Chinese architecture studios Wiki World and Advanced Architecture Lab have designed an array of 18 timber cabins clad in mirrors for a hotel in Yichang, Hubei province.
Scattered over the mountainside between the trees, each cabin is an individual hotel room, complemented by communal buildings that have a cafe and a swimming pool.
The 18 cabins sit on a misty mountainside
Wiki World and +Advanced Architecture Lab developed five different cabin typologies for the hotel, which caters to tourists visiting the region.
"The cabins are bridges in the valleys, spaceships in the woods, viewfinders in the tea fields, and stacked building on the hillside," said Wiki World.
The mirrored buildings reflect the landscape
Sometimes the structures are shrouded in mist, giving the project the name Mountain and Cloud Cabins. "The incomplete reflection of the mirror surface can make the wooden cabin blend into the environment well," added the studio.
"It can be hidden from time to time in the unique dense fog landscape in the mountains, giving the tea garden a quiet and mysterious atmosphere."
The bridge cabins are 14 metres long
The bridge cabins are 14 metres long and are suspended above the tea fields with their own balconies.
The "spaceships" are also called the loft cabins. Set further up the slops, they are 14 metres high and have pointed forms.
When approached from behind, the reflective surfaces on the exterior make the cabins appear as if they...