Muh Shoou Xixi Hotel

This aerial photograph presents a contemporary hotel complex designed for integration with a lush wetland landscape, captured during late afternoon when warm golden light illuminates the distant horizon. Beginning with overall orientation, the image shows a bird's-eye view looking roughly northward, with architectural structures positioned in the lower half and middle portion of the frame while dense forest and water bodies extend toward the atmospheric horizon. The primary architectural complex occupies the lower left and center, featuring interconnected buildings with dark charcoal-gray pitched roofs that feel cool and substantial like slate stone, their angular forms creating geometric contrast against the organic rounded shapes of surrounding trees. The rooflines follow traditional pitched profiles with clean horizontal eaves, suggesting materials with the smooth, weather-resistant quality of contemporary metal or tile roofing. Moving through the landscape, mature trees with full summer canopies in deep hunter green and warm viridian tones surround and embrace the buildings, their leafy textures creating a soft, cushioning effect around the crisp architectural edges. To the left of center, a calm body of water in muted teal reflects the soft sky, its surface smooth and glassy as polished stone. A similar water feature appears to the right, creating natural boundaries that frame the built environment. The distant horizon glows with warm amber and soft peachy tones where the sun approaches the skyline, creating atmospheric haze that softens distant buildings into pale silhouettes. This warm light gradually cools as it reaches the foreground, where the greens become richer and more saturated. Pathways appear as pale silver-gray ribbons winding through the grounds, their smooth surfaces suggesting stone or concrete. A single white vehicle visible in the lower portion provides scale reference, indicating the substantial size of the mature trees and building complex.

Muh Shoou originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature so as to pray for the harvest of the coming year. That’s just where the name of Muh Shoou Xixi comes. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland - coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion - to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture. While rambling in the Wetland, it's hidden in the dense forest quietly with poetic aesthetics.