Ninghai County in Zhejiang Province is a beautiful county just like a Shangri-La. With its back against the mountains and its face towards the sea, Ninghai is embraced by rising peaks and long valleys. It has a national forest park and abundant hot spring geothermal resources. The operator of the CHEDI Ninghai Hot Spring Hotel is GHM, a world-famous luxury resort management company. The first phase of the hotel, including nearly 100 villas, restaurants, hot spring spas, an equestrian center, a parent-child park and other leisure services, opens in January 2019. The overall site level of the second phase is higher than that of the first phase, the relative elevation within the building lines of the plan area is larger, and the topography is more complex. The task requires intensive use of very narrow plots, economical construction of nearly 60 villas and mountaintop swimming pools and other ancillary services, to maximize the maintenance and utilization of the natural mountain landscape features.

The design scheme presents a mountain resort hotel prospect composed of multiple groups of guest-rooms that fit into the terrain and five distinctive public service nodes. The main purpose of the design is to match the traffic, architecture and terrain more harmoniously, to integrate the public service nodes and guest-room areas more accessibly, and to combine each architectural modeling with the mountain more beautifully into a unique landscape.