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Chongqing, China
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@signyandesign 工作室。 taken in 重庆 by @signyandesign

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我们在云南大理的下山口村，改造了两个废弃的院落。这里有非常好的天然温泉，我们改造并做了两个温泉泡池。在这个可以看到星星的村庄里泡温泉，非常的安静，感觉远离了人间，又在最当地的村庄里。 @qingshan.49 by @signyandesign

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大理｜青山村49 Villas @qingshan.49 by @signyandesign

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Chongqing is built in tiers, stacked against mountains and rivers. This guide follows its everyday rhythms: the exchange between old and new architecture, and the neighborhood life that happens in between.

Our host here is @signyandesign, a design studio whose projects range across hotels, restaurants, galleries and shops, from the Tibetan plateau to central Shanghai — but which works from here in Chongqing.

Spend 24 hours exploring their version of Chongqing: the neighborhoods, buildings, and warm hospitality that make it worth the climb.

Comment “Chongqing” to receive the full guide with our design commentary for each stop ❇️

#chinamoderne #newchina #chongqing #cityguide taken in Chongqing by @signyandesign

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For ZUGORAMA House No.12, set within a century-old villa on Shanghai’s Yuyuan Road, we began with the existing fabric of the building—its proportions, material traces and accumulated sense of time. Rather than replacing the old, we introduced a new layer that allows different periods and textures to coexist. Conceived as a “theatre of everyday life,” the space brings together cooking, dining, work, fermentation and garden settings, with V-ZUG appliances integrated into daily use rather than displayed as objects. Through these overlapping layers of architecture, material and life, the house remains open to new rituals, relationships and traces of time.

Captured by @jonathan_leijonhufvud

#AdaptiveReuse #InteriorArchitecture #Materiality #BrandSpace
#signyandesign taken in 上海 Shanghai China by @signyandesign

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Seven years in the making, naive Jinshanling Hotel is a story of patience, adaptation, and building with the landscape rather than against it.

Nestled at the foot of the Great Wall, what began as an architectural idea gradually evolved into a quiet mountain village for reading, gathering and staying. Along the way, the site itself changed, opening new relationships between the building, the valley, and the community.

In this video, Xie Ke shares the story behind the project, and how time became one of its most important design materials.

#signyandesign #尚壹扬设计 #谢柯 #aranya by @signyandesign

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Jingmai Mountain is located in Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan Province—a land shaped jointly by ancient tea forests, villages, and mist. Around the 10th century AD, the ancestors of the Blang people migrated here and discovered and began making use of wild tea trees. Afterward, the Dai and other ethnic groups arrived and together they worked out a way of cultivation known as “under-forest tea.”

Over the millennium that followed, villages were built along the mountainside, and the tea forests spread and grew amid the mist. In 2023, this cultural landscape was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the world’s first World Heritage site themed around tea.

Here, tea trees grow within a forest formed jointly by trees, shrubs, ferns, mosses, and fungi. The relationship between people and forest is not a simple one of taking and using, but a mode of coexistence gradually worked out through long mutual adaptation over time. This coexistence has also settled into a wisdom of living passed down from generation to generation among the local people—what Jingmai has preserved is not merely an ancient tea forest, but an ancient way of living in harmony with nature.

“The mountain nurtures the tea, the tea cultivates the people, and the people protect the mountain.” The wisdom accumulated over generations on the tea mountain and in its villages is not built upon the conquest of nature, but is experience formed through living together with nature on the basis of understanding its order. Human beings are not managers standing outside the ecosystem, but have always been a part of it.

Jing Mai Lush Wellness Resort, led in design by Signyan, invites us to reconsider the meaning of “wellness.” It is not only about using nature to heal the body; more importantly, it is about bringing people back into the land, climate, and rhythms around them. When a person becomes part of the surrounding ecology, healing becomes simply the natural result of a restored relationship with one’s environment.

Captured by @george.d.fish @pian_fang

#signyandesign #fieldnotes #jingmaimountain #yunnan taken in 云南普洱 by @signyandesign

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“When we were children, nearly every house in the neighbourhood had a small courtyard. Kids would gather under the trees to play. Chongqing people are warm, open, and generous in spirit. Children grew up sharing meals with neighbours, moving from one home to another. That way of life—full of everyday warmth and closely woven with the people around you—is increasingly rare in cities today,” says Xie Ke.

In Xiahaoli, on Chongqing’s Nan’an side, we renovated an old courtyard house. Hidden within winding alleys, it offers a quiet retreat from the bustle of the city. Step through the gate, and it feels like returning to an old Chongqing held in memory: corridors turning and unfolding, window openings scattered in rhythm, light and shadow drifting through the space, gathering a quiet vitality in the courtyard.

Captured by @pian_fang

“ 小时候街坊邻居家门外都有一块小院坝，孩子们围在树下玩耍。重庆人性格好客外向，热情豪放，家家户户的孩子们吃着百家饭长大。那种带着浓郁烟火气，与周边紧密相连的生活状态，是如今都市里少见的。”

在重庆南岸下浩里，我们改造了一处老院子。蜿蜒的巷弄中，院子闹中取静。推门而入，仿佛回到记忆里的老重庆：廊道曲折、窗洞错落，光影流动间，院落聚气成趣。

我们将巴蜀民俗手工艺提取转译：柿染布艺、大漆、手工艺品，以轻松的方式在空间里重新呈现。川菜自带鲜活的生活气息，麻辣鲜香、热气腾腾；五湖四海的食材汇入一锅，空间与食物相互呼应，每一餐都承载生活的喜悦与真意。

吃一口记忆中有锅气的家常菜，喝一口老鹰茶，平淡生活里，也有滋有味。

摄影：偏方

#Chongqing #signyandesign #xieke #RestaurantDesign #AdaptiveReuse taken in Chongqing, China by @signyandesign

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We continue to explore the potential of natural materials and traditional craftsmanship in contemporary spaces, seeking to transform them into a design language that is both aesthetically refined and functionally relevant.

Rooted in traditional lacquer techniques, this research incorporates natural materials such as linen and handmade paper. Through a series of handcrafted processes—including mounting, saturation, layering, brushing, and polishing—we investigate the relationship between lacquer and different material substrates. The absorbency, texture, and fiber structure of each base material give every finish its own distinctive tactile quality and visual depth.

In contrast to the uniformity of industrially manufactured surfaces, handcrafted lacquer finishes retain the vitality of the materials themselves. The subtle undulations of fibers, the texture of paper, the traces left by hand-applied layers, and the gradual penetration of mineral pigments into the woven surface create an experience rich in warmth and craftsmanship. Every brushstroke and polished mark carries something of the maker’s mood and state of mind, allowing the material to develop its own imperfect yet expressive character.

In spatial applications, handcrafted lacquer finishes help soften the hardness of architectural surfaces, creating an atmosphere defined by low-contrast textures and subtle depth. Under changing light conditions, different layers of sheen and texture gradually emerge, enriching the sensory experience of a space.

captured by @bazingadom

我们持续关注天然材料与传统工艺在当代空间中的可能性，并尝试将其转化为具有现代审美与实用价值的设计语言。

这项研究以传统漆艺为基础，结合麻布、手工纸等天然材料，通过裱覆、浸润、涂刷、打磨等手工工序，探索漆与不同材质之间的关系。不同基底所呈现出的吸附性、肌理与纤维结构，赋予每一种饰面独特的触感与视觉层次。

相较于工业化生产的均质表面，手作漆饰面保留了材料本身的生命力。纤维的起伏、纸张的纹理、手工涂刷留下的细微痕迹，矿物颜料逐层渗透进织物肌理，构成一种更具手工温度的感知体验。每一道刷痕和打磨的痕迹，都带着手工者的情绪与状态，材料拥有了不标准但生动的“表情”。

在空间应用中，手作漆饰面能够柔化建筑界面的硬度，营造一种低对比度的肌理与氛围。在不同光线下，表面显现出不同层次的光泽与纹理，使空间获得更丰富的感知体验。

#Signyandesign #Xieke #interiormaterials #lacquer by @signyandesign

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Opened in early 2020 on the shores of Erhai Lake in Dali, Sisan Shuanglang Hotel @sisanhotel reinterprets traditional Bai architecture through a quiet contemporary lens. Reopened this May after a thoughtful renovation by Xie Ke and the Signyan Design, the hotel reflects a renewed vision of contemporary hospitality — rooted in locality yet shaped by a global sensibility. Curated objects, intuitive craftsmanship, soft rituals of daily care, and a seamless dialogue between village, nature, and space create a slower, a more lived-in, human-centered retreat experience.

Photography: Pianfang & Zhao Song

2020年初开业于大理洱海之畔的夕上双廊酒店，以安静而当代的方式重新诠释白族传统建筑。今年5月，酒店完成焕新改造，呈现出一种对于当代度假的重新思考——立足在地，却拥有世界语境的开放感。全球视野的选物、持续在场的手工建造、家和日常照顾的体验，以及村落、自然与空间之间的流动关系，共同营造出一种带着时间感的、更有人情味的度假体验。

摄影：偏方 & 赵松 by @signyandesign

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A new project by Signyan Design

The Naive Jinshanling Hotel is located in Aranya, beneath the Jinshanling Great Wall.

At the initial stage, the key challenges were how to work with the triangular sloping site and how to relate to the surrounding commercial context. Instead of creating a single, monolithic volume, we chose to break down the 5,000 sqm building into smaller fragments, forming a “mountain village” that lies low along the slope—like a leaf gently resting on the terrain.

During the construction process, an unexpected change occurred: the originally planned large-scale commercial development was canceled, leaving behind an open lawn of grass. As a result, this “leaf” became a natural backdrop to the surrounding community and valley, blending more seamlessly into its environment.

Naive Hotel is a hybrid space, comprising a bookstore, restaurant, and guest rooms. We prefer to think of it as “a study for creators”—a place to stay, reflect, and live, rather than a standardized hotel.

The village-like structure allows the spaces to be both connected and independent—the bookstore and restaurant are open to the community, while the hotel retains a sense of privacy. Guests can engage with the community, participate in outdoor and public life; and when they return to their rooms, they can enter a quieter, more introspective state of mountain living.

Photography @jonathan_leijonhufvud

在金山岭长城下的阿那亚社区，我们建造了一个Naive理想国酒店。

设计之初需要解决的问题是：场地本身三角形坡地的处理，以及与周边商业的关系。对此，我们没有做一个完整的大体量，而是把5000㎡的建筑“打碎”，变成一个匍匐在坡地上的“山地村落”，像一片树叶贴伏在地形上。

在建造过程中，原本规划的大体量商业被取消，留下了一整片开阔的草坪。于是，这片“树叶”变成了周边社区和山谷的天然对景，也更自然地融入环境。

Naive理想国是一个复合型空间，包含书店、餐厅和客房。我们更愿意把它理解为“创作者的书房”——一个可以停留、思考和生活的空间，而不只是标准化的酒店。

村落式的结构，让空间既连通又彼此独立——书店和餐厅对社区开放，而酒店又保留一定的私密性。我们希望客人既能体验社区的氛围，参与户外和公共生活；当回到房间时，又可以进入一种安静内向的山居状态。

#hoteldesign #尚壹扬设计 #xieke #谢柯 #signyandesign taken in 金山岭长城 by @signyandesign

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在广州的老城中心，我们设计了一家PAIX&PP Hokah 餐厅和酒吧，我们希望用轻松的有烟火气的感觉呈现一间有趣的餐厅和酒吧。设计by @signyandesign @xieke.505
#谢柯 #xieke #signyan #尚壹扬设计 by @signyandesign

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