Silver Interior · 2021
Joel Alli Resort Hotel Reception Center
by Hongfei Yan
- Silver A' Design Award 2021 in Interior
- CLIENT: WJ Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,277
- Verification code E0A53A9907 · Verify this award
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About Joel Alli Resort Hotel Reception Center
Joel Alli Resort is a hotel reception center located in the Moganshan Scenic Area in Deqing, China. The interior covers 580 square meters at the foot of a mountain. The design connects the building with the surrounding nature. Natural elements such as mountains, water, clouds and bamboo guide the layout. Ceiling heights and widths change according to the function of each area. Glass walls extend the view from cloud-shaped lanterns to the distant hills. The lobby desk is made of century-old wood, cut to show its original growth rings.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Joel Alli Resort Hotel Reception Center 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. Joel Alli Resort Hotel Reception Center 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. Joel Alli Resort Hotel Reception Center is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- As a reception center, the design idea of this project is to establish a strong connection between construction and nature. In order to create a sense of nature indoor, designers used different elements to design the space, such as mountain, water, clouds and bamboos. They used different spatial heights and width base on the space functions and find a balance between the construction and the nature.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 580 square meters.
- Tags
- Interior, Commercial, Hotel, Modern, Resort, Mountain, Water, Clouds, Bamboos
- Production Technology
- Designers chose the most natural materials, use the original texture and primary colors of the material to create new ideas. For example, the front desk of lobby was made of a century-old wood through a special cut. It is plain and nice. Visitors do not only see the original annual rings on the desk but also feel the respect that they shall have to the great nature.
- Design Challenge
- Taking life and vacation as the base point, the space is designed to create a vacationing atmosphere. With the change of the height and width of the terrain, designers try to take the space as a frame and take the natural environment as the scene to form a harmonious symbiosis with nature. When visitors come, whether they walk along the bar or sit in the relax area, they can always look far away or take a glance and see different scenery.
- Research
- The project is located in Moganshan Scenic Area, one of the top four summer resorts in China. It is a paradise located in the Yangtze River Delta. The reception center is located at the foot of the mountain and surrounded by mountains. We did not want to damage the natural environment so we tried to create a connection between interior and exterior environment by using a lot of local elements such as water, cloud, bamboo, and mountain.
- Inspiration
- The project is located in Moganshan Scenic Area, one of the top four summer resorts in China. There are six hilltops, a reservoir and unique natural ecological resources. The reception center is located at the foot of the mountain and surrounded by mountains. Designers did not want to damage the natural environment so they tried to create a connection between interior and exterior environment by using a lot of local elements such as water, cloud, bamboo, and mountain.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2019 in Deqing and finished in August 2019 in Deqing.
- Operation Flow
- The glass wall extends visitors' views from the indoor cloud-shaped lanterns to the distant mountains, to create a casual, relaxed atmosphere, so people here can really calm down and relax, also enjoy the peace.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, 2019.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, Reception Hall, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, Reception Desk, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, Corridor, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, Entrance, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Qiang Shen and Yujie Liu, Rest Area, 2019.
