Restaurant and the Sea
Vector Architects
Beidaihe New District, China
Every project in the Aranya seashore series has its own relationship to the sea. The Seashore Library is a spiritual institution — controlled views, defined thresholds, a place where the ocean is framed and held at a respectful distance. The Seashore Chapel makes ceremony out of light and enclosure. Restaurant y Sea, the third building in Vector Architects' trilogy, refuses both of those approaches. The sea here is a backdrop, not a focus. You notice it the way you notice the sky.
The building sits directly behind the library across the beach. The challenge was adjacency: how do you build next to a solid, monumental volume without either competing with it or disappearing? Vector Architects answered with dispersion. Rather than a single massing, the restaurant is a non-directional canopy fragmented into courtyards and passages, floating above an undulating landscape. You approach from any direction. There is no front.
Tree courtyards are the organizing principle. They bring light and airflow into the interior while acting as structural hinges — the full-height fair-faced concrete walls of the courts carry the shear forces that allow the roof to be supported....… see more here
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