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

Alila Wuzhen Otèl by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Lò in Achitekti Competition Category.

LòAchitekti· 2020

Alila Wuzhen Otèl

by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Client: GOA (Group of Architects)

A' Design Award Lò Winner in Achitekti Category

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The Design

About Alila Wuzhen Otèl

Alila Wuzhen se yon otèl ki enspire pa ti vil sou dlo ki nan sid Rivyè Yangtze la. Plan jeneral la pran vilaj tradisyonèl rejyon an kòm modèl li, epi li konsève fòm espasyal yo, eleman debaz yo, echèl bilding yo ak relasyon koulè yo. Yo evite eleman dekoratif dirèk, epi olye de sa yo itilize bon materyo, estrikti senp ak koulè modèn ki kalm. Gwo sifas an vit, gwo batan pòt ak lonje twati ki soti fon fòme yon ankadreman kontinyèl e byen òdone. Lari, ti riyèl ak lakou yo resevwa nouvo fonksyon. Otèl la kouvri 25000 mèt kare.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Lò

Alila Wuzhen Otèl se yon ganyan A' Design Award Lò, yon rekonesans imans prestijye yo bay design premye klas, mèvèye e eksepsyonèl. Ganyan Lò yo se kreyasyon ki trè inovatè, vizyonè e ki briye ak bèl bagay, ki reflete jeni, sajès ak mèt konpetans designer yo. Yo atann Alila Wuzhen Otèl pou se yon envansyon ki fè anpil lwanj, ki bay tandans e monimantal ki delivre yon valè san parèy. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Lò se yon pwojè espektakilè, respekte ki pote anpil benefis e ki pouse limit atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji. Alila Wuzhen Otèl kreye santiman dezi ki entans, li reveye pasyon, li ankouraje kreyativite e li fasine nou.

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