A conical roof covered in shingles caps The Mushroom guesthouse, which ZJJZ Atelier has built in a pine forest in Jiangxi, China to draw visitors away from a "mundane ordinary life".
Chinese studio ZJJZ Atelier designed the cabin for Tree Wow, a hotel complex made up of several houses near a popular scenic spot called Fairy Lake in Xinyu.
The Mushroom was designed to have a surreal, dream-like quality, paying homage to local folklore in which a man is said to have fallen in love with a fairy at the lake.
Above: ZJJZ Atelier has created a guest house called The Mushroom. Top image: it nestles in a Pine forest in Jiangxi
"According to a Chinese ancient tale, the Fairy Lake is where the fairy and the man fell in love," ZJJZ Atelier told Dezeen. "It is a unique site that owns a place in folk culture," "The client would like to create a place that is surreal, in order to allow the visitors to pull themselves away from mundane ordinary life, to relax and enjoy nature," it continued. "Our design is a spatial response to that request."
It is capped by a conical roof. Photo is by Tian Fangfang
To help The Mushroom blend into its site, ZJJZ Atelier created a textured material palette with granolithic concrete lower walls and tactile pine shingles on its conical roof.
The studio also elevated the structure above ground in order to minimise its impact on the site and encourage plants to grow up and around it over time.
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