Local materials
We build with what the landscape already has — stone, timber and bamboo from around Wulingyuan. A building made of local material carries the smell of the place it stands in.
Design & Delivery
Design and delivery
How we design a space in Wulingyuan — and who is still holding it when the last light is fitted.
Design philosophy
Read the landscape first,
then start drawing
In Wulingyuan, your competition is whatever is outside the window. We don't try to beat it. We work out how to invite it in.
Framing the view
Every room is a picture frame. Where the window sits, how high the chair is, what you see the moment you open the door — all of it is decided deliberately, not left to chance.
Built to last, lightly
Green materials, low-energy systems, and a bias towards repairing rather than replacing. Beauty that costs the landscape something isn't the kind we're after.
The design team
The design is done in-house
Four disciplines — spatial, soft furnishing, landscape and lighting — under one roof. From the first sketch to the last bulb, the same small team owns it.
Xu Feizhou
Chief Spatial Designer
“Every space should be a stage for a conversation between people and nature.”
Su Wanqing
Soft Furnishing Art Director
“Every object in a room is a bridge between the space and the person standing in it.”
Chen Yizhou
Landscape Design Lead
“The best landscape design is the kind that lets the building disappear into the hills.”
He Siyuan
Lighting Design Consultant
“Light is the fourth dimension of a room. It's what makes a building breathe.”
Selected work
Six spaces we've built
Each one started from a specific situation — on a cliff, beside a stream, inside a bamboo grove.
Mountainside
Yunqi Pavilion
On the edge of a cliff, sleeping level with the cloud.
Stream
Xigu Retreat
Raw timber against river stone, with the stream running past the bed.
Night sky
Starry House
A skylight directly over the bed, and nothing between you and the dark.
Bamboo
Bamboo Court
A tea room and a reading room set among the bamboo, with the light coming through it.
Moonlight
Moonlight Pavilion
A lookout terrace for the end of the day, with the whole valley in front of it.
Spring water
Tingquan Lodge
Built beside running water, so the white noise is the real thing.
These are design works, not room types. The six spaces above are projects from our design practice — concepts and completed builds, some of them elsewhere. If you're booking a room at the hotel in Wulingyuan, you want Suite, King or Twin.
How a project runs
From concept to handover
Drawings are the middle of the job, not the end of it. What decides whether a hotel is pleasant to stay in is whether someone kept watching the steps after them.
Site appraisal
Location, footfall and a return-on-investment model. We work out whether the numbers hold up before anybody sketches a room.
Concept design
Theme, layout, character. Before a single drawing, decide what you want a guest to remember about the place.
Technical design
Construction drawings, material selection, cost control. The job here is translating an idea into something a builder can actually build.
Construction management
Site supervision, programme control, quality inspection. This is the stage that quietly decides whether everything before it survives.
Soft furnishing
Bespoke furniture, artwork, atmosphere. Most of a room's character lives in this layer, not in the walls.
Handover
Full quality control, a trial run under real conditions, then formal handover. It isn't finished until a paying guest has slept in it and nothing went wrong.
The numbers
A few figures
100%
Original design
60days
Standard delivery time
15+
Design patents
0
Quality incidents
Have a site that deserves better?
If you own a courtyard, an old building or a piece of land in the right place, we're happy to talk. We'll come and look at it first, then tell you honestly whether it can work and what it would take.