Gold Architecture, Building and Structure Design · 2020
Tibetan Eagle Road Trip and RV Campsite
by Arch-Hermit
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Architecture, Building and Structure Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Arch-Hermit
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 24,387
- Verification code 71E8B80361 · Verify this award
About Tibetan Eagle Road Trip and RV Campsite
Tibetan Eagle is a campsite designed for self-drive travelers beside Ranwu Lake in Tibet. The site lies between National Highway G318 to the north and the lake to the south. The main building of the integrated service center extends about 80 meters along the highway and is raised about 8 meters, so the buildings do not block each other. A glass wall faces the lake. The buildings use white cement-fiber plates, red weather-resisting steel plates, thick transparent glass, dark gray steel, local wood and local pebbles. Assembled steel structures limit the impact on the natural surroundings.
Positioned within the evolving discourse of contemporary alpine hospitality architecture, Archermit's Tibetan Eagle Road Trip and RV Campsite represents a sophisticated meditation on the relationship between human shelter and dramatic natural landscape, suggesting affinities with the phenomenological approach to architecture that emphasizes embodied experience and atmospheric quality over purely formal concerns. The project appears to draw upon regional building traditions while articulating a distinctly contemporary formal vocabulary, with the elevated structural system perhaps referencing both practical considerations of minimal terrain disturbance and the symbolic gesture of treading lightly upon sacred highland landscapes. The technical achievement evident in the coordination of multiple building systems merits particular attention, as the seamless integration of heavy structural steel framing, stone and concrete cladding, extensive curtain wall glazing, and the distinctive angular roof forms demonstrates considerable design resolution and construction expertise. The chromatic dialogue between warm interior illumination and the cool atmospheric envelope creates a powerful emotional resonance, inviting contemplation of fundamental human experiences of shelter, warmth, and refuge against the sublime immensity of natural forces. The compositional arrangement of individual pavilion units across the terrain suggests a careful response to topographic conditions while maintaining visual coherence as an architectural ensemble, evocative of traditional village settlement patterns adapted to contemporary programmatic requirements. The work invites viewers to consider how architecture might serve as a mediating threshold between human comfort and natural grandeur, creating spaces of respite that simultaneously frame and celebrate the extraordinary landscape context. What sensations of arrival and departure, of interior sanctuary and exterior adventure, might such spaces engender in their inhabitants?
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The campsite is located beside Ranwu Lake. Its north is the winding G318,and its south is the dreamland Ranwu Lake. The campsite is the best spot for self-drive travelers to stop and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Ranwu Lake. The campsite is high in the north and low in the south, with maximum altitude. The terrain slopes gently and is broad with a spectacular field of view. There are green grass and ancient trees beside the lake, green pine trees and azalea floating clouds above the mountains.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- With a total project area of about 70 mu, Phase 1 Project uses an area of 2,400 square meters
- Tags
- Self-drive, RV Campsite, Ranwu Lake, Tibet
- Production Technology
- This Project uses white and red preferred by Tibetans as the main color of the buildings. It creates a unique, natural, warm and extraordinary living space with a great combination of white cement-fiber plates, red weather-resisting steel plates, thick transparent glass, dark gray steel, local woods and local pebbles.
- Design Challenge
- The camp is 3897-3911 meters above sea level and the climate is bad. In the north side of the mountain, a flood drainage ditch runs through it, forming a waste land accumulated by debris flow gullies, which has been neglected for many years. The original terrain of the camp is 2-5 meters lower than that of National Highway 318 as a whole. The attraction and visibility of the camp for 318 transit tourists are relatively poor. It is a dilemma for all parties to build a camp here.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2009 in Ranwu Town Tibet and finished in August 2010 in Ranwu Town Tibet.
- Operation Flow
- In order to minimize the impact of this Project on the land and its neighboring environment and protect the natural environment of “Ranwu Lake Scenic Spot” better, by combining the difficulty in transporting the materials and the climate influence on the project construction, the buildings and structures of the whole project all use assembled steel structure except that the structural foundation uses reinforced concrete. Assembled steel structure has absolute advantages in environment protection, construction period, material transportation and anti-seismic effect.
- Research
- In order to maximize the field of view, the main building of the integrated service center extends about 80 meters along the horizontal line of the G318. The bottom overhead of the building is about 8 meters. The lake side of the building is a glass wall to ensure the best view of the lake. The main building is made of white irregular lines and a large quantity of transparent glass. The changes of plane and vertical shape make the gentle slope to re-connect with the ground.
- Inspiration
- By taking advantage of the original terrain height difference and combining the height adjustment of the building overhead layers, it can ensure that all buildings from the lakeside to the G318 are elevated and do not block each other. The appearance of the main building is shaped by the terrain, just like an eagle spreading its wings near the lake shore.
- Image Credits
- Arch-exist Photography
- Patents
- Arch-Hermit