Plan your visit
- City Chongqing
- Area Nan'an District
- Nearest Subway Line 3 (Tongyuanju Station)
- Vibe Unique
- Crowded Low (Strictly local residential)
- Price Free
- Suggested time 1h
About this place
A typical 1980s work-unit residential community built on near-45-degree slopes using extreme terraced architecture to fit enough residents onto a cliff face — its physical layout almost entirely unchanged since construction.
Drifter says
"This is a real-life Monument Valley. The spatial logic here is completely counter-intuitive: you walk up to a building's rooftop to reach the ground-floor entrance of the building behind it. Abandon the map and navigate by body, feeling out what 'rooftop as street' actually means in three dimensions. The moss-covered concrete staircases and tangled overhead power lines are an urban aesthetics dream."
