Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze da Ke Chen, Mengxi Xu and Jiahua Xu

U designu Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze da Ke Chen, Mengxi Xu and Jiahua Xu hè un vincitore altamente stimatu di u prestigiosu premiu 2026 A' Design Award di Bronzu in a Categuria di Cumpetizione Disignu d'Architettura.

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Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze

da Ke Chen, Mengxi Xu and Jiahua Xu

Cliente: Not A Hotel

Vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Bronzu in a Categuria Architettura

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U Cuncepimentu

À propositu di Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze

Mio Path of Water hè una casa di vacanze cuncepita per u clima custieru piuvosu di Yakushima, in Giappone. L'ospiti ghjunghjenu sottu à un'entrata cuperta è passanu per un porticu di piova asciuttu prima d'entre in un core di soghjornu è sala da manghjà chì face fronte à l'oceanu. Trè suite di camere si ramificanu cum'è stanze tranquille, ognuna cù un bagnu privatu, per ch'elli i gruppi possinu sparte a casa senza perde a so intimità. Una spa seguita un percorsu simplice di sauna, bagnu fretu, bagnu è terrazza di rinfrescamentu. A struttura combina l'acciaiu cù un tettu di legnu massicciu espostu, è un rivestimentu di cedru carbunizatu prutege a facciata.

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À propositu di u A' Design Award di Bronzu

Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Bronzu, una ricunniscenza assai prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni eccellenti chì si distinguenu per a creatività, l'ingegnu è l'acutezza. I vincitori di Bronzu sò artefatti largamente abili è sorprendentemente creativi chì autenticanu a vasta sperienza, l'imaginazione è l'ingegnosità di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze sia un oggettu assai apprezzatu, ammiratu è caru, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è innuvatore. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Bronzu incorpora e migliori pratiche di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia è hè eccellente per l'attinzione à i detaglii. Mio Path of Water Casa di Vacanze suddisfa splendidamente i bisogni, tocca i disideri, incanta i sentimenti è chjama a curiusità.

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Pruprietà Uniche: The project is on Yakushima’s maritime edge, where mist, downpour, and slow runoff are daily facts, the house is organized from the rooms outward. Each suite is a calibrated “channel” of water-as-experience: the shared areas stay quiet and supportive. Only after these three acts are set does the living space frame its context: sea at distance, pool nearby—two waters held on one calm line. The primary structure material of the house is steel—precise, slender, and resilient—so the rooms read cleanly. Only the living space departs from that language: here an exposed heavy-timber roof lifts the volume and warms it. The result is a house that makes weather into ambience, routine, and memory.
Dimensioni è Imballaghju: Height 9000 mm; Total floor area 298 sqm; construction area (incl. terraces) 586 sqm. Program: L/D, kitchen; 3 bedrooms each with 2× semi-double beds 1,200×1,950 mm + ensuite WC & shower. Spa: changing, sauna, cold plunge, bath, shower + adjacent cooling terrace. Pool depth 1,200 mm. Covered parking 2 bays. Outdoor equipment storage shed 70 sqm.
Etichette: Yakushima, hospitality villa, wet-climate design, rain porch, sauna loop, indoor-outdoor living, charred cedar façade, ocean-view courtyard, modular arcade, minimalist timber architecture
Tecnulugia di Pruduzzione: Designed through iterative massing + view studies in Rhino/Grasshopper, then coordinated for constructability and lifecycle cost. Adaptive-reuse strategy uses hybrid structure system of steel and heavy timber to maximize constructability. Facade system: Shou Sugi Ban (Yakisugi) cedar cladding rainscreen + low-iron glazed wall with concealed frames; modular standing seam metal roof for tolerance control. CG/diagrams produced via real-time rendering + AI/PS post-compositing.
Sfida di Designu: The hardest challenge was reconciling Yakushima’s extreme rain, salt wind, and humidity with an open, resort-like lifestyle without turning the house into a sealed “box.” Internally, the concept had to respect local craft traditions while still feeling contemporary. Externally, strict competition limits (height, area, parking, pool/spa program) forced tight stacking and efficient circulation. Limited site-specific data pushed us to validate decisions through climate mapping, precedent benchmarking, and repeated plan/section tests until performance and experience aligned.
Ricerca: Applied site-response study. Objective: Yakushima villa for rain/humidity, privacy, ocean views. Method: fast plan/section iterations + guest-flow loop tests. Data/tools: climate/topo maps, precedents; Rhino/Grasshopper, AI implemented representation, render checks. Participants: designer + peer critiques. Result: rain-porch entry, bedroom pods, sauna-plunge-bath loop. Insight/impact: fewer conflicts, higher comfort; reusable wet-climate layout template.
Ispirazione: "Mio" is a shallow water channel in Japanese: not a scene, a guide. The project adopts that ethic—draw clear paths and let climate do the rest. What Mio proposes is to let private rooms carry climate as character—morning mist, sudden shower, still flow—while a single timbered hall reads the site without theatrics. The result is a house that makes weather into ambience, routine, and memory.
Durata di u Prugettu: The project was a design package for initiated in September 2025 and completed in February 2026 as a hospitality villa proposal for Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, and subsequently prepared for submission to the A’ Design Award.
Flussu Operativu: Guests arrive under the covered "porte-cochère" and enter a dry “rain porch” that transitions into the living/dining core facing the ocean. Bedrooms branch off like quiet nests, each with a private bath, so groups can share without stepping on each other’s rhythm. The spa is a simple loop: change - sauna - cold plunge - hot bath/shower - cool-down terrace, repeating as needed. Indoor and outdoor spaces slide into one another, letting the house work in sun, wind, and rain with minimal effort.
Brevetti: Copyrights belong to Ke Chen, Mengxi Xu, Jiahua Xu, 2026.
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Membri di a Squadra: Ke Chen
Mengxi Xu
Jiahua Xu
Crediti d'Imagine: Image #1: Creator (Design Team Lead) Jiahua Xu, Yakushima Villa Concept (NOT A HOTEL 2026), 2026.
Image #2: Creator (Design Team Lead) Jiahua Xu, Yakushima Villa Concept (NOT A HOTEL 2026), 2026.
Image #3: Creator (Design Team) Ke Chen, Yakushima Villa Concept (NOT A HOTEL 2026), 2026.
Image #4: Creator (Design Team) Mengxi Xu, Yakushima Villa Concept (NOT A HOTEL 2026), 2026.
Image #5: Creator (Design Team) Mengxi Xu, Yakushima Villa Concept (NOT A HOTEL 2026), 2026.