Studio8 referenced tea leaves and bamboo cane throughout the design of this hotel near Hangzhou, China, to keep guests' attention on the surrounding rural terrain.
Anadu Resort is near the city of Huzhou, nestled at the bottom of Mogan mountain. The mountain forms part of Moganshan National Park, a popular tourist destination recognised for its lush vegetation and examples of early 20th-century Chinese architecture.

Shanghai-based architects Studio8 were approached by a group of private investors to create a boutique hotel for the area that could offer guests a relaxing holiday experience.
"One of the requests from the client was to 'design a room for the [guests] to stay for a whole day without stepping out', where there is no TV or iPad," the architects told Dezeen.
"Therefore we came up with the concept of 'finding yourself in nature', where guests can stay by themselves, reading or thinking amongst nature," continued the architects.
The 30,000 square-metre hotel is composed of three stacked rectilinear volumes, whose internal spaces have been arranged to offer different perspectives of the verdant landscape.

While rooms looking out to the east can see a dense bamboo forest, those towards the south elevation have views of a distant mountain range. Suites facing the west overlook a sprawling tea field.
"We wanted to design a contemporary building, and by orientating the rooms to the different natural elements around, the shape of the building ...