The Yingde Singwood Masterplan envisions a mountain resort that harmoniously integrates wellness tourism with the region’s natural and cultural landscape. Set across 404 hectares of lush hills, rice fields, and rivers in northern Guangzhou, the plan includes two hot spring hotels, a central village hub, and single-storey courtyard villas carefully arranged to follow the terrain’s contours.
A manmade lake serves both as an irrigation reservoir and a scenic focal point, while the architectural language draws from vernacular traditions to preserve a sense of place. By weaving ecological infrastructure with low-impact design, the masterplan offers a tranquil, immersive experience that celebrates nature without compromising it.
Location
Yingde, Guangzhou, China
Completion
2015
GFA
40,4686 ha
Client
Yingde Singwood Development Co., Ltd
Services
Masterplanning, Architecture
Serenity by Design: Lakeside Wellness Retreat
Set against a dramatic mountain backdrop, this visual captures the tranquil heart of the Yingde Singwood Masterplan—an elegant lakeside resort where architecture dissolves into nature. The linear pools, cherry blossom trees, and open fire elements are carefully arranged to frame uninterrupted views across water and hills, cultivating an atmosphere of meditative calm.
Designed to promote rest and reflection, the space merges therapeutic landscapes with modern leisure, embodying the project’s ethos of low-impact, wellness-centered mountain living.
Riverside Courtyard Living: A Sequence of Wellness and Privacy
This aerial view reveals the refined spatial choreography of the Yingde Singwood Masterplan’s resort villas, where architecture is sensitively arranged between mountain and water. A central landscaped spine organizes a rhythmic sequence of private courtyards, pavilions, and communal spaces, gradually transitioning from riverfront leisure to hillside retreat. Every unit is positioned to maximize privacy while maintaining framed views and natural ventilation. This configuration promotes walkability, layered interaction, and seamless blending between built form and the surrounding ecology—defining a new standard for resort living rooted in landscape and wellness.
The spatial rhythm encourages a gentle pace of life, where guests move intuitively between personal sanctuaries and collective experiences.
Resort Urbanism Rooted in Nature
The masterplan for Yingde Singwood is shaped by the site’s natural topography, embracing the mountains and lakes as structuring elements for a resort-driven, low-impact urbanism. Spread organically across the undulating terrain, development clusters are arranged to preserve key view corridors and maintain ecological continuity. At the heart lies the lakeside civic and hospitality core—an ensemble of hotels, cultural venues, and public amenities that anchor the broader network of hillside villas and nature-based retreats. This layered approach allows guests and residents to experience a journey through gradients of privacy, program, and scenery—where each path, courtyard, and open space contributes to a larger narrative of wellness, place identity, and immersive landscape living. A continuous network of pedestrian-friendly routes enhances mobility while promoting slow, scenic exploration.
The result is a masterplan that integrates architecture and nature to form a timeless, restorative destination.
Yingde Singwood Masterplan - Architectural Design
Singwood Resort Villa Phase 1
Alila Lakeside Hotel
Alila Hotspring Spa
The Yingde Singwood Masterplan culminates in a harmonious blend of architecture, landscape, and wellness—where every spatial gesture is attuned to its mountainous setting. From serene water edges to layered courtyard living, the development redefines resort urbanism as an immersive experience rooted in nature, privacy, and calm. Through thoughtful planning and elegant restraint, it establishes a timeless sanctuary that nurtures both community and introspection amidst the tranquility of the hills.
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