A Former Sales Office on Jinfo Mountain Is Now a 24-Room Hotel Built From Salvaged Materials

A five-level former sales office on Jinfo Mountain in Chongqing, south-west China, has been turned into a 24-room hotel. Much of what went into the building was already there, or came from nearby.

The Cloudhaus Hotel sits at an altitude of 1,200 metres (about 3,900 feet) on the mountain's northern slope. Chinese studio RooMoo carried out the conversion and kept the original structure of the building, according to Dezeen, the design news website, which reported the project on 12 November 2026.

From the outside, the hotel has a white rendered facade, meaning its walls are coated in a smooth, plaster-like finish. Eight projecting white frames run vertically across the building's elevations, the faces of the structure that look out in each direction.

Inside, the salvage work is easy to spot. RooMoo used timber from abandoned wooden cabins in the area. Some walls are built from concrete cores, the cylinders of concrete taken out during structural renovation. These are stacked on end and separated by dark metal supports. Red bricks from the demolished parts of the building went into the restaurant.

Bamboo appears in several places. Discarded bamboo scaffolding treads, the boards workers stand on, were cut into strips. Those strips became ceiling panels and outdoor paving. Reception has decorative wall panels made from bamboo-shoot shells, which were gathered locally from the mountains.

The restaurant occupies an expanded podium, a raised base, on the building's lower level. Diners move from indoor seating out onto outdoor terraces. Guests arrive by a different route. Reception is on the uppermost floor, reached from an entrance courtyard and a connecting bridge.

For guests, the building's earlier life is never far away. A brick wall, a ceiling panel or a stack of concrete can all be traced back to a part of the site that was once taken out, or once cut down. The hotel's design keeps those pieces in plain sight.