Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Shanshui Firewood Garden
Earth, water, light and air: Shanshui Firewood Garden brings it all together beautifully in a 1,100-square-metre tearoom in Sichuan. Designed by MIX Architecture, the building comprises four rectangular huts, which pinwheel around a central pond. The exterior cladding — red sandstone in a brickweave pattern — evokes local vernacular design, and the interior amenities, like the café and reading room, offer framed views onto a nearby bamboo forest. The central pond is surrounded by what the architects call “hollow walls”: rows upon rows of mottled firewood, suspended from the eaves by cables, which sway in the breeze and cast shadows onto the still water.
Team: Suning Zhou with Ke Yang, Qian Shi, Ziye Wu, Tao Tang and Libin Lin
Earth, water, light and air: Shanshui Firewood Garden brings it all together beautifully in a 1,100-square-metre tearoom in Sichuan.
