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Platinum Architecture · 2020

Hill Wind Hotel and Resort

by Huafang Wang

Platinum A' Design Award 2020 in Architecture
CLIENT: Storm Architectural Design
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About Hill Wind Hotel and Resort

Hill Wind is a resort hotel located in Anji County, Huzhou. The external form follows modern architectural thinking, with geometric cloud shapes drawn from the origami concept and extended into irregular volumes. A white membrane material is joined to these forms through structural changes. Inside, a narrow entrance passage creates a deep sense of space, and a continuously flowing ceiling is shaped and stitched by craftsmen. Bamboo and wood from the Anji area are used as building materials. The project covers 3500 square meters and echoes the surrounding natural landscape.

About the Platinum A' Design Award

Hill Wind Hotel and Resort is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Hill Wind Hotel and Resort exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Hill Wind Hotel and Resort is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.

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Unique Properties: This case is a resort hotel design project, the outline of the external form adopts the thinking mode of modern architecture. The designer extracts the image of geometric clouds from the origami concept and extends the irregular shapes. With the same type of white film as the internationally renowned Burj Al Arab, the two elements are integrated through structural changes, which bring out the best in each other.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 3500 square meters. If the appearance of the building is striking to the visitors at first glance, people will be surprised to find that the building is "flowing" after entering the Hill Wind.
Tags: Architecture, Hotel, Resort, Modern, Natural, Elegant, Cultural, Origami concept, Futuristic
Production Technology: The fluctuate continuously ceiling is formed and stitched by craftsmen. In the selection of materials, the bamboo and wood abundant in Anji provide us with advantaged construction materials.
Design Challenge: The natural raw materials are warm and soft, without any decoration, and they harmoniously dissolve into the infinite greenness. It not only weakens the huge scale of the architectural framework and adds exquisite texture to the rigid concrete, but also echoes the surrounding natural landscape, making the building and nature more closely through this way. In the designer's opinion, a good life or a good design work must be related to nature, which is also the core of the design of this case.
Research: Hill Wind is located in the beautiful mountains and lake light of Anji County, Huzhou City. This ancient Longwang Village with over 200 years of ancient paper-making skills is known as the "Three Clean Places" of clean air, clean water and clean soil. It is a secluded quiet dwelling full of artistic flavor and embracing natural scenery.
Inspiration: According to the regional characteristics, the designer combines the local culture and historical context in the process of conception. Under the dominant atmosphere of modernism, the designer uses the language of design to create dialogue with space, and then interprets the visual, tactile and spiritual resonance, reproducing the Anji area humanistic landscape pattern of "The cicada noise highlights the silence of the forest, and birdsong sets off the depth of the mountain".
Project Duration: The project started in March 2017 in Huzhou and finished in April 2019 in Huzhou.
Operation Flow: Seen from the entrance, the narrow and long passage mysteriously carries a deep sense of space aesthetics. Combining the shape of the nest with the uneven stone, it creates a rough and steady visual effect. The quiet interior and the noisy exterior form a pulling feeling in space, which attracts the past customers.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Huafang Wang, 2019.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance 2, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Appearance 3, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Public Area, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Song Ye and Xinghao Liu, Public Area 2, 2019.