The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging by Naoyuki Aoki is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Hospitality, Recreation, Travel and Tourism Design Competition Category.
SilverHospitality· 2021
The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging
by Naoyuki Aoki
Client: BAMBOO FOREST Co., Ltd
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Hospitality Category
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About The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging
The Bamboo Forest is a glamping accommodation facility located next to a zoo in Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture. The site covers a gross floor area of 2000 square meters and holds six accommodation buildings made of steel tents, cotton tents and wooden structures. Each building has an interior named after and inspired by an animal from the neighboring zoos. Guests can eat breakfast beside giraffes and feed capybaras and lemurs. The quiet bamboo grove setting is intended to offer rest and learning for visitors from nearby cities.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Bamboo Forest Simple Lodging is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- This is leisure facilities in collaboration zoo and glamping. If you stay there, you can touch animals a anytime. For example, you can have a breakfast with giraffes, and you can experience feed capybara, lemur and other animals. Adults are healed their mind, and children are learned at there through such experiences. A leisure facility where you can experience new things.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- GFA: 2000 square meters
- Tags
- glamping, animal therapy, nature hotels, bamboo grove, outdoors
- Production Technology
- Steel tent, Cotton tent and Wooden building
- Design Challenge
- The difference from the usual glamping facility is that it is located next to the zoo and you can experience interacting with animals. The six accommodation buildings have naming interiors inspired by the animals of "Sayuri World" and the sister garden "Ichihara Elephant Country", and are combined with "Zoo" and "Bamboo Forest" to create a normal glamp in terms of both hardware and software. I was conscious of a design that makes you feel more healed, which hides the line from the ping facility.
- Research
- The project started from the thoughts of Mr. Sakamoto, the director of the national garden of Ichihara Elephant, but I was conscious of making it a project that will lead to the revitalization of zoos nationwide, where the number of customers is decreasing due to the declining birthrate by making this project successful. We aimed to provide a place where we can provide "healing" and "learning,"; which are said to be in high demand in today's stressful society.
- Inspiration
- Started after receiving a consultation from Ms.Sakamoto the director of Zounokuni at Ichihara. In today's society, where many people are exhausted from work and daily urban life and are seeking opportunities to refresh their minds and bodies, the healing effect of being surrounded by nature and animals is highly evaluated. Located in a location that is easily accessible by car from central Tokyo, this facility will be an urban oasis in a stressed society.
- Project Duration
- The project started design in 2019 and finished in 2020 at Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture.
- Operation Flow
- The project started from the thoughts of Mr. Sakamoto, the director of the national garden of Ichihara Elephant, but I was conscious of making it a project that would lead to the revitalization of zoos nationwide, where the number of customers is decreasing due to the declining birthrate by making this project successful. We aimed to provide a place where we can provide "healing" and "learning,"; which are said to be in high demand in today's stressful society.
- Team Members
- Sayuri Sakamoto, Sayuri World, Zounokuni of Ichihara/ Naoyuki Aoki, Chisato Maruyama COPLUS Co.,Ltd./ Tetsushi Ishibashi, Shuhei Shibayama, Republica
- Image Credits
- Naoyuki Aoki
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