Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina by Kaifeng Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Hale, Kūkulu a me Hōʻuluʻulu Competition Category.

KeleaweHoʻolālā Hale· 2023

Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina

by Kaifeng Zhang

Client: Zhangkaifeng Architectural Design Firm

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Hoʻolālā Hale Category

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The Design

About Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina

He hale ʻaina ʻo Rocha Cook i kūkulu ʻia ma kahi luawai mauna kokoke i Chengdu, Kina. ʻO ka papahana ke kūkulu hou ʻana o kahi hale kahiko i puni ʻia e ka nahele, ma kahi ʻāina e nānā aku ai i ke kūlanakauhale ma lalo. Hoʻonohonoho ʻia nā paia keʻokeʻo ma kahi ʻano geometric puehu a hana i mau pale e ʻae aku i ka mālamalama a me ke aka e hele ma waena o nā ʻāpana. Hoʻoheheʻe ʻia ke kūkulu ʻana i ka concrete, a hoʻopau ʻia nā paia ma waho me ka pena noʻeau keʻokeʻo. He 266 mika hapaha ka ʻāpana kūkulu a he 6.9 mika ke kiʻekiʻe o ka hale. Hahai ke kumu hoʻolālā i kahi ʻano naturalist.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Rocha Cook Hale ʻAina i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Back on June 3, 2019, The designer came here for the first time in the scorching summer. After nearly two months of site selection, The designer finally came to this mountain depression, saw an old house wrapped by the forest, climbed up the roof and was pleasantly surprised to see the whole city. Sitting on the courtyard wall, The designer began to imagine what kind of house to build at the designer feet. It should be natural, romantic, naive, quiet and passionate.
Dimensions & Packaging: Floor area: 6000 Square meters
Building area: 266 Square meters
Building height: 6.9 Meter
Tags: White House, The Most Beautiful Sunset Restaurant, Boundless Swimming Pool, Overlooking the City, Romantic Mid Levels.
Production Technology: Simple design materials, the whole is poured from concrete structure, and the outer wall adopts white art paint.
Design Challenge: In the reconstruction of old houses, the designers need to face some government conditions and changes in the nature of land, and meet the building specifications to achieve good design results.
After nearly three years of design and construction, Rocha cook encountered a rare rainstorm that washed away the foundation, experienced the once-in-a-century heavy snowfall and mountain closure in Chengdu, and survived the panic of the outbreak of the epidemic.
Research: The design technique is good at deconstructing a set of expression forms in line with modern aesthetics and cognition in the classical architectural structure based on naturalism and oriental aesthetics. It interprets elegant, artistic and fashionable works through modern materials combined with current popular colors, maintains its own unique aesthetic standards in the field of architecture and interior design, and successfully shapes one modern space with naturalistic charm after another.
Inspiration: White walls grow out of the soil, and they are freely combined into a barrier. The scattered relationship makes the light and shadow have different gaps to drill. Around here, you will be fascinated by a long picture like scenery. In the distance is the city the designers love. Turning around, the designers can see that the geometrically arranged walls sprout in the soil, like growing buildings. In fact, they are also alive.
Project Duration: Address: Chengdu City, China
Design Time: 2019.08
Completion Time: 2022.03
DesignStyle: Naturalism
Operation Flow: Exploration site, design, demolition, structural pouring, facade decoration, interior decoration, soft decoration yard and completion.
Image Credits: ProjectPhotography: ArchImageDengJuntao
Project Video: Zhu Jinfei、Li Yalong
Shooting design: April 25, 2022