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archermit tops 'feixue pavilion' with rooftop pools shaped like overlapping pear petals

designboom | architecture & design magazine·kat barandy I designboom·6 months ago
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archermit shapes feixue pavilion for pear blossom village

Feixue Pavilion by Archermit sits in Pear Blossom Village in Luzhou, China , where five rounded concrete roofs gather among trees, bamboo, and the mountain slope. The building takes its outline from pear petals, translating the flower into a set of independent slabs that overlap at staggered heights. From above, the roof reads as a loose cluster of pale forms, with shallow pools held inside their curved edges.

The approach begins before the architecture fully appears. A winding mountain path passes a large boulder and an old pear tree, setting up a slow arrival through existing landscape. The tree stays at the center of the experience.…

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