Conceived as a "suspended cloud", this white pavilion in Shandong province, China, serves as a reception centre and offers spectacular views over a mountain landscape. Designed by the studio Gad line+, it stands near the Shenlong canyon, facing Mount Tai, one of China's five sacred mountains.
The building combines three elements: a white membrane as a canopy, full-height glazing of absolute transparency and a massive stone base. The whole was built in just five months.
A light and transparent architecture
To contrast with the harshness of the landscape, the architects wanted the pavilion, named Jiunvfeng Study, to be as light and transparent as possible. "Less is more", sums up the design team. Visitors enter through an opening in the stone walls, before discovering a single long room, flanked by two outdoor balconies.
Africa and Mari-Sol furniture
The reading area, which brings together books and lounge corners, has been furnished with armchairs from the Africa collection and Mari-Sol tables, contract furniture designed by Eugeni Quitllet. The full-height windows offer panoramas of the mountains, giving visitors the illusion of standing in the treetops.
Signature avant-garde pieces
The pavilion also hosts emblematic design creations: pieces from the Noma collection, designed by Javier Mariscal, and the Rosinante armchair, by the famous Eero Aarnio. A bar completes the whole, elegantly fitted with stools from the Wall Street collection.
A space for reading and meditation
Inside, visitors are immersed in a relaxed atmosphere, conducive to reading and meditation. The furniture, with its soft, colourful lines, supports this invitation to calm without ever breaking the dialogue with the surrounding landscape.
A cloud resting on the mountain
Seen from afar, the white structure seems to float gently above the terrain. That is the whole poetry of the project: a place of work and contemplation which, thanks to Vondom furniture, combines contemporary comfort and the majesty of a sacred site.
