For a 43,055-square-foot tourist entertainment center under construction in the famed Changbaishan mountain region in China, architect Xu Tiantian’s was at first less concerned about the buildings than where they sit—a patch of primeval woodland with a gorgeous mountain backdrop. “The beauty there is so overwhelming,” says the principal of Xu’s Beijing-based DnA_Design and Architecture. “So we decided that maybe the most convincing way to design this building was to have a dialog with nature.”
Instead of a single “big block” complex, Xu created a trio of buildings that mimic natural forms, signaling the programs within. As the first of a series of buildings in the new town of Baixi, the project was meant “to create a certain language that could influence the future buildings in that area,” she says.
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