Mountopia Tea Café at the foot of the Siming Mountain, Yuyao City, Ningbo, by Parallect Design

Article source: Jiang Wu

Siming Mountain is located in Siming Mountain Town, Yuyao City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. It has the magnificent momentum of Longhu Mountain and the exquisite strange stones of Tuerling. It is known as a natural “oxygen bar”. Sanyo Tea House is located on the top of the mountain and is a building renovation project based on the original tea mountain pavilion.

▼Bird’s-eye view © Yingda Xu

Project name: Mountopia Tea Café at the foot of the Siming Mountain
Project type: Architecture renovation
Design: Parallect Design
Website: www.parallect-design.com
Contact e-mail: info@parallect-design.com
Design year: 2023.4
Completion Year: 2023.10
Leader designer & Team: Jiang Wu, Nan Yang, Xiangdong Xiao
Project location:Henglu Village, Lianglang Town, Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, China
Gross built area: 150㎡
Photo credit: Yingda Xu, Zaipei Li, Nan Yang
Partner: Shanghai Hengtai Architecture Design Consulting Co. LTD, Zhejiang Huida Decoration Engineering Co. LTD
Clients: Mountopia Project , Yuejie Brand Consulting
Materials:Aluminum-magnesium-manganese panels, calcium silicate panels, microc cement, folding sliding windows
Brands:Hangzhou Fengfan New Material Co., Ltd, Guangdong Shunde Lacaijia Building Material Co., Ltd, Hunan Changle Building Material Co., Mywindow

 
 

▼Site plan  © Yingda Xu

Site memory
The first time I arrived at the scene was on a rainy day in April. As I walked up the road from the foot of the mountain, I thought of the scene described by Tao Yuanming in his work ‘Peach Blossom Spring’: ‘At first, the path was narrow and only allowed one person to pass through. After walking a few dozen steps, it suddenly opened up’.Based on the spatial perception of the site, we propose two important design points as the starting point of the design: micro-intervention and landscape viewing.
Spirit carrier
Mountain represents the concentrated embodiment of traditional Chinese humanistic emotions – the pursuit of a secluded environment. This state is difficult to present in material form, just like Wang Yangming mentioned in ‘Investigating Things and Extending Knowledge’: human nature cannot be changed, and there is an inherent connection between ‘intention’ and ‘action’. Therefore, respect for and compliance with the environment become the main design orientation of our plan. The mountain range tea room has become a place for people to ‘investigate things’, which is also the original intention of building it.
▼Exploded view  © Parallect Design

▼View from the top of mountain © Yingda Xu

Architecture translation
One of the most striking features of the tea room is a long strip of folding windows facing Siming Lake, occupying an entire wall like a unique frame.

▼Look at the lake © Yingda Xu

The perception of architecture comes from various aspects, including space, light and shadow, materials, and experience, which together constitute the overall expression of the building.

▼Exterior detail  © Yingda Xu bamboo

Exterior detail Yingda Xu

Based on the concept of ecological protection and restoration, furniture, doors, and shelves indoors and outdoors are all made on-site using local bamboo and wood materials.

▼Bamboo and wood furniture  © Yingda Xu

The irregularly rectangular foundation of the original site was retained, and a portion of the outdoor lawn was placed indoors.

▼Exterior detail  © Nan Yang

In accordance with the natural geographical features of the Yangmei Garden, several open-air business areas are created outdoors using an embedded approach. This is achieved by constructing retaining walls, paving with gray gravel, and using wooden furniture to weaken the sense of intrusion on nature in this area, blending it harmoniously with the surrounding environment.
▼Nightscape from the top of mountain  © Yingda Xu

▼View of the building from the bottom of the mountain  © Zaipei Li

▼Manual model  © Parallect Design

▼Section drawing  © Parallect Design

▼Ground plan  © Parallect Design

Tags: China, Ningbo, Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province

Category: Restaurant

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