Viewing Pavilion on Hill | TAO – Trace Architecture Office

Designed by TAO – Trace Architecture Office, The pavilion is located in woods on the hill of TashanPark in Weihai, a coastline city in Shandong. To protect the trees in the site and offer the view to major sights of the city, the building is conceived as a merged volume with three viewing tubes like tree branches orientating to a different axis. Half buried and half cantilevered, the building provides to the visitor different experience on two levels: walking down half level, one will enter the inside of teahouse and gallery space with framed views to various scenery; walking up through the preserved trees in the landscape to the roof terrace, one will enjoy an unfolded breathtaking panoramic view to the ocean on this viewing platform.

Project Info:
Architects: TAO – Trace Architecture Office
Location: Weihai, Shandong, China
Architect in Charge: Trace Architecture Office
Design Team: HUA Li, Jiang Nan, Yu Haiwen
Area: 256.0 sqm
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Yao Li
Project Name: Viewing Pavilion on Hill