Alila Wuzhen Hotel by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Alila Wuzhen Hotel by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Goud in Argitektuur-, Gebou- en Struktuurontwerp Competition Category.

GoudArgitektuur· 2020

Alila Wuzhen Hotel

by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Client: GOA (Group of Architects)

A' Design Award in Goud Winner in Argitektuur Category

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The Design

About Alila Wuzhen Hotel

Alila Wuzhen is 'n hotel geïnspireer deur die waterdorpe suid van die Yangtze-rivier. Die algehele plan neem tradisionele dorpies van die streek as sy prototipe, en behou hul ruimtelike vorme, basiese elemente, gebouskale en kleurverhoudings. Direkte dekoratiewe elemente word vermy, en fyn materiale, eenvoudige strukture en stil moderne kleure word eerder gebruik. Wye glasoppervlakke, groot deurblaaie en diep oorhangende dakrande vorm 'n deurlopende en ordelike raamwerk. Strate, stegies en binnehowe kry nuwe funksies. Die hotel beslaan 25000 vierkante meter.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Goud

Alila Wuzhen Hotel is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Goud, 'n geweldig prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan eersteklas-, wonderlike en uitstaande ontwerpe. Wenners in Goud is uiters innoverende, visionêre en glansryk verblindende skeppings wat die vernuf, wysheid en bekwaamheid van hul ontwerpers weerspieël. Daar word verwag dat Alila Wuzhen Hotel 'n hoogs geprese, tendensskeppende en monumentale uitvinding is wat ongekende waarde lewer. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Goud gewen het, is 'n skouspelagtige, gerespekteerde projek wat die grense van kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie in hoë mate bevoordeel en uitbrei. Alila Wuzhen Hotel wek intense gevoelens van begeerte, roep passie op, moedig kreatiwiteit aan en boei ons.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This project overall pattern takes villages south of the Yangtze River as its prototype, and retains the spatial forms, basic elements, architectural scales and color relations of traditional tribes. The tranquil water surface and pure architectural form are well coordinated, which perfectly reflects the multi-level and semi-transparent relations between buildings, between buildings and plants, as well as between buildings and water surface.
Dimensions & Packaging: GFA: 25000 square meters
Tags: Maze, Minimalist, Village, Abstract, Nature
Production Technology: Extensive application of glass, large span of door leaf and large size of overhanging eave blend together, forming a continuous and orderly frame. With well-proportioned shapes, volumes of different sizes and orderly layout, the building meets various functional demands.
Design Challenge: In the “imitation” and “reconstruction” of water towns south of the Yangtze River, the hotel has completed its inheritance of local culture and the spatial prototype of villages south of the Yangtze River, and tallied well with the special demands of the hotel for “unconventional” experience and “dramatic” scenarios. In such a unique architectural community, the history has encountered with the contemporary era, and the image of a modern village in organic growth appears vividly.
Research: The hotel design followed the “minimalist” aesthetic tendency of Oriental culture, and the architect captured and extracted the concise, exquisite and silent aesthetic interest of buildings south of the Yangtze River, abandoned all straightforward decorative elements, and introduced fine materials, concise structures and quietly elegant colors with modern tones instead, so that individual buildings of pure forms can repetitively emerge and organically grow.
Inspiration: The hotel design followed the "minimalist"aesthetic tendency of Oriental culture, and the architect captured and extracted the concise, exquisite and silent aesthetic interest of buildings south of the Yangtze River, abandoned all straightforward decorative elements, and introduced fine materials, concise structures and quietly elegant colors with modern tones instead, so that individual buildings of pure forms can repetitively emerge and organically grow. "complicated cluster"constitutes the most important structural characteristic of traditional villages.
Project Duration: The project started design in 2014 and finished in 2018.
Operation Flow: The architects also explored the possibility of traditional space reconstruction, and endowed streets, lanes, courtyards and other spatial types with new functions and spirits; meanwhile, the well-proportioned spaces full of twists and turns, usually seen in classic villages south of the Yangtze River, are still inherited in this project.
Team Members: Interior Design: GOA, LANDTO Interior Design, BOB DESIGN OFFICE
Landscape Design: Z+T STUDIO
Image Credits: Video credits: SCHRAN and GOA
Photo credits: SCHRAN, GOA, Alila Wuzhen