The invention relates to a design method of a mountain land building, in particular relates to a mountainous land building design method based on an ARCVIEW GIS (geographic information system) 3.2 platform. At present, common methods for mountainous land building design are hand drawing, CAD (computer-aided design) drawing, 3DMAX, SU (sketch up), manual model research and the like, and the design methods tend to two-dimensional and static research. The mountainous land building design method based on the ARCVIEW GIS 3.2 technology, which is provided by the invention, comprises the following steps of: 1, collecting data; 2, creating a spatial database; 3, building a digital elevation model (DEM); 4, carrying out morphological analysis; 5, carrying out landscape analysis; 6, carrying out traffic analysis; and 7, carrying out engineering technology analysis. The method is a quantitative and qualitative scientific analysis method for mountainous land building design, and spatial analysis, three-dimensional analysis and image analysis functions and data management ability of the method can be applied to research on multiple aspects of mountainous land building design, thus the design method disclosed by the invention has a considerable prospect.