Shaoxing Hotel by U a D is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Landscape Planning and Garden Design Competition Category.

SilverLandscape Design· 2023

Shaoxing Hotel

by U a D

Client: Uad

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Landscape Design Category

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The Design

About Shaoxing Hotel

Shaoxing Hotel Landscape is a garden design created for a hotel at the foot of Fushan Mountain in Shaoxing, China. The design follows the concept of green mountains and clear water, and connects the site with the local culture and the surrounding scenery. The landscape unfolds around three courtyards, named Qingbai, Ningcui and Tingyu, which express the themes of mountain, water and rain. Water, stones and bonsai form a scene like a three-dimensional scroll painting in front of the lobby. Existing trees are kept, and framed views link the courtyards with the distant mountain.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Shaoxing Hotel 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. Shaoxing Hotel 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. Shaoxing Hotel is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties: As mountain-facing landscapes are integrated and old and new building volumes are unified, Shaoxing Hotel achieves the transition from a generous welcoming atmosphere to the elegant and tranquil one. Landscapes inside the hotel unfold around Qingbai Courtyard, Ningcui Courtyard and Tingyu Courtyard, which express the natural themes of mountain, water, and rain, respectively.
Dimensions & Packaging: Project area: 44624 square meters
Type: Hotel
Tags: Shaoxing Hotel, Jiangnan-style, UAD, landscape design, traditional charm
Production Technology: Inspired by the painting the Hills of Kuaiji, the grand landscapes composed of water, stones and bonsai in Qingbai Courtyard appear like a quaint, vivid three-dimensional scroll painting in front of the hotel lobby.
Through modern techniques, Tingyu Courtyard reveals traditional charm. On rainy days, the drops on eaves fall into waterscape, while stacked stones are also gradually sunken. It's romantic to listen to the rain and look up at distant mountains while sitting in front of the courtyard.
Design Challenge: The time frame from schematic design to completion was limited within seven months. Within a tight schedule, the design team needed to handle a lot of tasks while fulfilling high requirements as well. The biggest challenge was how to connect the hotel with the local culture, how to create a dialogue with the site environment, and how to make upgrades based on the hotel's original style. These were also key points of the landscape design.
Research: Based on the nearby scenic Fushan Mountain Garden and traditional Chinese landscaping techniques such as "borrowing", "metaphorizing" and "analogy", the project creates a dialogue with mountain and water. Through drawing on local unique features, the design creates a distinctive landscape setting for Shaoxing Hotel, portraying a picture with lush trees, elegant pines and intoxicating seasonal sceneries. The project is highly recognized by the client, citizens, experts and the authority.
Inspiration: Shaoxing Hotel is located at the foot of Fushan Mountain in Shaoxing, an ancient city with a profound history. Based on this context, the landscape design aims to connect with the local culture, dialogue with the site environment, and make improvement based on the original style of the hotel. The landscape design takes the concept of "green mountain and clear water" to create a beautiful setting with luxuriant trees, elegant pines and intoxicating seasonal sceneries for the hotel.
Project Duration: PROJECT DURATION: 2018.04.20-2018.10.31
Location:Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China
Operation Flow: Pine bonsai at the entrance square of multi-functional hall echoes three mountains of the city, featuring the magnificent ambience of thousand-seat banquet room. Stones, pine trees and bamboos become framed views for VIP reception room.
Green waterscape and plants in the courtyard echo the distant lush green mountain.
Reserved luxuriant trees in the courtyard integrate with the lushly green mountain in the distance, full of poetry.
Team Members: Wu Weiling
Xu Conghua
Wang Jietao
Hu Huifeng
Zhang Chi
Tang Zerong
Zhu Jing
Ao Dandan
Yao Haiyan
He Ying
Wu Di
Lin Teng
Gu Jingxian
Huang Jingyi
Liu Qing
Image Credits: An Yanjun