Swerving a touch away from the extroverted, ultra-developmental, and contemporary edifices defining the built landscape of China is the Restaurant of Metasequoia Grove conceived by the Group of Architects (GOA), a diligent one-storey architecture capped with a cluster of dynamically arranged latticed pyramids sliced flat at the top. The structure rises idyllically from a rural woodland in China, citing a direct influence on the site's terrain - the form of the conical metasequoia trees blessing the ground in abundance were abstracted and translated into pure geometries of pyramidal frustums, as a study into a "modular" architectural language for the project. The modules crowning the building rise and reach diverse heights, forming a continuous, choreographed canopy that traces and embodies an artificial forest profile growing amid nature.