, paving the way for the subsequent experience of entering the interior of the building," said C+ Architects While this guest area sits on the ground at the top of the slope, the rest of the structure extends outwards, supported by two concrete columns and ending in a seven-metre cantilever.
C+ Architects designed Floating Island Restaurant as a blend of dining and a dramatic journey to the views.
"Chef Gilles Stassart specialises in blending food with social games to explore the relationship between people," explained the studio.
"Through several exchanges with Gilles, [we] clarified the design concept: using the architecture as a medium, with the help of the terrain, to guide the diners to experience the surrounding natural landscape while tasting the food."
Once inside, two passages along either ...
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