An Villa Aesthetics Pavilion

Project name: An Villa Aesthetics Pavilion

Location: Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China

Project type: Clubhouse

Area: 200 ㎡

Interior finishes design: Nature Times Art Design Co., Ltd.

Interior decoration design: Nature Times Art Aesthetics

Chief designers: Wei Jinjing, Wei Yaocheng, Zhang Huichao

Design team: Xie Gang, Wang Meng

Clients: Yoland Real Estate, New Hope, Vanke

Photography: Yanming Photos

Completion time: Dec.2020

Shaoxing, situated in the south corner of Yangtze River delta, features natural river network and stone bridges typical to Jiangnan water towns. Enlisted as a pilot sponge city years ago, Shaoxing is working to further improve the balanced ecology of mountains and rivers. About 2,500 years ago, Yue State located its capital in Shaoxing. Today, the city has been home to many historical relics of emperors Shun and Yu and the Yue State, and nourished and attracted a great number of talents and celebrities. The profound and well-preserved historical and cultural contexts have made Shaoxing a “museum without walls”.With spatial scenes extending Shaoxing’s historical and cultural endowments and natural context, the project is expected to transform naturalistic oriental sentiments into contemporary life aesthetics through design and artistic expressions. The space combines natural, artistic and retro elements, which conforms to the environment and is approachable. The design weakens the commercial and marketing purposes of the project by creating inclusive spatial experience, which evokes strong emotional resonance of users in a warm and silent way.Built in a tranquil and natural environment with luxuriant plants, the project is an independent and warm presence in a form of “pavilion” which coexists with the courtyard. The building is enclosed by dark gray grilles and blended with elegant and simple aesthetic images, as if it opens the door of time travel, through which people enter a serene, poetic world. Waterscape, moss and trees form natural, vigorous sculptures. Natural light penetrates the “carved” grille ceiling, creating enframed views with changing shadows and producing a tranquil ambience in which time seems to stop here.