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Aoxin Holiday Hotel

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
7.23
6.38
7.08
5.62
6.58
darren nolan
darren nolan Associate at Peter Marino Architect
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7
7
6
6.75
Jelle Sapulete
Jelle Sapulete Design Director at Adidas
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6
5
5
5.5
Florian Seidl
Florian Seidl Design Manager at Lavazza
At first all the gold is quite over...
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6
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4
6
Royce Epstein
Royce Epstein Design Director at Mohawk Group
Elegant project. Really love the co...
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6
7
4
6
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Tetsuya Matsumoto Head Architect at KTX archiLAB
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5
8
5
6.5
alberto caiola
alberto caiola Design Director at Alberto Caiola Studio
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6
5
5
5.5
Shannon Pringle
Shannon Pringle Interior Designer at Bernardon
10
9
9
9
9.25
Justin Bridgland
Justin Bridgland Founding Partner at More Design Office
Some nice spaces. The gold caves ar...
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5
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5
6
Julie Payette
Julie Payette Cofounder and Partner at v2com newswire
The gold accent of the mosaic fits...
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7
8
7
7.5
Jaycee Chui
Jaycee Chui Founding partner at More design office
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7
9
7
7.75
Matteo Renna
Matteo Renna Founder at matteorenna | studio
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6
7
5
6.25
Simona Franci
Simona Franci Principal and Design Director at Fortebis
6
6
5
5
5.5
P.C.Ee
P.C.Ee Editor & Creative Director at industry+
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7
8
6
7
Designer
Client
3000 Sojourn Hotel
Floor area
6100 ㎡
Completion
2019
Chief design

Aoxin Holiday Hotel is located in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, a city well known for its wine and regarding wine culture as its root. The hotel is inspired by the wine hiding cave (namely a cave used to store liquor) in Luzhou, a place that evokes a strong desire to explore. The design of the hotel is an extension and evolution of local culture. As the mystery of natural cave arouses curiosity, the lobby is a reconstruction of natural cave amongst which places a series of unconnected hollow stones. The unknown and the unpredictable inside the stones is released by excavating internal stone, forming a private and semi-invisible surroundings, which creates a continuous experience of opening and enclosing through the interior of the stone and the gap between the stone. When the customers enter the hotel, they pass through the interior of the stone and the gap between the stone to form a continuous experience of opening and enclosing caused by alternation of light and space. The hotel's atmosphere is not spring of brightness, but another kind of hazy, mystery and massive beauty. In some light environment full of metaphorical meaning, people can perceive tranquility and peace themselves. The construction of the cave is one of the difficulties in hotel construction due to its complicated process and highly strict requirements on the accuracy of each procedure. First the designer constructed the virtual model via rhino, then split the curved surface after CAD’s calculating three-dimensional data, and then cut it into several modules by the manufacturer using GRG material, after that transported it to the scene for splicing, finally built steel frame to suspend and fix the module fragments. All the procedures are intertwined with no slackness at all . Another difficulty is the inner wall of the cave in the shape of multi-dimensional curved surface. In the process of mosaic paving, mosaic regular stitching is squeezed caused by the shrinkage of the curved surface area. The designer reversed deformation seam in advance, increased the number of segments horizontally and set the starting point for each segment separately, forming a dynamic order in which the law and freedom coexist.