The project aims to question current non-interventionism models of forest preservation in Longjing region, Hangzhou. This attitude towards forest management can be traced back to the Chinese government’s propagandistic ambition since the 1950s, which generated a series of strict regulations that restricted local tea farmers’ rights and tradition to inhabit, exploit and co-exist with the forest. The architecture manifests as part of the new community forest plan to empower locals to participate in the forest administration. It aims to re-establish the community’s core identity as forest residents while highlighting ecological concerns by providing places for inhabitation and infrastructures of forest preservation.

The proposed architecture grows with the forest, eventually becoming one with nature and vanishing with time. Poetically, the scheme mirrors the fate of individual tea farmers: In a hundred years, it will either hint at the details of people's joyful forest life, a paean to the people’s struggle against forest degradation, or be a monument in a decayed forest to warn future generations.