Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2022
Silk Clubhouse Hospitality
by Yufeng Luo
- A' Design Award 2022 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Gold Mantis
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,089
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About Silk Clubhouse Hospitality
Silk Clubhouse is a hospitality interior located in the Xizha Scenic Area of Wuzhen, China. The design combines traditional Chinese residential styles with the character of mansions of the 1920s and 1930s, arranged as a South China courtyard cluster across 12100 square meters. Stone, wood, hard wrapped fabric and metal are the main materials. In the lobby, the original wood structure is kept and covered with delicate surface finishes. Red door panels mark corridors, entrances and turning points, while Chinese red and emerald green form the interior color scheme.
Yufeng Luo's Silk Clubhouse Hospitality represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary interior design that thoughtfully engages with traditional architectural heritage while serving the refined demands of modern hospitality programming. The space demonstrates exceptional command of spatial orchestration, employing the time-honored vocabulary of timber post-and-beam construction to create a processional experience that guides visitors along a carefully choreographed journey toward the central gathering zone. The designer appears to have drawn upon the rich legacy of hall architecture, reinterpreting its ceremonial qualities through contemporary material sensibilities and refined technical execution. Chromatic choices reveal sophisticated understanding of warm-cool relationships, with the golden timber elements and cinnabar wall panels establishing warmth against the cooler grey structural framework, creating visual temperature gradients that animate the space throughout the day. The lighting design merits particular recognition, combining concealed architectural illumination that emphasizes the rhythmic ceiling structure with traditional lantern forms that provide intimate focal points and connect the space to craft traditions. Technical accomplishment manifests in the precision of joinery visible in the overhead framework, the seamless integration of modern building systems within traditional formal vocabularies, and the careful coordination of material finishes that range from lustrous reflective flooring to matte timber surfaces. The bilateral symmetry communicates values of order, ceremony, and significance while the human-scaled furniture groupings ensure the monumental volume remains welcoming. Viewers might contemplate how the design negotiates between honoring ancestral building wisdom and meeting contemporary expectations for comfort, technology integration, and atmospheric refinement, achieving a synthesis that speaks to both memory and aspiration.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Yida Silk Guild Club is located in Xizha Scenic Area of Wuzhen. Combining the styles of traditional Chinese residence with the mansions in 1920s and 30s, it embraces the uniqueness of South China courtyard cluster. As the highest-level clubhouse in the scenic area, it will serve World Internet Conference and welcome distinguished guests from all over the world after its completion.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 12100 square meters.
- Tags
- Interior, Hospitality, Modern, Oriental Elements, Natural, Elegant, Club
- Production Technology
- The main materials in this project are stone, wood, hard wrapped fabric, metal.
- Design Challenge
- The project uses artistic design to integrate all functional spaces through different corridors and halls, creating picturesque views of Chinese aesthetics for opposite and enframed sceneries with changes of every step. With a unique oriental artistic conception, it welcomes every visitor from afar to experience the high-end club that can only be enjoyed at Wuzhen.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2019 in Wuzhen and finished in November 2020 in Wuzhen.
- Operation Flow
- Walking along the roofed corridor into the lobby of the clubhouse, guests come to the first entrance of a typical trio-garden Chinese courtyard building, where the design adopts the technique of "gold-wrapped structure", which keeps the original wood structure married with delicate surface materials to enhance the cultural vibe and luxury of the lobby space.
- Research
- The design highlights the subtle changes, with the door panels of China red standing at the corridor, entrance and turning point to define the space division, conforming to the contemporary sense of aesthetics and ceremony. Chinese red and emerald green are used together to fill the whole space, forming a novel interior color system and enriching the decorative language of the space.
- Inspiration
- In the context of this famous cultural town which vividly tells the story of contemporary China, the design deeply excavates Chinese culture and Wuzhen features, and pushes the spirit of Chinese quality mansion to a new height. At the same time, the new Chinese style, matched with Chinese red and emerald green, and dotted with western furniture at local parts, is applied to form a new Oriental aesthetics with unique characteristics.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Three Images, Silk Clubhouse, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Three Images, Silk Clubhouse, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Three Images, Silk Clubhouse, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Three Images, Silk Clubhouse, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Three Images, Silk Clubhouse, 2020. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Three Images, 2020.
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