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

Alila Wuzhen Hôtel by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Or in Design d'Architecture, Bâtiment et Structure Competition Category.

OrArchitecture· 2020

Alila Wuzhen Hôtel

by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Client: GOA (Group of Architects)

A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Architecture Category

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The Design

About Alila Wuzhen Hôtel

Alila Wuzhen est un hôtel inspiré des bourgs d'eau du sud du fleuve Yangtsé. Le plan d'ensemble prend pour prototype les villages traditionnels de la région et en conserve les formes spatiales, les éléments fondamentaux, les échelles bâties et les rapports chromatiques. Les éléments décoratifs directs sont évités au profit de matériaux nobles, de structures épurées et de couleurs modernes et apaisées. De larges surfaces vitrées, de grands vantaux de portes et de profonds avant-toits en surplomb composent une trame continue et ordonnée. Les rues, ruelles et cours se voient attribuer de nouvelles fonctions. L'hôtel s'étend sur 25 000 mètres carrés.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Or

Alila Wuzhen Hôtel est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or, une reconnaissance immensément prestigieuse décernée à des designs de premier ordre, merveilleux et remarquables. Les lauréats Or sont des créations extrêmement innovantes, visionnaires et d'un éclat glamour éblouissant, qui reflètent le génie, la sagesse et la maîtrise de leurs concepteurs. Alila Wuzhen Hôtel est censé être une invention très louée, avant-gardiste et monumentale, qui apporte une valeur sans précédent. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Or est un projet spectaculaire et respecté qui sert grandement l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Alila Wuzhen Hôtel crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.

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