Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove, Suzhou Development, New Chinese Commercial Building, Architecture Images
Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove in Jiangsu Province
19 July 2022
Architects: GOA
Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

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Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove, China
The Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove is located at the west end of Shanwan Village in the countryside of Suzhou, a typical waterside village of the Jiangnan region, situated on the vast swamp plain of Taihu. Being the first constructed phase of a low-rise leisure-led complex development by GOA, the restaurant functions as a dining space for visitors, as well as a small banquet hall for holding a variety of public events. Rather than being just an architectural construction, the project is more of a landscape that immerses into its natural context, eventually becoming part of nature. It delivers joyful moments by the water, and peaceful nature experiences where architecture enables new ways of seeing the landscape.
A grove of metasequoia trees onsite, standing by an enormous expanse of water, becomes the only nature skyline in this plain terrain. The forms of the metasequoia trees are abstracted and translated into a purely geometric architectural language, a pyramidal frustum, and are applied to the Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove as a featuring icon and a modular inspiration for the design.

The pyramidal frustum module takes three sizes and forms small-medium-large modular order accord...