Refuge Moganshan

Our task is simply to perceive the breath that the land itself exhales, then refine and compose it.

Below the hill, abandoned walls and derelict houses are given new life to become the “Forecourt”—a reception hall and restaurant. Higher up, the former tea-picking hut is reborn as the “Watcher’s Hut,” a summit café and hot-spring annex. Architecturally, we adopt a “return-to-origin” approach: pitched roofs, vertical supports, and natural materials reconstruct the logic of the “primitive hut,” that primal shelter which marks humanity’s first pact with nature.

Landscape interventions preserve the existing metasequoia grove and weave in new and repaired stands of bamboo, meadow slopes, and tea terraces. Three principal zones are defined: “Terraces,” “Prairie,” and “Alpine.”

The purpose of the design is to let people dissolve into nature through space itself. The grace of the forest, the dappled trunks, the scent of air, the murmur of water, the drifting light, the eternal mountain and its ever-changing clouds—these are the protagonists. The walls, eaves, and windows we place are only instruments to sharpen their reading. In quietness, architecture links us to nature, to one another, and to ourselves.