Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel
by Kevin Hu
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: HOTEL MoMc
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 20,848
- Verification code D5FD38068F · Verify this award
About Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel
Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Mountain is a resort hotel interior located in the Jiuhua Mountain scenic area of Chizhou City, China. The interior supports meditation, meeting, learning and rest. A reception hall, a meditation room, a leisure and discussion area and a tea room are arranged around a lotus pond, which forms a buffer zone and a viewing distance. Local materials such as brick, tile, wood and stone are used with modern building techniques. Courtyard corridors follow the direction of the mountains. The guest rooms follow themes drawn from local Hui culture and Buddhist thought.
The Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel, conceived by designer Kevin Hu and recognized with the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design, exemplifies a profound synthesis of natural materiality and refined spatial choreography that positions the work within contemporary biophilic design discourse while drawing upon deep wells of traditional aesthetic philosophy. The reception area captured here demonstrates exceptional command of material dialogue, where the commanding presence of a live-edge timber desk, preserving the organic memory of its source through spectacular burl figuring and undulating contours, establishes an immediate connection between the built environment and the natural world beyond. This substantial wooden element, supported upon a cool-toned stone plinth, engages in productive tension between the warm chromatic register of earth tones and the mineral coolness of its base, a duality that extends throughout the spatial composition. The pendant luminaire descending through the double-height void appears to reference lotus forms or perhaps the exposed root systems of aquatic plants, its golden tendrils creating a biomorphic accent that bridges ceiling and desk while introducing a vertical rhythm within the predominantly horizontal composition. The limestone wall surfaces, arranged in carefully proportioned ashlar courses, provide a luminous backdrop that receives and redistributes the carefully calibrated indirect lighting, creating subtle gradients of warmth that transform the architectural surfaces into active participants in the atmospheric construction. The sculptural element upon the desk, featuring what appears to be carved jade or alabaster set within a naturalistic rocky formation, introduces contemplative focal points that reward extended viewing while suggesting cultural continuities with scholar rock traditions. Visitors might consider how this threshold space prepares consciousness for the experiences beyond, functioning simultaneously as functional reception and meditative antechamber.
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- Unique Properties
- Lotus Zen tourism town is located in the core of the south side of the Dayuan Cultural Park in Jiuhua Mountain scenic area, Chizhou City, Anhui Province,China. It was built on the background of Jiuhua Mountain history and the Tibetan culture. The project is a Zen house of this town integrating various functions such as heart-building, self-cultivation, meeting and learning. It can also be used as a rest and living space for people coming here to experience.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each area of this project is filled with Chinese traditions and local characteristics, for instance, the lighting installation of the entrance reception hall is decorated with unique bamboo shape, which originally created by one of Taiwanese artists. This space is commonly used for lecture, Zen meditation, tea or flower ceremony and other public activities related to Buddhism.
- Tags
- Jiuhua Mountain, Buddhist culture, Zen house, H DESIGN
- Production Technology
- Situated in an open site surrounded by the mountains, the exterior of the building is covered with a wide layer of water, while the interior functional space is distributed around the lotus pond to create a buffer zone and viewing distance among the pedestrians. The architecture uses modern techniques that incorporate large amounts of local materials like brick, tile, wood and stone, and it was constructed to combine with the courtyard corridor in an undulation form, referred to general extension direction of the mountains, building a natural and peaceful world finally.
- Design Challenge
- It also reflects the designer's design thinking about the fusion of Jiuhua's local cultural history and contemporary space design.
- Project Duration
- 2019.5, Chizhou City, China
- Operation Flow
- Zen Hall is deliberately drawn from the century old buildings in Anhui province, such as the lotus styling and the lighting ornaments, paintings are fully integrated into the overall space, increasing the sense of fit with the local natural and cultural environment. And the guest room area is built according to the different themes from local Hui culture and Buddhist thoughts, not least for the town, it is also a powerful attempt to integrate into the Jiuhua Mountain and the international tourism and culture demonstration zone of southern Anhui province.
- Research
- This project compromised the landscape of Jiuhua Mountain and the local Buddhist culture, highlighted the core of tourism and leisure resort functions, with a harmonious blend of people and space, space and architecture, architecture and nature, created such a traditional and tasteful yet equally modern building-a landscape of mountains and rivers with great oriental connotation.
- Inspiration
- Inside this project, reception hall, meditation room, leisure negotiation area, tea room and Chinese Circle are all arranged with the six senses of Eye, Nose, Ear, Body, Tongue and Meaning as the clues, representing what people see and hear, and even the whole spatial perception, blending natural landscape and cultural atmosphere to sublimate the space experience to the spiritual level.
- Image Credits
- Zhang Qilin
- Patents
- H DESIGN
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