Facing both lake and mountains, the Hushan Art & Exhibition Center is conceived as a building that dissolves into its surroundings—ultimately becoming part of the landscape itself.

The project is located on a protruding peninsula along Baizhang Lake, where the terrain of tea fields forms a distinctive “fingerprint” across the land. Instead of placing an object onto the site, the design restores the terrain and constructs architecture in continuity with it.

The building is embedded into the mountain. Entering at ground level, visitors descend through the mass of earth toward the tip of the peninsula, approaching the water. The section of the mountain becomes the wall of the architecture, formed by exposed red sandstone native to Ya’an. This carved interior hosts spaces for exhibitions, dining, and events, where the experience is defined by the presence of the mountain itself.

At the edge of the peninsula, the mountain opens toward the lake. A shallow water plane extends seamlessly into the lake surface, allowing the water to become part of the building across seasonal changes. The architecture no longer faces the landscape—it merges with it.

Above this carved terrain sits a tea exhibition hall, accessed by a path ascending through tea fields. The space is organized as a continuous circular sequence beneath a dome-like roof. A narrow opening between the rising ground and the roof allows light, rain, and air to enter, registering time through subtle changes of light and shadow.

The project can be understood through a simple statement: mountain as wall, lake as ground, sky as roof.
Rather than constructing an object, the architecture redefines relationships between land, water, and atmosphere—becoming the landscape it inhabits.