By invitation from Songjiang Tianma Mountain Tea Ceremony, W+W Architects designed and built a conceptual landscape pavilion "Cloud". Through a low-cost rapid construction method, they presented a landscape meditation space with Eastern cultural connotations in nature.
The "Cloud Pavilion" like a cloud gently floating on the ground, sways with the wind in the forest, enveloped by changing light and shadows. The architect suspended a 6x6m perforated curtain of transparent nylon thread above the trees, with its boundaries entirely defined by nature. The curtain is detached from the ground but as close to it as possible. This serves to establish an intimate relationship between people, land, and space, while also creating a sense of privacy inside. The architect determined the height of each anchor point on-site, intentionally lowering the side closer to the road to prevent external visibility into the interior; lifting the curtain higher at the highest point within the site allows visitors to stand and gaze at the ancient pagoda. By organizing paths using the terrain, they designed an entrance ceremony feeling. Placing the entrance at the far end opposite the pagoda, visitors must pass through a natural pathway and lift the curtain to enter bent over. They deliberately left the original ground untreated, only setting a 2x2m seat directly below the curtain with the same material, conveying the design concept of "only touching and not altering nature."
Functionally, the "Cloud Pavilion" is a customizable space where visitors can stand, sit, or lie down, suitable for solitude or gathering with friends and family. It is also a conceptual space existing for only three days, aiming to provoke broad considerations on the relationship between humans and nature.