Tapering Volume: A Government Building Dialoguing with the Mountains

A public building located by a mountain, its massing recedes layer by layer from bottom to top, forming a gentle tapering profile that echoes the slope of the mountain behind it. The facade consists of vertical precast concrete ribs, spaced 900mm apart and 400mm deep, becoming slightly denser with increasing height. Between the ribs is dark glass, making the floor lines almost invisible from the outside. The entire ground floor of the building is elevated, leaving only structural columns, allowing people to pass directly from the mountain side to the sea side. Early morning light grazes the ribs from the side, creating strong vertical shadows.
Avoid: massing as a rectilinear slab building, glass curtain wall facade, enclosed ground floor as retail, adding roof features.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟臨山的公共建築,量體由下往上逐層退縮,形成一個緩和的收分輪廓,呼應背後山體的坡度。立面是垂直的預鑄混凝土肋條,間距 900mm,深度 400mm,隨高度增加而略微變密。肋條之間是深色的玻璃,從外面幾乎看不見樓層線。建築底部整層架空,只剩結構柱,人可以從山側直接穿越到海側。清晨的光從側面掠過肋條,形成強烈的垂直陰影。避免:量體做成方正的板樓、立面使用玻璃帷幕、底層封閉成店面、加入屋頂造型。