Peach Blossom Future Villa presents 56 single families dropping in a mountain scenic area. Two key design guidelines - to best preserve the natural environment and respect the complex terrain.
The integration of ‘heaven, earth and humanity’ is the overriding philosophy of the project. Inspired by the traditional Chinese stilt house, each villa is supported by 3 steel columns. This steel frame structure minimizes the break of existing topo and promotes a lightness looking. Simple materials palette including steel, glass and board finish concrete, is designed to weather gracefully within the site context.
To fully blend the architecture into the beautiful alpine landscape environment, Future Villa uses large glass as enclosure, emphasizes the horizontal extension and creates an impression that glass boxes are floating effortlessly among the canopy of evergreen pines. The variety experience in common space gives people a spiritual satisfaction, while the upper floors are stretching into the sky, the ground floor is tying the blessed nature to daily life by introducing atrium and private patio to penetrate abundant natural lighting and lush foliage into the house.
Each villa has its own private views and experience to adapt with the complex ‘three-hills-and-two-valleys’ setting. After the construction of the architecture part, more native planting is amended to the site to mitigate the environmental impact. Entry gateway is low-pitched, surface parking is minimized. All the above delivers a complete design of fulfilled natural belongings, creates an unexpectedly peaceful place off the beaten path, tells a true story of ‘Peach Blossom Valley’.
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