Silver Interior · 2020
Half of the Mountain Homestay
by Peng Zhang
- Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 17,978
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About Half of the Mountain Homestay
Half of the Mountain is a homestay interior located in the Maoshan scenic area of Jintan, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The design covers nearly 5000 square meters of building and interior space, set within a forest on a tea mountain. Traditional materials from the surroundings are used, including rammed earth, clay plaster, gravel, raw stone, timber, local bamboo, clay fired green tiles and black bricks. Guests can join tea picking, tea making and packaging activities. The intent is to present the local landscape, Taoist culture and craft traditions.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Half of the Mountain Homestay is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Half of the Mountain Homestay is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Half of the Mountain Homestay is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- Guests can fully feel the unique experience of the diversified space of our [half mountain] b&b in the inn, as well as the local landscape and Taoist culture that we are proud of, as well as the simple and natural style of Maoshan Mountain... ...
On the overall material transformation of the building, we take the traditional materials integrating with nature as the source point rammed earth, green tiles, raw stone, log, bamboo..., making the building renovation and regional landscape perfect. - Tags
- Nature, Eco-friendly, Traditional, Conventional, Innovation
- Production Technology
- We used local bamboo for our interior decoration and accessories, and also used a lot of rammed earth, clay plaster and gravel on the spot. The roof also used traditional clay fired green tiles and black bricks for our interior and exterior decoration.
- Design Challenge
- The weather of the scenic spot was variable, much of the conditions were rainy day, so that in the early site survey and acquisition of data, it was very difficult for us to do the research. As the owner hopes to be able to complete the construction in a short time to open for business, and the situation was the design area covering nearly 5000 square meters of the building and interior space, which need more than one month to complete the design work, the work intensity was very high.
- Research
- The materials of "rammed earth" and "clay plaster" used in the design, as well as the thermal insulation and insulation of the building roof and other decorative technologies, giving us a chance to get in touch with the old craftsmen who are good at these skills, and we also have more understanding and learning about the application of traditional Chinese architecture and materials.
- Inspiration
- In the design of this project, we not only refined the local culture, history and other design elements to integrate them, but also implanted the "traceless" in the space atmosphere, which is a perfect fusion of traditional and innovative design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in 1st January 2020 and finished in 10th February 2020 in scenic spot of Jintan Maoshan , Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.
- Operation Flow
- Project site is not only located in the forest, but also on a piece of tea mountain. We had been involved in the design of packaging design where the local tea and local products are sold, which also provide tourists to participate in the tea leaves, tea production and packaging production experience, and these products with local characteristics displayed in certain space for visitors to understand and purchase. It is driven by the local native residents income, also allows the local tourism to a virtuous cycle, visitors can also participate in a series of non-material cultural arts and crafts during the holidays.
- Patents
- Credits belong to Peng Zhang,2020.
- Image Credits
- Credits belong to Peng Zhang.
