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

Alila Wuzhen Отель by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Золотая премия A' Design Award in Архитектура, строительство и проектирование конструкций Competition Category.

ЗолотаяАрхитектура· 2020

Alila Wuzhen Отель

by Lu Hao and Zhang Xun - G O A

Client: GOA (Group of Architects)

Золотая премия A' Design Award Winner in Архитектура Category

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The Design

About Alila Wuzhen Отель

Alila Wuzhen — отель, вдохновлённый водными городками к югу от реки Янцзы. Общий генеральный план основан на прототипе традиционных деревень этого региона: сохранены их пространственные формы, базовые элементы, масштаб застройки и колористические соотношения. Прямые декоративные элементы исключены — вместо них применены благородные материалы, простые конструкции и спокойные современные цвета. Широкие остеклённые плоскости, крупные дверные полотна и глубокие выносы карнизов образуют непрерывный и упорядоченный каркас. Улицы, переулки и внутренние дворы наделены новыми функциями. Площадь отеля составляет 25 000 квадратных метров.

The Recognition

About the Золотая премия A' Design Award

Alila Wuzhen Отель — лауреат Золотой премии A' Design Award, неимоверно престижного признания, присуждаемого первоклассным, восхитительным и выдающимся проектам. Обладатели Золотой премии — это чрезвычайно инновационные, провидческие и ослепительно блестящие творения, отражающие гений, мудрость и мастерство их авторов. Ожидается, что Alila Wuzhen Отель станет высоко превозносимым, задающим тренды и монументальным изобретением, обеспечивающим беспрецедентную ценность. Этот проект, получивший Золотую премию A' Design Award, — впечатляющая, уважаемая работа, которая приносит большую пользу и раздвигает границы искусства, науки, дизайна и технологий. Alila Wuzhen Отель вызывает сильное чувство желания, пробуждает страсть, побуждает к творчеству и завораживает нас.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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