Songtsm Travel Hotel Jiuzhai, Sichuan buildings
Songtsm Travel Hotel Jiuzhai, Sichuan Province, China, by Thinking Design. On a 3,000-meter-high ridge in Jiuzhaigou: micro-village of eight wooden cabins—China’s smallest administrative village. The design is not conceived as renovation, but as a process of recalling—drawing out the latent memories embedded within the land. It engages with the character of the site, from the dense mountain forest and timbered landscape to the layered geological formations shaped over time. Rather than imposing a new form, the architecture responds to these conditions, revealing and interpreting the site’s existing material and temporal qualities through space, structure and material choice