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The forest restaurant
Lately the hospitality sector is not giving away true architectural gems. Either because they want to attract clients or because they simply want to leave a mark on the most modern architecture. Architects and designers are unleashing their imaginations on literally stunning projects.
If recently, we already talked about the groundbreaking first underwater restaurant in Europe. Today, we enter a restaurant that is perfectly immersed in a eucalyptus forest. Pure architecture to enjoy with all the senses!
From the hand of the architecture studio MUDA Architects and located in the southwest of China (In the rural area of Chengdu, city of Sansheng), we found the restaurant project Garden Hotpot Restaurant.
A restaurant enters into perfect symbiosis and makes its way through a eucalyptus forest surrounding a lotus pond. The design celebrating the hotpot, a popular dish that has become a symbol of the region.
Garden Hotpot Restaurant is located in Sansheng Township, known as "Chengdu Green Lung", with unique natural conditions and ecological resources.
With the premise of respecting the natural environment as much as possible. The architecture studio MUDA decided to eliminate the vertical limits - without walls - that could distort the visual of the diners taking advantage of the climatic conditions of the place. Using only pillars in its vertical structure, and allowing the building to blend smoothly into the place.
The tables of different sizes are housed in a structure with 3 meter high pillars that support a galvanized steel deck that winds around the lake and the forest.
In total, the building has a circumference of 290 meters and the width varies with the natural environment. The platform that houses the tables is made of anticorrosive wood (See article on architecture with wood) and the roof of galvanized steel sheet, coated with white fluorocarbon paint, which complements the exuberant environment that surrounds it.
In the supporting structure, a series of 88 mm diameter steel columns were used, evenly distributed on both sides that allow the restaurant to have a greater integration in the forest, melting with the straight trunks of the eucalyptus trees that disappear in nature. In addition to allowing to minimize human intervention.
The lakeside curved wood railing is built for clients to enjoy the views and blur the boundaries of the lake, bringing people closer to nature.
The MUDA study carried out an extensive mapping of the area to achieve a design that is perfectly adapted to the location of the eucalyptus trees and the lake, and always with the intention of respecting the natural environment as much as possible.
The first phase of the building is now open to the public. A light and transparent building that permeates users in a wonderful ecological and romantic tour. And if you are interested in the integration of nature in buildings, you can see the article on the greenest building or why use bamboo in architecture.
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