West-Line Studio creates bamboo-clad gateway to Chinese national park
A zigzag elevated walkway and a pavilion wrapped in bamboo  by West-Line Studio in the province of Guizhou, China, has been revealed in new photos.
The Zhuhai National Park Gateway marks the entrance to an area covering 10,000 hectares around 25 miles from Chishui City, which is a popular tourist destination due to the presence of the famous "Bamboo Sea".
The building, which was completed in 2016, is one of several landscaping and architectural interventions made by the local cultural and tourism department to immerse visitors in the bamboo forest.
The main agenda for West-Line Studio's project was to respect the forest by limiting its physical impact on the landscape and making use of local technologies and sustainable materials.
The programme includes the main entrance, a smaller tea pavilion, and a network of boardwalks that covers a total built area of just 514 square metres within the 22,000-square-metre landscaped zone. Beyond the gateway, the path extends upwards to the tea pavilion and onto the forested mountainside.
The centrepiece of the project is the entrance pavilion, which features a floor plan formed by four intersecting curved walls. The building's concrete structure is wrapped in lengths of bamboo that help it to merge with its surroundings.
"The park's main entrance is designed as a dense assembly of vertical lines," said the Guiyang-based studio. "The idea was to create, in the middle of the forest, a denser cluster, whic...
-------------------------------- |
Design Museum film shows Vespa Clubman travelling across London |
|
Tetinska: Innovative House Design by SMLXL in Prague
03-05-2024 09:24 - (
Architecture )