Beijing-based architecture studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Xinzhai Coffee Manor complex in the Yunnan Province, China, which processes coffee from the surrounding hills and is a hotel for visitors to the area.
Named the Xinzhai Coffee Manor, the hotel contains all the normal facilities alongside space for processing, storing, tasting, and selling coffee.
"Xinzhai Coffee Manor is like a collection of buildings linked by corridors, with part of the buildings serving as a resort," Trace Architecture Office told Dezeen.

The complex occupies a group of existing buildings that have been renovated  and extended in Bawan Village near Gaoligong Mountain, in central China.
The site had an abandoned cinema and a large grey brick building, originally built in the 1980s. As most of the buildings on the site are made of brick, Trace Architecture Office made several extensions and interventions from brick too.
"The building is greatly inspired by bricks, which leads to the use of different forms of vaults in architecture. Bricks are in fact commonly seen locally, most buildings on the site and in adjacent villages are made of bricks," explained the architecture studio.
Trace Architecture Office added two courtyards surrounded by concrete covered walkways to unite the buildings. A cafe is located alongside one of these spaces, with vaulted glass doorways that open into one of the courtyard.

A level below these courtyards the main buildin...