Dongximen

At the foot of Mount Tai, the small village of Dongximen has been quietly declining as villagers have left over the last years. In an attempt to activate the village as a high-end resort, the LuShangGroup has introduced a new resort hotel. Called the Cloud of Hometown Resort, the resort design by gad line + studio captures the textures and spatial patterns of the original village in a contemporary way. While respecting the original site, as little design imposition as possible is made to naturally reveal the site. Pan Jie Beginning in the southwest corner of the site, there were four run-down utility rooms. Enhancing the relationship between them and the connection of life to the natural mountain environment, the rooms were renovated... More