BELLAOZOID III EXERCISE - BELVEDERE

The structure is aimed to take visitors above and beyond the city wall. To solve the question of going up of people on the level of the wall the double helix staircase was added to the project. The idea of the staircases, inspired by Bramante and Palladio, is to just get from point A to B but to try and make this experience as interesting as it can be possible. It is held by the three eclipse cages, shaping three courtyards, which refers to the morphology of the traditional Chinese houses. The belvedere itself sits above the wall, offering the viewers a 360 panorama of Nanjing. The elliptical roundness of the stairs is articulated at the belvedere too, making the structure seem like a peaceful organism that just exists in the given surroundings.