Beijing-based architecture studio Plat Asia has completed a restaurant in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao featuring three glass-walled dining rooms that look out onto a surrounding forest.

Plat Asia, founded in 2010 by Baoyang Bian and Donghyun Jung, designed the Forest Dining Club for a site in the port city’s Aranya neighbourhood.

The restaurant’s location on the edge of a forest informed a pared-back design and material palette that seeks to immerse guests in their natural surroundings.

“The building itself is intentionally faded out, in order to make people focus on experiencing the nature,” the architects explained.

“The project is an exploration of the spatial aesthetics of contemporary oriental architecture, and is a media for the communication between people and the nature.”

The building is divided into three units that extend towards the forest.

Trees planted between the different volumes ensure the woodland intersects with the architecture and encloses the rooms on three sides.

On the side that faces towards the city, the three dining rooms are connected by a circulation block featuring a facade made from light-coloured concrete.

The facade is concealed behind a screen of slatted timber that helps it to blend in with the trees.

The circulation building is topped with a double-layered pitched roof that extends out 2.4 metres from the concrete facade to form a sheltered corridor leading towards the dining club’s entrance.

Source:
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/30/plat-asia-forest-dining-club-qinhuangdao-china-architecture/
by Alyn Griffiths from www.dezeen.com