This hereditary home of the Yi people, whose traditions are imbued with a worship of the mountains and a sense of ritual for life. By combining the traditional rituals of the ancient Yi people with modern tourism functions, the designers at Western Line Studio have created a building with a volume similar to a traditional Yi altar, accessed through a ceremonial ramp and establishing a dialogue with the sky through a system of skylights; thus creating a wordless monument and a historical consensus structure.

The project is a government-led cultural tourism public facility located in the mountains of southwest China. The local landscape structure and Yi culture give the design concept, which is and serves as a response to the local history. Founded in 2004, Westline Studio is a Chinese design team with a diverse background in international collaboration... Western Line Studio focuses on the basic working model of geo-order + community model + spirit of place + composite construction, which not only helps to maintain the stability of the original existence and emotional texture of the geo-site, but also helps to achieve a symbiotic structure of existence of site order and spirit of place in the context of contemporary universal society, effectively preserving the humanistic skeleton of the geo-site and finding the Public life. Over the years, Westline Studio has received over 40 international awards, including the German Design Award, the CivicTrust Awards International Award, the Chicago International Architecture Award and the International Architecture Award. Westline Studio has been invited to participate in the Venice International Architecture Biennale China Pavilion Exhibition, the Athens International Architecture Exhibition and Milan Design Week Asia.