Urban Mountain Retreat Part 1 Project 2016 Chenxing Sun Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | China The city is a gigantic machine that challenges its inhabitants on a daily basis to conform and to perform in terms of productivity and efficiency. Life is standardised to benefit collective functioning at the expense of mental balance. This project faces this reality with a non-standard space that provides city dwellers with a stress-free spiritual experience to contemplate, meditate, worship, and practice to meet fellow urbanites with spiritual needs. Tutor(s)