"Text description provided by the architects. Moon Bay Waterfall marks the threshold of Mount Wuyi National Park and is the first landscape encountered upon entering the park. In 2023, CLAB Architects was commissioned to construct a viewing platform at this site. The waterfall originates from an artificial dam built in 1979 for hydrological regulation. Crescent-shaped in plan, it lends Moon Bay its name."
"Over decades of interaction between human intervention and natural processes, the dam has been fully absorbed into its environment. Upstream, the water settles into a calm surface; downstream, erosion exposes massive river stones. Together, these elements form a place in the phenomenological sense-close to the ground, yet acting as a center that brings sky, mountain, and water into relation."
Moon Bay Waterfall marks the threshold of Mount Wuyi National Park and is the first landscape encountered upon entering the park. A viewing platform was commissioned in 2023 to provide access to the site. The waterfall originates from an artificial dam built in 1979 for hydrological regulation. The dam's crescent plan gives Moon Bay its name. Decades of human intervention and natural processes have led the dam to be fully absorbed into its environment. Upstream water settles into a calm surface, while downstream erosion exposes massive river stones. The place is phenomenologically close to the ground, acting as a center that relates sky, mountain, and water.
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