Beijing-based firm MUDA-Architects has designed the new Garden Hotpot Restaurant in the Sansheng Township of Chengdu in Southwest China. Crafted without any walls, the eatery embraces a backdrop of the surrounding eucalyptus forest and lotus pond around it.
The narrow layout curves in response to the landscape, totaling more than 950 feet in circumference. Visitors dine atop a platform of anti-corrosive wood and a roof of galvanized steel. Coated in white fluorocarbon paint, the 10-foot-tall roof slab is supported by a series of thin steel columns whose form mirrors the surrounding trees. In total, the building has a circumference of 951 feet, with a height of nearly 10 feet, and a width varying with the natural environment.
