Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay by Ying Zhu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Burunsi Premiu in Ukupi Kamay Competition Category.

BurunsiUkupi· 2025

Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay

by Ying Zhu

Client: Beijing Kunze Design Consulting Co., Ltd

A' Design Award Burunsi Premiu Winner in Ukupi Category

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The Design

About Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay

Yutaifeng nisqaqa huk resort hotel ukhu kawsaymi, Yingshan llaqtapi, China nacionpi tarikun, 6,300 metro cuadrado hatunniyuq. Kay diseñoqa chawpi yaku-t'ika patiopi churasqa kashan, hinaspa China nacionpa Jiangnan huerta kawsayninmanta yachakun. Huk hatun kuraq muyu wasi (dome) lobby-ta rikuchin, ichaqa bambú corredorkuna, corredor k'uchunkuna, tea wasikuna, mikhuna wasikuna hinaspa puñuna wasikunaqa huk huerta ñanwan tinkichisqa kashan, chay ñanpi ruwasqa arte llamkaykuna churasqa kashan. Kawsay materialkuna, sacha kaspi hinaspa textura pintura hina, industrial materialkunata rantinku. K'anchayqa k'anchaytan rikuchin manam fixturekunatachu, hinaspa sapa p'unchaypa tiemponkunapaq allinchasqa kashan.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Burunsi Premiu

Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay A' Design Award Burunsi Premiu mishak kan, jatun yupaychay, kayta mana shuk shina, mushuk yuyaypi, yuyaypi shinallatak chaskik kaypi riksishka diseñukunaman kun. Burunsi mishak kashkakunaka ruray ushayta charik shinallatak mancharina mushuk rurashkakunami, paykunata rurakkunapak achka yachayta, yuyayta shinallatak ruray ushayta rikuchinku. Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay sinchi yupaychashka, kuyashka shinallatak riksishka shuk ruray kanata munanku, ruray yuyaywan shinallatak mushuk yuyaywan. Kay Burunsi Premiu japishka diseñuka arti, siensia, diseñu shinallatak tekinolojíapi ashtawan alli ruraykunata tantachin shinallatak ima ukumanta rikuypi sumak kan. Yutaifeng Hotel Ukhu Kawsay mañaykunata alli paktachin, munaykunata llankan, shunkuta kuyachin shinallatak yachayta munayta kallarichin.

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