SADAR+VUGA are commissioned for a project design of 6 individual villas and a hotel villa of the Tieshanping Ecological Area (TEA) development masterplan in Chongqing, a city in China's southwest interior. The TEA development will establish completely new residential, entertainment and leisure facilities on an unpopulated platform mountain, surrounded by a dense forest, with a pleasant climate, fresh air and natural attributes, which will attract people to settle or to visit this area. The masterplan and design of particular villas, hotels, outdoor places and landscapes will set up a completely new context, a new "town" above the Chongqing urban area.

Petal shells close the villas in the direction of neighbouring objects and open them in the direction of the lake and mountains. These are the main solidly built elements of the villas. The gridded frames, which protrude as partition walls from the interior toward the exterior, turn into façade railings, pergolas or simply window frames.