Amsterdam studio More Architecture used a large zigzagging roof to shelter Floating Hotel, which is dramatically positioned among the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping, China.
Located in the rural Anji region, the hotel contains 18 rooms that More Architecture said are designed to provide guests with an "immersive relationship with nature".
Floating Hotel is perched on a grid of steel columns, raised above an open ground floor containing a swimming pool and administrative spaces.
More Architecture has created the Floating Hotel in China
"The client had this idea of a building 'floating above the bamboo', and we took it as an inspiration to elevate the building above the mountains, and let the landscape continue under it, uninterruptedly," More Architecture partner Daan Roggeveen told Dezeen. "We wanted to create a large roof that brings people together, and allows them to enjoy the wonderful surroundings in which the hotel is set," he added.
The studio created three different room types for Floating Hotel, each with different orientations and relationships to the landscape.
It overlooks the bamboo forests and mountains of Dachangping
In the "corridor" rooms, extra wide spaces provide broad views over one side of the landscape, while the "gallery" rooms are oriented to give narrower, dual-aspect views.
At either end of the plan, two blocks contain suites, with those at the building's edges benefitting from panoramic...