Life Experience Pavilion On The Cliff Top, New Chinese Building Design, Yangtze River Architecture
Life Experience Pavilion in Chongqing
18 Mar 2022
Architecture: aoe
Location: Wanzhou, Chongqing, southwestern China

Photos: Ligang Huang
Life Experience Pavilion On The Cliff Top
The Life Experience Pavilion project is located in Wanzhou, Chongqing, on the edge of a cliff with a vertical height of about 30 meters, close to the Yangtze River. The site provides a unique experience for the project and brings a lot of challenges to the design. The total construction area of the project is about 3,000 square meters, including a landscape elevator connected to the height difference of the cliff, the main building of the experience hall, and the observation tower for enjoying river views.
Since the building is located on top of a cliff, how to realize the visibility and accessibility of the building has become a consideration in the design. At the same time, the building needs to be integrated with the overall environment, and cannot cause damage to it.

Therefore, the design inspiration naturally comes from the mountain. The building volume of the folded surface, the plane division of the folded line, and the tortuous and changeable internal path form a spatial relationship that simulates a natural cave with rich volume and variable space.

The main structure of the building is a glass polyhedron. Several discrete glass volumes are formed according to the functions, with colum...