Forest Flow

Emerging from the forest, resting within the soul.

2023-2024

Architecture Design

Interior Design

Architecture as a Living Presence

Forest Flow is a forest-immersed spa retreat designed to rekindle the innate resonance between people, architecture, and nature. It is not a structure imposed on the landscape, but a living presence—flowing roofs, translucent materials, and water-integrated courtyards form a spatial experience that engages both the forest and the human spirit.

A Spatial Prototype Shaped by Flow

Space is not “divided” but gradually grown under the guidance of natural forces. The overall layout unfolds around water, resembling terrain shaped through repeated erosion, forming a continuous and resilient spatial loop. Curves are not ornamental gestures, but responses to rhythms of movement, patterns of pause, and bodily perception.

Movement within the space is no longer a matter of linear arrival, but a guided wandering—passing through, lingering, looking back, and immersing. Architecture, landscape, and water are conceived at this stage as a single system, collectively shaping an organic order centered on sensory experience.

Gallery

Typologies

Wellness / Spa Retreat

State

Under Construction

Size

1507 sqm

Location

ZheJiang, China

Architecture Grown from the Landscape

Guided by the principles of organic architecture, Forest Flow conceives the built form as an extension of its surrounding environment rather than an imposed object. The roof articulates a continuous, topography-like surface that settles lightly upon the ground, recalling layers of fallen foliage. Vertical structural elements derive their logic from the adjacent forest, reinforcing a visual and spatial continuity with the woodland. Integrated water features reflect both architecture and occupants, subtly dissolving the boundary between material form, perception, and lived experience.

Atmosphere as Spatial Medium

Light and water are conceived as dynamic media operating across time rather than static environmental elements. The subtle movement of water continuously refracts and reflects light, generating shifting patterns that redefine spatial experience through temporal rhythms rather than fixed form. Within this framework, structure and materiality function as receptive and modulating agents, calibrated to amplify natural phenomena and bodily perception. Architecture thus recedes into a conditional presence, allowing space to emerge as an open perceptual system where time, environment, and human experience continuously intersect.

Space emerges through light, water, and time.

Space is understood as a temporary vessel for natural processes rather than a fully defined object. As light passes through structural thresholds, it is diffused and softened by water vapor and reflective surfaces, producing a condition suspended between clarity and ambiguity. Visual perception unfolds gradually through layered light, reflection, and atmosphere, encouraging a slow and introspective mode of experience. Within this framework, structure and materiality recede from expression and instead operate as mediators of natural phenomena—stone retaining moisture and temperature, water modulating rhythm and temporality, and openings admitting light without attempting to control it. Space thus emerges as a continuously evolving perceptual field shaped by the convergence of body, environment, and time.