Waterside Buddist Shrine / ARCHSTUDIO

This is a place for Buddhist mediation, thinking and contemplation, as well as a place satisfying the needs of daily life. The building is located in the forest by the riverside. Along the river, there is a mound, behind which is a great stretch of open field and sporadic vegetable greenhouses. The design started from the connection between the building and nature, adopts the method of earthing to hide the building under the earth mound while presenting the divine temperament of nature with flowing interior space. A place with power of perception where trees, water, Buddha and human coexist is thus created.

Waterside Buddist Shrine / ARCHSTUDIO
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  • architects: ARCHSTUDIO
  • Location: Tangshan, Hebei, China
  • Project Year: 2017
  • Photographs: Weiqi Jin
  • Area: 169.0 m2

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