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Based in Shanghai, Verse Design produces civic, cultural, and resort architectures defined by floating gabled volumes, illuminated louvered plinths, and organic, village-like courtyard clusters. The portfolio serves as a strong reference when detailing cantilevered screen facades beneath heavy roof planes or framing open landscape voids within dense, multi-wing campus environments.

Aerial view of twin residential towers nestled against a lush forested mountain slope by Verse Design.

三亚-阿那亚山之境-澜山酒店综合体

上海

An aerial site precedent demonstrating how high-density residential towers integrate into a steep, forested mountain context via terraced podiums.

What we like about this project
The immediate proximity of wild forest canopy right up to the rear retaining wall of the podium.

Materials

  • concrete
  • glass
  • timber-decking
  • native-planting

Visual identifiers

  • twin-towers
  • forested-slope
  • terraced-podium
  • mountain-setting

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • resort
  • contextual

Visual tags

  • high-rise
  • masterplan
  • resort-hotel
  • mountain-context
  • terraced
Geometry
Two high-rise residential towers sit on a terraced podium embedded into a steep forested hillside, flanked by winding access roads.
Facade system
Precast concrete balcony grid system creating deep textural shadow lines across the tower elevations.
Structural guess
Concrete core and flat slab construction with heavy podium retaining structures.
Spatial scale
Large-scale masterplan context; twin towers rise roughly twenty stories above a multi-level terraced podium.
Lighting
Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows from the towers onto the terraced podium and surrounding landscape.
Atmosphere
Serene yet monumental contrast between architectural white massing and wild mountain green.
Environmental context
A dense, mountainous forest bounds the rear and side of the property, contrasting with open grass fields and roads at the front.
Spatial experience
The complex acts as a built boundary where dense tropical greenery meets high-density architectural massing, stepping down the slope.
Composition rhythm
Vertical tower facades balance the horizontal tiers of the stepped podium and retaining walls below.
Style reading
Contemporary resort architecture
Program
Hotel and residential resort complex
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture
Materials
concrete, glass, timber-decking, native-planting
Visual identifiers
twin-towers, forested-slope, terraced-podium, mountain-setting
Style tags
contemporary, resort, contextual
Visual tags
high-rise, masterplan, resort-hotel, mountain-context, terraced
Geometry
Two high-rise residential towers sit on a terraced podium embedded into a steep forested hillside, flanked by winding access roads.
Facade system
Precast concrete balcony grid system creating deep textural shadow lines across the tower elevations.
Structural guess
Concrete core and flat slab construction with heavy podium retaining structures.
Spatial scale
Large-scale masterplan context; twin towers rise roughly twenty stories above a multi-level terraced podium.
Lighting
Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows from the towers onto the terraced podium and surrounding landscape.
Atmosphere
Serene yet monumental contrast between architectural white massing and wild mountain green.
Environmental context
A dense, mountainous forest bounds the rear and side of the property, contrasting with open grass fields and roads at the front.
Spatial experience
The complex acts as a built boundary where dense tropical greenery meets high-density architectural massing, stepping down the slope.
Composition rhythm
Vertical tower facades balance the horizontal tiers of the stepped podium and retaining walls below.
Style reading
Contemporary resort architecture
Program
Hotel and residential resort complex
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture

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Aerial view of twin residential towers nestled against a lush forested mountain slope by Verse Design.

三亚-阿那亚山之境-澜山酒店综合体

上海

An aerial site precedent demonstrating how high-density residential towers integrate into a steep, forested mountain context via terraced podiums.

What we like about this project
The immediate proximity of wild forest canopy right up to the rear retaining wall of the podium.

Materials

  • concrete
  • glass
  • timber-decking
  • native-planting

Visual identifiers

  • twin-towers
  • forested-slope
  • terraced-podium
  • mountain-setting

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • resort
  • contextual

Visual tags

  • high-rise
  • masterplan
  • resort-hotel
  • mountain-context
  • terraced
Geometry
Two high-rise residential towers sit on a terraced podium embedded into a steep forested hillside, flanked by winding access roads.
Facade system
Precast concrete balcony grid system creating deep textural shadow lines across the tower elevations.
Structural guess
Concrete core and flat slab construction with heavy podium retaining structures.
Spatial scale
Large-scale masterplan context; twin towers rise roughly twenty stories above a multi-level terraced podium.
Lighting
Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows from the towers onto the terraced podium and surrounding landscape.
Atmosphere
Serene yet monumental contrast between architectural white massing and wild mountain green.
Environmental context
A dense, mountainous forest bounds the rear and side of the property, contrasting with open grass fields and roads at the front.
Spatial experience
The complex acts as a built boundary where dense tropical greenery meets high-density architectural massing, stepping down the slope.
Composition rhythm
Vertical tower facades balance the horizontal tiers of the stepped podium and retaining walls below.
Style reading
Contemporary resort architecture
Program
Hotel and residential resort complex
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture
Materials
concrete, glass, timber-decking, native-planting
Visual identifiers
twin-towers, forested-slope, terraced-podium, mountain-setting
Style tags
contemporary, resort, contextual
Visual tags
high-rise, masterplan, resort-hotel, mountain-context, terraced
Geometry
Two high-rise residential towers sit on a terraced podium embedded into a steep forested hillside, flanked by winding access roads.
Facade system
Precast concrete balcony grid system creating deep textural shadow lines across the tower elevations.
Structural guess
Concrete core and flat slab construction with heavy podium retaining structures.
Spatial scale
Large-scale masterplan context; twin towers rise roughly twenty stories above a multi-level terraced podium.
Lighting
Bright direct daylight casting clear shadows from the towers onto the terraced podium and surrounding landscape.
Atmosphere
Serene yet monumental contrast between architectural white massing and wild mountain green.
Environmental context
A dense, mountainous forest bounds the rear and side of the property, contrasting with open grass fields and roads at the front.
Spatial experience
The complex acts as a built boundary where dense tropical greenery meets high-density architectural massing, stepping down the slope.
Composition rhythm
Vertical tower facades balance the horizontal tiers of the stepped podium and retaining walls below.
Style reading
Contemporary resort architecture
Program
Hotel and residential resort complex
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
architecture

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