Located in the riverside park along a busy street in the old town area of Kunshan, this project includes a refreshment station, public toilets, and a leisure pavilion. These program spaces are assembled as a compound that is an intermixing zone for diverse activities within a small area in the park.
The leisure pavilion has distinctive gestures on its two long sides, a permeable façade composed by vertical aluminum trellis facing the street and more transparent surface facing the river. The rhythm of the vertical louvers makes the building in harmony with the trees. This visual combination not only casts pleasant shadow into the interior space, but also constitutes a translucent interface between the leisure pavilion and the street. The steel structure maximizes the usages in the limited space and the light construction makes the building like a lantern sitting on top of the rock at night. When the sliding glass doors are all opened up, the leisure pavilion becomes a stage, which can accommodate various events in the park.
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