Project Site: Tianjin
Project Area: 1200 m2
Project Type: Hospitality
Design Date: 2022.04
Team Role: Design
Project Architect: Minyan Li
Team: Yan W, Yanyan D, Liqun D
Landscape Design: Neng Liu
Structural Engineer: Kailiang Cong
This project has two sites that are properties scattered in the hub of rural housing in the mountains of Jizhou near Tianjin. The mountains and nearby skiing resort have attracted urban residents to spend weekend or holidays, increasing the commercial opportunities for hotels and hostels. The clients of this project are one of the earliest families in the mountain village that have started the hostel business to host urban dwellers.
The two sites of this project are quite different in scale: one is the 200 square meters in size and the other around 1000 square meters. We placed different functions to these different site conditions. A small one-story house sits on the smaller site, where three-story structures with a sunken level sit on the bigger site, hosting the main reception areas as well as other accommodations.
The smaller houses include three guest rooms, which each has slopped interior ceilings to reflect the exterior volume of the house structure, as well as skylight through the chimney-like installations on the slopped roof. Other design features that sells the design of this small house is the living room that has a view to the mountains, with a courtyard outside. To best open the view to the living room, and to blur the threshold between the inside and the outside, we designed the structure to be column-less at the corner of the living room and used tri-fold sliding glass system to completely open the façade.
The larger structures with four stories host 8 standard guest rooms on the second level and 2 superior guest rooms on the top floor. Accommodation features of this structure include viewing deck on the top floor with accompanying bar and landscape design, the first level features a welcoming reception with coffee and cocktails, also with a fusion style restaurant that occupies half of the first level. The basement is designed to receive natural lighting with a sunken courtyard, and include features for gathering activities and film viewing, as well as art installations.
To reflect the locality of this project, the façade of both these two structures use local stones and wood. Especially on the bigger structure, whereas the entire ground level façade is cladded with local stone, also decreasing the visual impact of the big volume of this structure and playing down the existence of this new structure and disturbance to its surrounding site. The use of wood materials on the façade adds warmth and imply the residential functions of two structures.Both design plays with the idea of under the roof by using wood cladded outdoor ceilings, also connecting to the local wood structure cultures in the village of Jizhou.
This project is under interior construction and finished its architectural construction.
