Taishan Jiunu Peak bubble pool and supporting facilities

Leaning on the cliff embracing all directions, eyes reach the long sky, wrote Li Bai; in his verse, Mount Tai, foremost of the five great peaks, breathes the world and holds all beauty. Facing ancient strata evolved over three billion years, humans are tiny, yet how should architecture, our dwelling, grow into natural order? Background: the Jiunvfeng pool sits in Dongximen Village, Tai'an, a typical northern mountain village with natural beauty around Mount Tai but declining due to population loss, while cities grow densely under construction. Crowded, high-pressure urbanites long for rural idyll with nowhere to turn, while the countryside urgently needs an activating spark. Facing this, we explore how urban space-building can activate negative rural areas, build a village IP and draw traffic, how incremental public space responds to urban longing for nature, and how to embrace and dialogue with existing natural beauty. The Jiunvfeng pool emerges from these demands. Spatial balance: in line+'s conception, the pool is a strategic response to nature, a key acupoint reviving the declining village. Between the urgently renewing poor village and world-class grandeur, the pure, transparent, flowing pool balances the two spatial temperaments. It is a pure white brushstroke growing from the mountainside, responding to treetops and sky, dialoguing with Tai'an's winding natural veins, like a cloud-sea pearl left between stone steps. Siting and function come from geography and spatial need: entering the village, passing guest rooms on the slope, climbing stone paths, the white pool appears among forest. The pool responds to human affinity for water and healthy urban lifestyles, completing circulation with lower guest rooms and upper study. Three zones, changing, bathing and fitness, form three masses: the west is semi-outdoor bathing, where a column-free, unobstructed pure space is essential; the pure white roof, rising from the ground, cantilevers ten meters toward the deep mountain, sheltering the pool and giving occupants maximum facing of landscape. The east is the indoor part, curled inward, with reception, changing, bathing and a small sauna. The south is the gym, facing village and foothills, with a clean shell opening oriented as entrance, sitting north-facing-south and continuing the village's mountain slope. Changing and bathing zones connect in flowing curved surfaces facing northeast mountains, gathering views while ensuring privacy. From afar, the pool is like a pearl lost in Tai'an's cloud sea; three enclosed spaces naturally embrace native landscape, following mountain veins and balancing nature and village. Weakening mass: the pool intends to create a weakened architectural mass amid vast mountain scenery. Irregular curved white forms create free openings, with large transparent facades, landscape restoration and planting that blur inside-outside. Internally, it gives the scale of being held alone, with the cantilevered curved roof offering security and comfort; externally, it is an inwardness facing vastness, interpreting architecture's subordination to nature through self-weakening. The three elevations express void, solid and none: the gym's south opening, with hidden columns and glass, frames village scenery and admits light while enclosing the insulated fitness area; the changing area needs extreme privacy, using highly reflective mirrored metal cladding that maps the flowing exterior, ensuring the interior is solid while the building disappears into nature, expressing reverse transparency; the bathing area is a column-free, wall-less open cantilever facing the forest for zero-distance contact with nature, where the free white-eaved curve echoes distant ridges and frames native scenery. Simplified construction: to achieve the pool's ground-up growth and smooth white form, construction balances architecture, landscape and interior, simplifying structure and materials. Frame: the ten-meter cantilevered roof uses factory-prefabricated curved steel keels, modeled and calculated precisely, fixed to foundations, reliable and easy to install. Skin: after the main frame, insulation covers the keels, then a high-formability, tough stainless-steel skin with precise curved joints and fine grinding for a seamless finish. Finish: uniform metallic white paint inside and out ensures integrity, combined with large floor-to-ceiling and high-reflection glass, creating pure, transparent form. Conclusion: away from urban noise and speed, in deep forest one finds solitude, jogging, bathing, meditating, returning to nature and dialoguing with distant mountains. The Jiunvfeng pool appears on the western hillside of Tai'an, with simple curved form driven by function and landing on the renewal of Dongximen Village. Its effect on nature and village will, like its flowing form, grow freely, restore order and vitality.