Iron Architecture · 2025
House 4021 Architectural
by Shanghai Canwei Construction Co., Ltd.
- A' Design Award 2025 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Shanghai Canwei Construction Co., Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 9,915
- Verification code DB56DE9534 · Verify this award
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About House 4021 Architectural
House 4021 is a vacation accommodation building located in Danzhou, Hainan, China, set between mountains and the sea. The building uses staggered terraced volumes that recall rolling waves and mountain contours. The overhangs shade the glass curtain walls below during periods of intense sun. The facade is made of treated aluminum panels patterned after waves and sand, giving weather resistance in the seaside climate. The rooftop holds an ecological garden and an infinity pool with indigenous plants. The total area is 2583.04 square meters.
About the A' Design Award
House 4021 Architectural is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. House 4021 Architectural is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. House 4021 Architectural is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The house is situated in Danzhou City, Hainan, China, surrounded by mountain and sea. The rooftop area includes an ecological garden and an infinity pool, enhancing the relaxing experience with indigenous plants. Adhering to a minimalist approach, the house is composed of natural materials and open spaces to foster harmony between the structure and its coastal surroundings.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 2583.04 square meters
- Tags
- Architecture, Vacation, Homestay, Independent, Modernism
- Production Technology
- The facade features aluminum panels adorned with a pattern that emulates the natural textures of waves and sand, allowing it to seamlessly integrate with the coastal landscape. When illuminated by sunlight, the surface texture of the aluminum panels shifts, rendering an array of visual effects. These specially treated panels exhibit exceptional weather resistance, ensuring durability against the challenging seaside climate.
- Design Challenge
- To maximize the integration of landscape enhancement with thermal performance optimization, the team employed parametric trajectories to create a series of terraced setback blocks. This design allows the overhangs on each level to provide adequate shading for the lower glass curtain wall during the period of intense sun exposure, facilitating a good passive shading effect and ensuring that the guest rooms on each floor can fully access to the landscape.
- Research
- To harmonize the structure with the natural landscape of mountains and sea, the staggered design reflects the rolling waves and the mountain contours, reconciling with the surrounding environment. The incorporation of locally suitable vegetation around the building creates a landscape zone that complements the architectural style, enhancing the building's integration with nature and forming a cohesive entity.
- Inspiration
- The team aims to reimagine the regional vacation experience in line with the architectural principles. By employing a staggered terraced massing, the project seeks to mitigate the imposing scale of the structure along the coastline, and expects the building to look unaffected, just like a plant growing from the coastline. This approach ensures the provision of modern vacation comforts and preserves the inherent beauty of the mountains and ocean.
- Project Duration
- Situated in Danzhou, Hainan, the design work commenced in Shanghai in February 2021 and reached completion in May of the same year.
- Operation Flow
- The rooftop swimming pool and outdoor recreation area on the third floor are accessible via a dedicated elevator, ensuring complete separation from the guest accommodations. Additionally, the left side of the fourth floor is a closed garden, which serves as an ecological barrier through the use of hanging plants.
- Patents
- Shanghai Canwei Construction Co., Ltd.
- Image Credits
- Shanghai Canwei Construction Co., Ltd.