Kinabalu Comprehensive Service Center

The project lies in Yinqiang Township, Guangshan County, Xinyang, in the Dabie Mountains' hill region, with mountains, water, farmland, reservoirs and forest, and local specialties including chestnut, rice, oil tea and tea. As the service center of the Shenshanling eco-tourism park, it provides reception, dining, leisure and accommodation. The client is a local developer whose hometown is Shenshanling; after years of career success he wants to invest in local industry to lift rural income under the rural revitalization strategy. Besides the service center, the park plans a winery, oil press, tea house, children's play area, picking area and eco-farming zones. The design concept comes from reading the site: an irregular triangle at the intersection of the east-west main road and a north branch road, narrow in the north and wide in the south, with hills on the northeast and northwest and an open southeast view. The client had already leveled and widened the site and dug into the northeast hill before the architects arrived, shaping a platform that the design works with rather than against.