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Gold Interior · 2020

Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel

by Kevin Hu

  • Golden A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
  • CLIENT: HOTEL MoMc
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 20,997
  • Verification code D5FD38068F · Verify this award
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About Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel

Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Mountain is a resort hotel interior located in the Jiuhua Mountain scenic area of Chizhou City, China. The interior supports meditation, meeting, learning and rest. A reception hall, a meditation room, a leisure and discussion area and a tea room are arranged around a lotus pond, which forms a buffer zone and a viewing distance. Local materials such as brick, tile, wood and stone are used with modern building techniques. Courtyard corridors follow the direction of the mountains. The guest rooms follow themes drawn from local Hui culture and Buddhist thought.

About the Golden A' Design Award

Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Lotus Resort of Jiuhua Moutain Hotel creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Unique Properties
Lotus Zen tourism town is located in the core of the south side of the Dayuan Cultural Park in Jiuhua Mountain scenic area, Chizhou City, Anhui Province,China. It was built on the background of Jiuhua Mountain history and the Tibetan culture. The project is a Zen house of this town integrating various functions such as heart-building, self-cultivation, meeting and learning. It can also be used as a rest and living space for people coming here to experience.
Dimensions & Packaging
Each area of this project is filled with Chinese traditions and local characteristics, for instance, the lighting installation of the entrance reception hall is decorated with unique bamboo shape, which originally created by one of Taiwanese artists. This space is commonly used for lecture, Zen meditation, tea or flower ceremony and other public activities related to Buddhism.
Tags
Jiuhua Mountain, Buddhist culture, Zen house, H DESIGN
Production Technology
Situated in an open site surrounded by the mountains, the exterior of the building is covered with a wide layer of water, while the interior functional space is distributed around the lotus pond to create a buffer zone and viewing distance among the pedestrians. The architecture uses modern techniques that incorporate large amounts of local materials like brick, tile, wood and stone, and it was constructed to combine with the courtyard corridor in an undulation form, referred to general extension direction of the mountains, building a natural and peaceful world finally.
Design Challenge
It also reflects the designer's design thinking about the fusion of Jiuhua's local cultural history and contemporary space design.
Research
This project compromised the landscape of Jiuhua Mountain and the local Buddhist culture, highlighted the core of tourism and leisure resort functions, with a harmonious blend of people and space, space and architecture, architecture and nature, created such a traditional and tasteful yet equally modern building-a landscape of mountains and rivers with great oriental connotation.
Inspiration
Inside this project, reception hall, meditation room, leisure negotiation area, tea room and Chinese Circle are all arranged with the six senses of Eye, Nose, Ear, Body, Tongue and Meaning as the clues, representing what people see and hear, and even the whole spatial perception, blending natural landscape and cultural atmosphere to sublimate the space experience to the spiritual level.
Project Duration
2019.5, Chizhou City, China
Operation Flow
Zen Hall is deliberately drawn from the century old buildings in Anhui province, such as the lotus styling and the lighting ornaments, paintings are fully integrated into the overall space, increasing the sense of fit with the local natural and cultural environment. And the guest room area is built according to the different themes from local Hui culture and Buddhist thoughts, not least for the town, it is also a powerful attempt to integrate into the Jiuhua Mountain and the international tourism and culture demonstration zone of southern Anhui province.
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H DESIGN
Image Credits
Zhang Qilin

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