Inns by C&C Design

The beauty of symbiosis is about life and death, eternity and the moment, landscape and ourselves within it. Eight bamboo villas at Crosswaters Resort in Nankun Mountain half-hide on the mountainside by the stream, deep in greenery, like eight sages among bamboo, accompanied by subtle fragrance and bird song, warm hot springs, and vast weather, conveying a low-key, inward ease and the simple beauty of coming from and returning to nature. Aesthetics is not only visual but also care, respecting people and revering nature. The villas were designed by Colombian architect Simon Velez, a lifelong explorer of ecological architecture, who brought a classic bamboo-structured complex to Crosswaters. After taking over the interior design, Gongsheng Xingtai interpreted the master's architecture and adapted it locally by incorporating Hakka residential culture, specifically the rear courtyard. Inside and out, the villas draw on Hakka dwellings, combining a front stilted building with a rear sunken courtyard: the front is a stilted block supported by 32 timber piles, housing bedrooms and viewing balconies, while the rear is a courtyard hot-spring zone with wet areas, pools, and outdoor platforms. Nankun Mountain's bamboo resources provide a natural building material, used both structurally and decoratively. Concrete use was minimized; local craftsmen were brought in to build rammed-earth rear walls, a near-lost folk technique. Bamboo, rammed earth, tiles, river stones, and bamboo forest together form a low-key, place-specific architectural landscape. Crosswaters is one of fifty ecotourism resorts recommended by National Geographic, a model of domestic ecological tourism that maximizes environmental protection while remaining a high-end destination. After four years, when the mountains were green again, the bamboo villas bloomed.