Muh Shoou Xixi Hôtel by Shawn Cheung - GOA 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
Muh Shoou Xixi Hôtel
Client: GOA (Group of Architects）
A' Design Award d'Or Winner in Architecture Category
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About Muh Shoou Xixi Hôtel
Muh Shoou Xixi est un hôtel implanté au cœur de la zone humide de Xixi. L'établissement résulte de la réhabilitation de cinq bâtiments anciens présents sur le site. La transformation structurelle a été menée avec une intervention minimale, afin que les bâtiments s'articulent harmonieusement avec la forêt et le réseau hydrographique environnants. Les arbres dont le tronc mesure 10 centimètres de diamètre ou plus ont été recensés par espèce, par nom et par niveau d'enracinement, et l'implantation respecte la végétation d'origine, composée principalement de plaqueminiers. Une salle de banquet de 300 mètres carrés est ceinturée de baies vitrées sur trois côtés. Une voie d'eau tracée d'après le relief originel permet d'arriver en bateau.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award d'Or
Muh Shoou Xixi 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. Muh Shoou Xixi 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. Muh Shoou Xixi Hôtel crée de vifs sentiments de désir, éveille la passion, encourage la créativité et nous fascine.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project boasts typical wetland ecology with water path, land route as well as native vegetation surrounding.
There are many kinds of plants surrounding the hotel, most of them are persimmon trees, among which the oldest tree is 100-year-old. The building team recorded root elevation, species and names of all trees with DBH of 10 cm one by one, and "weaved" the building into the environment so as to adapt to the layout of the original vegetation. - Dimensions & Packaging
- GFA: 7000 square meters
- Tags
- integrate nature into design and reconstructing landscape
- Production Technology
- The banquet hall with plentiful lights is surrounded by 270 ° French window, and its indoor space covering an area of 300 ㎡ seamless blend with outdoor natural forests, lawns and waterside terrace. It would be a unique experience to hold a banquet, clothing show, auto show or any other activities in a such a forest-like place.
The design of water route is based on the original land-form of the wetland, enabling people who are accustomed to land transporting to travel along the ancient waterway to the hotel. In the water waves stirred by the oars, people could appreciate the beauty of Xixi Wetland from a different perspective. - Design Challenge
- The hotel is renovated from five old buildings originally on this site. The challenge to architects is how to meet the needs of modern hotels in an ecologically optimal way. After making a large number of on-site investigations, architects completed the structural transformation and integrated system layout with extremely minimal intervention, so that the building could be connected with surrounding forest and water system smoothly.
- Research
- The hotel is renovated from five old buildings originally on this site. The challenge to architects is how to meet the needs of modern hotels in an ecologically optimal way. After making a large number of on-site investigations, architects completed the structural transformation and integrated system layout with extremely minimal intervention, so that the building could be connected with surrounding forest and water system smoothly. There are many kinds of plants surrounding the hotel, most of them are persimmon trees, among which the oldest tree is 100-year-old. The building team recorded root elevation, species and names of all trees with DBH of 10 cm one by one, and "weaved" the building into the environment so as to adapt to the layout of the original vegetation.
- Inspiration
- Muh Shoou Xixi originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature so as to pray for the harvest of the coming year. That's just where the name of Muh Shoou Xixi comes. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland - coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion - to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture.
- Project Duration
- The project started design in 2015 and finished in 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of Xixi Wetland - coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion - to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture.
- Team Members
- Chief Architect: Zhang Xiaoxiao
Landscape Design: Z+T Studio, Landscape Architects - Image Credits
- photographer: SHIROMIO Studio, Three Wind, ZHOU Yijin
Vedio copyrights: SHIROMIO Studio and GOA
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