Bronze Interior · 2023
Oasis Sustainable Hotel
by Liyang Chen and Zhengyan Jiang
- Bronze A' Design Award 2023 in Interior
- CLIENT: Tainan University of Technology/Interior Design Department
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 22,841
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About Oasis Sustainable Hotel
Oasis hotel is a sustainable recreation hotel decorated with the concept of natural architecture, most of the original appearances from the abandoned old building was preserved, least construction material used and built in simplest way. Plants and lights, the essentials elements were integrated into the whole environment. One can feel the traces of time from the exposed original building texture, floor-to-ceiling glass windows at the lobby allow skylights on all sides forms a dreamy glass house, an ideal space for tourist or business travel find an escape in the modern busy city.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Oasis Sustainable Hotel is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Oasis Sustainable Hotel is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Oasis Sustainable Hotel splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- To refresh and reborn an abandoned hospital building for years, a sustainable recreation hotel was proposed. Most of the original appearance from the old building is preserved, maximizing sunshine and natural breeze to flow into the building, and the space is decorated and integrated into the environment with the lowest consumption materials and in the simplest way. Full of vines and climbing plants cling on the pillars in the hotel lobby, lively plants decorated in guest rooms and rooftop bar, creating the whole building with natural sunlight and greenery space, like an oasis in a concrete city.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Gross Built Area: 5950 sqm
Rooms: 25 Villa rooms
Facilities:Gym Room, Indoor Rock Climbing Wall, Flora Classroom, Art gallery, Outdoor swimming pool, Open-air coffee bar, Sky restaurant, Rooftop bar. - Tags
- Hotel, Sustainable, Leisure, Natural Architecture, Plants, Nature, Bar, Cafe, Rock Climbing, Art Gallery
- Production Technology
- Taking "natural architecture" as the design concept, the original appearance of a large number of old buildings is preserved, and the space is decorated and integrated into the environment with the lowest consumption materials and in the simplest way. Planting and light are two important elements of natural architecture. Discarded steel bars are used as the branches of the iron tree in the hall. Reuse driftwood or dead wood into furniture. Discarded shrimp and crab cages are reused as lamps.
- Design Challenge
- Original of the site was a hospital that was abandoned for more than three decade and the building was in disrepair, within the building, column structure was quite dense. In order to revive the dilapidated building, how to refresh and reborn this abandoned building to be restore vitality again. Maximizing sunshine and natural breeze to flow into the building, and to create a space for tourist or business travel find an escape in the modern busy city.
- Research
- Research how to integrate local culture and nature into architecture in a highly developed environment, so that architecture is no longer just a building, but a bridge between man and nature.
- Inspiration
- With the high development of the city, natural environment will inevitably shrink or disappear within cities, people are gradually moving away from nature. Moreover, many old buildings were abandoned especially in mega cities, idle waste of spaces. To create natural buildings that coexist with nature and plants, have become a new landscape in contemporary architecture. Reborn of the building by combining environmentally friendly building materials, soft light ambient and greenery plants, to create a hotel escape in the city.
- Project Duration
- This project started from July 2022, finished by April 2023 in Tainan, Taiwan. First Debut on May 2023 in NanGang World Trade Center,Taipei.
- Operation Flow
- In every corner of the hotel, you will not feel only the building, but the unprecedented warmth and vitality brought by the plants. Keeping the concept that stepping into the hotel is a relaxing vacation, carefully design each place to make people linger and forget to return.
- Image Credits
- Image #1~#5: Liyang Chen
