Yutaifeng Hotel by Ying Zhu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2025
Yutaifeng Hotel
by Ying Zhu
Client: Beijing Kunze Design Consulting Co., Ltd
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Yutaifeng Hotel
Yutaifeng is a resort hotel interior located in Yingshan, China, with a total area of 6,300 square meters. The design is arranged around a central waterscape courtyard and draws on Chinese Jiangnan garden culture. A large dome marks the lobby, while bamboo corridors, corridor corners, tea rooms, restaurants and guest rooms are linked by a garden route along which artworks are placed. Natural materials such as wood and textured paint replace industrial synthetic materials. The lighting reveals light rather than fixtures and is adjusted for different times of day.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Yutaifeng Hotel is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Yutaifeng Hotel is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Yutaifeng Hotel splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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We specialize in creating sophisticated hotel and commercial interiors that blend Eastern cultural aesthetics with contemporary design. With 20 years of experience and international recognition including the prestigious A' Design Award, we transform spaces into immersive experiences that honor tradition while embracing modernity.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The hotel is built around a central waterscape courtyard, integrating Chinese Jiangnan culture into contemporary exquisite life aesthetics, and integrating it with architecture, landscape, interior, and humanistic design. Traveling through various areas of the hotel, exploring the perceptual impressions of the garden and scale, and feeling the unique oriental charm and atmosphere, people can experience tranquility and peace in person.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
We are committed to studying the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space, expressing design concepts with personalized and unique visual language, and interpreting Chinese cultural elements with new visual communication. We use contemporaneity, culture, artistry, and integration and symbiosis as design language for spatial expression. We seek design inspiration from the commonality and collision between tradition and the present, and seek the spiritual appeal of design culture in the combination of historical memory fragments and current thoughts.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I will continue to participate in competitions, share them with people around the world, and spread Chinese culture.
Behind the Design
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- Unique Properties
- Push open the door of the hotel and walk slowly into the lobby. The huge dome has an oriental aesthetic temperament, with a very contrasting scale, impacting people's visual experience. Passing through the hazy layers, you will find that the wonderful water landscape is hidden behind it. The oriental charm hits you in the face, and the noise of the city has disappeared.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The space functions as a hotel with a total area of 6,300 square meters.
- Tags
- hotel, oriental, zen, modern, art
- Production Technology
- In terms of material application, natural materials such as wood and textured paint are selected to avoid the use of industrial synthetic materials, responding to the relationship with nature with sustainable materials. In terms of lighting design, the principle of seeing light instead of lamps and liberating the ceiling is advocated, and the design is carried out according to the requirements of light in different time periods to achieve sustainable energy utilization.
- Design Challenge
- As a resort hotel brand that advocates connection with nature, how to more closely connect culture and nature is a challenge for both designers and brands. From the moment you arrive at the hotel, the presentation of artworks, the design of the roof garden, the natural landscapes cleverly interspersed in the public areas, and the organic crop planting areas are all responses to nature.
- Research
- The designer is committed to studying the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space, expressing the design concept with personalized and unique visual language, and interpreting Chinese cultural elements with new visual communication. Contemporaneity, culture, artistry, integration and symbiosis are used as design language for spatial expression. The inspiration for design is sought from the commonality and collision between tradition and the present, and the spiritual appeal of design culture is sought in the combination of historical memory fragments and current thoughts.
- Inspiration
- The hotel is built around a central waterscape courtyard, integrating Chinese Jiangnan culture into contemporary exquisite life aesthetics, and integrating it with architecture, landscape, interior, and humanistic design. Traveling through various areas of the hotel, exploring the perceptual impressions of the garden and scale, and feeling the unique oriental charm and atmosphere, people can experience tranquility and peace in person.
- Project Duration
- The project is located in Yingshan, China and was designed in March 2024.
- Operation Flow
- Various works of art are cleverly placed in the carefully planned Jiangnan garden tour route, echoing the designer's hope to present a spatial artistic conception of changing scenery with every step and different emotions in each scene: in the hazy and winding bamboo corridors, in the quiet and elegant corners of the corridors, in the tea room, in the restaurant, at the corners of the staircases, in other aesthetic spaces of life, and even in every guest room, you can feel the presence of art.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Ying Zhu, 2024.
- Team Members
- Ying Zhu
- Image Credits
- Beijing Kunze Design
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