Badaling Forest Experience Center，Beijing

There are 33 large trees in the construction site. Considering that the average life span of buildings in China is only 25-30 years, who is the owner of this land?

From the beginning, the architectural design revolved around the relationship between the building and the tree. The space was designed by finding "empty" ways, cutting and compressing the shape, retaining the original trees on the site and the building also obtained a positive environmental symbiosis.

The building entangled within the gaps of coexisting 33 large trees. Different building levels show different relationship between people and trees，such as the relationship between people and trunks, and the relationship with crowns. The closed exhibition space model was abandoned, while we introduced a lot of nature light to blur the boundary between internal and external, and gave the scene settings a background of the native environment.

The external space formed by the building's extension has also become a place for environmental education or kid’s playground.

Rainwater runoff is not blocked by the building, the original creek and sewage treated by artificial wetlands merge into a small pond before the building. Rustic materials and lighting give warmth in the wilderness especially on cold days.

The center is one of China's earliest nature exploration centers, composed of exhibition halls, lecture halls, cafe, souvenir shops, rescue, office and public toilets etc. It tells local forest stories and provides a variety of forest education and experience activities.