This design references the traditional Chinese architect's obsession with nature. Rather than sitting the building in a perfect, man made natural garden, our structure becomes the man-made natural shape itself: fake hills for the residents to live on. The design provides both a high density solution and a new landmark for the city.

2. Year: 2008
location: beihai, china
typology: residential apartment
site area: 109,203sqm
building area: 492,369sqm
building height: slab-106m; tower-194m
status: under construction

3. This design references the traditional
Chinese architect's obsession with nature.
Rather than sitting the building in a perfect, man
made natural garden, our structure becomes the
man-made natural shape itself: fake hills for the
residents to live on. The design provides both a
high density solution and a new landmark for
the city.

5. The twofold cut into the slab, creating a
sculpted form which references
the shape of the hills that dominate the region's
landscape, and to cut openings through
the structure, allowing views and light to
penetrate the structure.

7. The concept combines two typologies that most
commonly define residential developments in
China high rise towers and long, low rise
blocks. The result is a bold new structure, a long
slab with an undulating roof & circular
openings. This unique shape maximizes the views of
the residents, but at the same time
becomes a monolithic break between the
waterfront and the land behind it.

9. The architect mainly used the principal of “EMPHASIS “.
He emphasized the whole view and the
structure of the body it self by its different
shape and its circular openings.
This principle gives it’s a massive faced as well as a
rhythmic identity too.