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

Alila Wuzhen Hotel by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Aur in Design de Arhitectură, Clădiri și Structuri Competition Category.


AurArhitectură· 2020

Alila Wuzhen Hotel

by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Client: GOA (Group of Architects)

A' Design Award de Aur Winner in Arhitectură Category

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The Design

About Alila Wuzhen Hotel

Alila Wuzhen este un hotel inspirat de orașele pe apă din sudul fluviului Yangtze. Planul general are ca prototip satele tradiționale ale regiunii și păstrează formele spațiale, elementele de bază, scara construcțiilor și relațiile cromatice ale acestora. Elementele decorative directe sunt evitate, fiind folosite în schimb materiale fine, structuri simple și culori moderne, discrete. Suprafețele vitrate largi, foile mari de ușă și streșinile adânci în consolă formează un cadru continuu și ordonat. Străzile, aleile și curțile primesc funcțiuni noi. Hotelul se întinde pe 25000 de metri pătrați.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Aur

Alila Wuzhen Hotel a câștigat A' Design Award de Aur, o recunoaștere nespus de prestigioasă acordată designurilor de prim rang, minunate și remarcabile. Câștigătorii Aurului sunt creații extrem de inovatoare, vizionare și orbitor de strălucitoare, care reflectă geniul, înțelepciunea și măiestria designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Alila Wuzhen Hotel să fie o invenție foarte lăudată, creatoare de tendințe și monumentală, care oferă o valoare fără precedent. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Aur este un proiect spectaculos și respectat, care aduce mari beneficii și împinge limitele artei, științei, designului și tehnologiei. Alila Wuzhen Hotel creează sentimente intense de dorință, trezește pasiunea, încurajează creativitatea și fascinează.

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

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