Gold Architectural Lighting · 2023
Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design
by Alex Xu
- A' Design Award 2023 Gold Winner in Architectural Lighting
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: Alex Xu
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About Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel Lighting Design
Huzhou Science Valley Homm Hotel is an architectural lighting design for a resort hotel in Huzhou, China. The resort covers 24,000 square meters and includes 178 guest rooms and villas arranged around a central lobby. Light is used to emphasize the character of the interior design, to express spatial hierarchy and to create visual focus. Warm color temperatures, selected light sources, measured illumination levels and a lighting control system support a calm and restful atmosphere. The design refers to local tea culture and Zen tradition.
Within the distinguished tradition of architectural lighting design that seeks to honor cultural heritage while embracing contemporary expression, this luminous composition by AlexXu&Partners presents a masterful meditation on temporal dialogue and spatial reverence, the work positions itself at the intersection of modernist restraint and classical Eastern architectural vocabulary, employing light as the primary medium through which these seemingly disparate traditions achieve harmonious synthesis, the technical achievement lies in the careful calibration of color temperatures and intensities that allow the warm amber illumination of the traditional pavilion to glow as if from within while the cooler twilight atmosphere wraps the ensemble in contemplative stillness, the vertical luminous elements articulating the glass facade demonstrate sophisticated understanding of how light can suggest architectural rhythm without overwhelming material presence, these strips of warm white illumination evoke traditional screen patterns and bamboo groves translated into contemporary lighting language, creating visual continuity between the modern frame and its classical contents, the reflecting pool functions as both compositional device and metaphorical element, its mirror-perfect surface doubling the architectural narrative and suggesting themes of reflection, meditation, and the relationship between substance and image that resonate deeply within Eastern philosophical traditions, compositionally the work achieves rare balance between the assertive presence of the cubic frame and the delicate intricacy of the pavilion it protects, the framing gesture simultaneously honors and showcases the traditional structure while announcing a contemporary architectural sensibility, viewers might contemplate how this lighting design creates a threshold experience, inviting passage from the quotidian exterior world through a luminous portal into a space where tradition dwells in contemporary embrace, what does it mean to frame heritage within modernity, and how does light become the mediating element between temporal states?
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The resort is located in Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on the West Tiaoxi River, back mountain surface water, a beautiful environment; Taihu Lake to the north, Moganshan to the south, has a unique natural scenery. Located at the golden intersection of Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Anji, good traffic location. It's a resort away from the noise. Sunshine, ecology, and humanity are full of emotion here. Rooted in this, is a kind of plot of hometown.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 24000 metersquare
- Tags
- Night lighting design
- Production Technology
- Inherits the culture of the Mountain Forest Academy of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the lobby, the mirror pool, the infinity pool and the lake view constitute the central axis design of the Sanshui Hall, giving full play to the symmetrical aesthetics to the extreme through the mirror pool. With the lobby as the central axis, 178 guest rooms and villas are distributed around it. The "Twilight Drum" of Xisishan Hongji integrates the drum music prevailing in the Tang Dynasty with the temple culture around the hotel, reflecting the wine music culture of the Tang Dynasty.
- Design Challenge
- The hotel is far away from the hustle and bustle. It is a quiet place for health preservation. The whole design is warm and stylish, close to nature, reflecting the elegant and free and easy life, so that you can find a little peace and quiet,Use Light to emphasize the character of interior design,express the sense of spatial hierarchy and create visual focus.
- Project Duration
- The project began in Huzhou, China in January 2022 and ended on October 26, 2022
- Operation Flow
- The hotel has banquet halls, meeting rooms, Lounge, spa , Featured restaurant, Fitness room and other multi-functional areas for customers to use. Finally meet the needs of the hotel operation and create customer comfort and sense of honor.
- Research
- The hotel is equipped with a special tea kiosks, teahouse, for the literati to taste tea used. The origin of tea culture is china. China is the hometown of tea. Drinking tea in china began in the shennong era for more than 4,700 years. Tea culture is very important in the life of the han people.
- Inspiration
- China's first hong ju brand hotel, Huzhou is china's ancient tea region and tea culture. In addition, it also integrates the Buddhist culture. The hotel faces the lake and backs the mountain, adjacent to the thousand-year-old ancient temple and the Luyu ancient road, and integrates Zen, tea classics, and Xian Yin culture into the design of the hotel. With rolling wood carvings, tea-shaped glass, and bamboo wall panels, every part of the hotel is a microcosm of local culture.
- Image Credits
- AlexXu&Partners, Suzhou Jintanglang Construction Decoration Co., Ltd.
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