Project Overview

The hotel is located in Yantou Town, Yongjia County, Wenzhou City, in the valley plain of the middle reaches of Nanxi River. Nanxi River is famous for its clean water, amazing rocks, large number of waterfalls, ancient villages and beautiful beaches. It has been rated as one of the 40 most beautiful scenic spots in China by CNN, reflecting the perfect artistic conception of Chinese classical ink and wash painting.
We hope to create a local hotel holiday experience and improve the service system of our resort town. On the one hand, we wish to combine local conditions with the village spatial form of local characteristics. On the other hand, with the concept of natural mountain restoration, we hope to balance the hotel volume in the complex terrain for the buildings to be integrated into the nature, and to fully utilize the surrounding landscape resources.

Project Commissioner

Yongjia Nanjia Tourism Development Co., Ltd&BlueTown TaoliChunfeng Construction Group

Project Creator

Zhejiang Qingmo Engineering Design Co.Ltd

Team

Architect: Yu Gang, Bao Peipei, Zhang Zhichao, Tong Jun, He Chenhao, Pan Yong, Qian Xunjian

Project Brief

The main building is composed of several individual building blocks under the planed height limit requirements and conforms to the mountain trend to form a backward overall layout.
With a fire limit of 24 meters, the main body of the hotel is divided into high and low areas, with the public area set in the middle. The seemingly inadvertently changed way of access gives the public space a better view of the landscape. The public area combines the entrance reception, lobby and bar with the indoor and outdoor grey space and the terrace to form an organic whole, forming a well-arranged architectural form, so that the space experience can be continuous.
The orientations of the hotel rooms are based on the consideration of countryside and mountain forest landscape resources on different elevation line of sights, and follow the flexible design principle of "moving with the scenery". Within the ranges of the base's green and ecological mountains, we built single-mountain-view guest rooms (pile dwelling), which are integrated into the mountain forest.

Project Innovation/Need

On the one hand, it combines with the terrain, on the other hand, it fully combines the characteristics of the local ancient villages, and responds to the brand connotation of indige Hotel, so as to create a resort hotel integrating local culture, people, geography and environment, highlighting the local experience.
In the public area of the hotel, an open-air borderless pool was built which faces the optimal landscape and reflects the distant mountains in the water, giving expression to the local Fengshui pattern of "pen dipping into the ink". In ancient Chinese villages, where there is a Wenbi peak, in front of the village there must be a natural or artificial pond, called an inkstone, in which the Wenbi peak is reflected.
In Yongjia, the forms of mountain dwellings are as follows: there are several kinds of treatment according to the mountain situation, namely “一”shaped long house, slope-climbing, staggered floor, falling and attached to the rock. We try to make the relationship between buildings and mountains more harmonious through the study of geogenicity.
Yongjia's “一”shaped long houses and long houses with many courtyards are all characterized by horizontal development. We continue this feature in the hotel, creating a rich facade form and connecting space in an organic way.

Design Challenge

First: the hotel is located in the abandoned quarry site, with the cliff covering one third of the site, and only part of the mountain is in good ecological condition. On one hand, it is a difficult problem of mountain restoration and protection, on the other hand, it is how to balance artificial and natural.
Second：the project also needs to ensure the sufficient space of 160 guest rooms under the limitation of the site, so as to meet the balance of experience and economic benefits.
Third: the design difficulty lies in the temporary lack of reference. The resort town where the hotel is located is in a newly developed state, and there are no competing products around the hotel. This requires the design must be forward-looking, fully combined with local characteristics, to create an independent label, which can stand the test of the market in the future.

Sustainability

Material: The hotel is located in the south of Zhejiang province. Along the way, there are many ancient villages with rough rocks and logs, which set off against several white walls, revealing the nature, original shape and natural color of natural materials. The timber and rubble used in the facade of the hotel is sourced locally, reducing the cost of construction, while at the same time imprinting the site through the study of local processing techniques, giving a sense of intimacy.
Environment: The hotel retains the cliff-wall landscape and is partially covered with green plants and terraced fields on the hillside slope. On one hand, it retains the original geomorphic features and on the other hand, it creates a comfortable and livable green environment.
Energy: The eaves of the local dwellings are deep, and the form of opening doors and Windows is free and transparent, creating an extremely vivid building facade. The eaves of the hotel absorb this feature, hoping to deepen people's impression of the place, and play the role of shading in summer and wind protection in winter. Low-E glass, has a good effect of heat insulation. In addition, the slope roof design is combined with solar photovoltaic panels for the daily energy consumption of the hotel.

Architecture - Commercial - International Hospitality

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