Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店 by Newsdays Agency is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 建筑与结构设计 Competition Category.

银建筑· 2022

Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店

by Newsdays Agency

Client: Newsdays Agency

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 建筑 Category

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The Design

About Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店

东驿敦煌是一座位于中国甘肃敦煌沙漠近旁的酒店。设计汲取了当地西北传统建筑的元素,如土墙与晾房。墙体采用本地泥土夯筑而成,使酒店气质沉静,仿佛自土地中生长而出。项目用地面积41,541平方米,建筑面积10,299平方米。规划秉持静谧隐逸的理念,让宾客在休憩之余,感受敦煌的历史积淀与自然景观。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Dongyi Dunhuang 酒店是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Dunhuang is located at the border of Gansu and desert. This unique landform and profound cultural genes have created the diversity and splendor of Dunhuang a thousand years ago, also brings the possibility of close interaction between humans and ecology. And Dongyi Dunhuang is to create this possible connection. Travelers to experience the surprise of being secluded in the thousand-year history and natural landscape through Dongyi.
Dimensions & Packaging: Site area: 41,541 square meters
Building area: 10,299 square meters
Tags: Oriental aesthetics, Chinese style, Hidden world, Contemporary, Purely
Production Technology: The architectural design of Dongyi Dunhuang continues the thinking of the spiritual life of scholar-officials. It draws on the traditional northwestern residences such as the "earth wall" and "drying house" in Dunhuang. The rammed earth construction technique is built with locally produced mud embryos, thus making the building calm." "Hidden" in the overall surrounding environment, as if growing naturally.
Design Challenge: The Dongyi Dunhuang architectural cluster interprets people's demands for the current era, and the memories and emotions of the Dunhuang field are not only different from the surrounding buildings, but also mutually confirming.

It aims to use architecture as a carrier to create a realm of wabi-sabi from sand dunes to Gobi. The design is minimalist and the realm is secluded. It respects the texture and form of the material itself. It naturally forms an unbounded time in a bounded space.
Research: In this unique and ethereal area, Dongyi Dunhuang uses the form of architecture and space to provide guests who are far away with a place to hide and enjoy the pure Dunhuang experience.
This is a place where you can enjoy a high-quality experience.
This is a place where you can temporarily suffer from forgetting.
This is a delicate retreat.
Inspiration: What Dongyi Dunhuang plans is a place that can be hidden from the world and has an oriental aesthetic attitude.
"Hidden" is a unique and culturally significant behavior of the Chinese literati group. This kind of "hidden" temperament is often appealed to the image of boldness in the vast northwestern desert, retreating in the prosperous world, and clarifying oneself in the sparse world, declaring a kind of vigor and spirit, just like the Dongyi Dunhuang.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2018 in Dunhuang and finished in June 2021 in Dunhuang.
Operation Flow: "Dunhuang is like an old friend, but a new visitor. Thousands of years of history come with a new look. I hope to find some "possibility" to carry'her.' When introducing the Dongyi Dunhuang project, Chen Xiangjing, the chief designer of the Newsdays, expressed his expectations for Dunhuang. After many boutique hotel design practices, this stage seems to be the most mature time to explore the "possible Dunhuang". Dongyi Dunhuang is the base for finally realizing this "possibility".
Image Credits: YM Studio, Dongyi Dunhuang Hotel, 2021