Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera by Ying Zhu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

ParahiRoto Whare· 2025

Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera

by Ying Zhu

Client: Beijing Kunze Design Consulting Co., Ltd

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera

Ko Yutaifeng he roro hōtera okiokinga kei Yingshan, Haina, e 6,300 mita tapawha te rahi katoa. Kua whakaritea te hoahoa huri noa i tetahi marae wai i te pokapū, me te tiki whakaaro mai i te ahurea māra Jiangnan o Haina. Ko tetahi kohatu nui e tohu ana i te ruma powhiri, ā, ko ngā ara kōhuru kakaho, ngā koki ara, ngā ruma tī, ngā wharekai me ngā ruma manuhiri e hono ana e tetahi ara māra e whakanohoia ai ngā mahi toi. Ko ngā rauemi taiao pēnei i te rākau me te peita ānō he kiko e whakakapi ana i ngā rauemi hangahanga ahumahi. Ko te whakamārama e whakaatu ana i te māramatanga kaua ko ngā taputapu, ā, kua whakaritea kia rite ki ngā wā rerekē o te rā.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a Yutaifeng Roro Hōtera i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Push open the door of the hotel and walk slowly into the lobby. The huge dome has an oriental aesthetic temperament, with a very contrasting scale, impacting people's visual experience. Passing through the hazy layers, you will find that the wonderful water landscape is hidden behind it. The oriental charm hits you in the face, and the noise of the city has disappeared.
Dimensions & Packaging: The space functions as a hotel with a total area of 6,300 square meters.
Tags: hotel, oriental, zen, modern, art
Production Technology: In terms of material application, natural materials such as wood and textured paint are selected to avoid the use of industrial synthetic materials, responding to the relationship with nature with sustainable materials. In terms of lighting design, the principle of seeing light instead of lamps and liberating the ceiling is advocated, and the design is carried out according to the requirements of light in different time periods to achieve sustainable energy utilization.
Design Challenge: As a resort hotel brand that advocates connection with nature, how to more closely connect culture and nature is a challenge for both designers and brands. From the moment you arrive at the hotel, the presentation of artworks, the design of the roof garden, the natural landscapes cleverly interspersed in the public areas, and the organic crop planting areas are all responses to nature.
Research: The designer is committed to studying the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space, expressing the design concept with personalized and unique visual language, and interpreting Chinese cultural elements with new visual communication. Contemporaneity, culture, artistry, integration and symbiosis are used as design language for spatial expression. The inspiration for design is sought from the commonality and collision between tradition and the present, and the spiritual appeal of design culture is sought in the combination of historical memory fragments and current thoughts.
Inspiration: The hotel is built around a central waterscape courtyard, integrating Chinese Jiangnan culture into contemporary exquisite life aesthetics, and integrating it with architecture, landscape, interior, and humanistic design. Traveling through various areas of the hotel, exploring the perceptual impressions of the garden and scale, and feeling the unique oriental charm and atmosphere, people can experience tranquility and peace in person.
Project Duration: The project is located in Yingshan, China and was designed in March 2024.
Operation Flow: Various works of art are cleverly placed in the carefully planned Jiangnan garden tour route, echoing the designer's hope to present a spatial artistic conception of changing scenery with every step and different emotions in each scene: in the hazy and winding bamboo corridors, in the quiet and elegant corners of the corridors, in the tea room, in the restaurant, at the corners of the staircases, in other aesthetic spaces of life, and even in every guest room, you can feel the presence of art.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Ying Zhu, 2024.
Team Members: Ying Zhu
Image Credits: Beijing Kunze Design