Baiyue Neighborhood Center

The site overlooks a beach, forest, and sea to the east. As the public space in the community, the building serves as an exhibition space, a dining area, a bar, a teahouse, a retail space, a fitting room, a swimming pool, a social area, and a landscape. Sinking courtyard and outdoor swimming pool create a diverse experience for people inside and outside of the architecture. The core concept is “Lantern” floating in the forest, which presents a lighter building and a vista roof. The building materials feature metal mesh, anodic alumina plate, incorporated with wood, glass surface, and concrete, generating a breathable and variable shading façade that decreases the building’s involvement with its surroundings and strengthens the connection between architecture and nature. A vegetation system in the building responds to the seaside climates in the subtropical zone, and is an extension to the thought of sustainable architecture.