Oro Architettura · 2020
Alila Wuzhen Hotel
by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A
- A' Design Award d'Oro 2020 in Architettura
- CLIENT: GOA (Group of Architects)
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 32,383
- Verification code 4513404E38 · Verify this award
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About Alila Wuzhen Hotel
Alila Wuzhen è un hotel ispirato alle città d'acqua a sud del fiume Yangtze. Il progetto complessivo assume come prototipo i villaggi tradizionali della regione, conservandone le forme spaziali, gli elementi fondamentali, le scale costruttive e i rapporti cromatici. Si evitano elementi decorativi diretti, privilegiando invece materiali pregiati, strutture semplici e colori moderni e discreti. Ampie superfici vetrate, grandi battenti delle porte e profonde gronde a sbalzo formano una cornice continua e ordinata. A strade, vicoli e cortili vengono attribuite nuove funzioni. L'hotel si estende su 25.000 metri quadrati.
About the A' Design Award d'Oro
Alila Wuzhen Hotel ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Oro, un riconoscimento immensamente prestigioso conferito a design di primissima qualità, meravigliosi e straordinari. I vincitori d'Oro sono creazioni estremamente innovative, visionarie e di un fascino abbagliante che riflettono il genio, la saggezza e l'abilità dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Alila Wuzhen Hotel sia un'invenzione molto elogiata, all'avanguardia e monumentale che offre un valore senza precedenti. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Oro è un progetto spettacolare e rispettato che giova grandemente ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Alila Wuzhen Hotel crea intensi sentimenti di desiderio, risveglia la passione, incoraggia la creatività e ci affascina.
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- 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.
- Image Credits
- Video credits: SCHRAN and GOA
Photo credits: SCHRAN, GOA, Alila Wuzhen
