Argento Architettura · 2022
Greenbay Casa vacanze
by Xi Lang
- A' Design Award d'Argento 2022 in Architettura
- CLIENT: Shall Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 16,682
- Verification code 2AB0116A44 · Verify this award
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About Greenbay Casa vacanze
Greenbay è una casa vacanze realizzata nella città di Ya'an, nella provincia del Sichuan, in Cina. L'edificio sorge tra piantagioni di tè terrazzate, con vista sul paesaggio del tè a sud e sulla ferrovia Sichuan-Tibet a nord. La pianta ricorda un fiocco di neve esagonale e accoglie tre aree: una zona pubblica, tredici camere per gli ospiti e un'area logistica. Un atrio esterno triangolare costituisce il fulcro centrale dell'edificio. Gli interni impiegano il legno con tonalità bianche e grigie. Ampie superfici trasparenti aprono gli ambienti verso le piantagioni di tè e riducono l'impatto sull'ecologia locale.
About the A' Design Award d'Argento
Greenbay Casa vacanze ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Greenbay Casa vacanze sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Greenbay Casa vacanze è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Situated in Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, this project boasts an excellent 270 degree view of tea fields to the south and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway to the north with the tea shore sitting between the undulating hills and surrounded by a green sea of tea. The design narrows the distance between the building and the environment with a focus on visitors’ experience and less impact on the nature.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The building totals over 1,700 square meters and the overall floor area is about 2,700 square meters. The project consists of three main functional areas: a public area, 13 guest rooms and logistics.
- Tags
- Homestay, Tea Sea, Original Ecology, Triangle, GREENBAY
- Production Technology
- The triangular outdoor atrium is a hollow hub space of the building, around which a series of high and low, wide and narrow, closed and open spatial patterns are formed. The interior design mostly adopts wood, white and grey colors, creating a simple and welcoming style that gives visitors a sense of comfort and simplicity in a secluded countryside. The animal-shaped decorations are simple, stylish and approachable, giving visitors a sense of novelty and being in nature. Also, in order to maximize users’ experience and blend perfectly with the nature, designers leverage the large-scale transparent style rather than the traditional suburban courtyard-style, letting visitors be in a sea of tea.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge is to avoid damage to the original ecological environment as the project sits in a sea of tea. Also, the building design has to provide best lighting and landscape view for each guest room and make each zone blend naturally with others so as to give the most comfortable experience for visitors.
- Research
- Mengding Mountain, the cradle of the world tea culture, is the earliest place in China to manually cultivate tea according to written record. Qilong Village sits here with layers of terraced tea fields, which is a perfect place for the construction of this project.
- Inspiration
- With inspiration from undulating tea fields, the main body of the building resembles a floating hexagonal snowflake, with the three areas relating to the three axes of the 'snowflake'. Each area is clearly divided - except for the logistics office, other two areas both feature a landscape surface of over 120 degrees. Visitors inside the building can have a full view of the tea sea.
- Project Duration
- With location being selected in 2019, the project kicked off and completed the construction in 2020, and later officially open to the public in 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The design places huge emphasis on the variety and rhythm of space. Upon entering the room, a two-storey height lobby, a large space in which visitors can have a clear picture, comes into the sight. This is followed by a thin corridor with a connecting bridge overhead, where the interior gradually comes into view. The atrium is a three-dimensional high space formed through indoor-outdoor terraces of different heights, reflecting the most diverse aspects of the Green Bay. Then water scenery and a multi-purpose hall sit there next, setting the tone for the final lounge space, which opens up completely and is combined with a sloping reading area to have most scenery be seen from inside.
