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Naera Hotel and Spa

Ju Bin

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Hotel
5.71
7.00
6.29
5.86
6.21
Designer
Client
ZHIDI HOLDING
Floor area
40000 ㎡
Completion
2019
Chief Creative Design Director

The naera hotel is next to the ancient town of Xitang, It’s a typical typical Jiangnan garden, on the basis of a set of constructive design techniques, this project - after understanding the function- pointed to the aesthetics by methods of construction. The aesthetics includes oriental aesthetics, western aesthetics and contemporary aesthetics. Driving down from the city thoroughfare, if the guests directly encounter the næra’s reclusiveness, there is not enough time for them to ‘buffer’ psychologically. Therefore, a winding path with bamboo fences that are woven in a technique listed as non-heritage culture exists to lead the guests into the hotel.Its material is rendered in a geo-territorial,And Jiangnan's culture is related.It's like you walking into a small museum filling with obscure elements, its similar to a long scroll in Chinese painting,After these sequences, it spreads out in front of you. The næra have five dark ‘boxes’ with different lengths located at the waterside, existing independently but looking at and reflecting each other. They are unified with the interior and the landscape, separated from the main body of the architecture, forming a contemporary line of sight and a slight visual confrontation with the pavilion. At the same time, the path and the moving line of the "garden", including the pattern of light entering and changing, are also defined. Restaurant, musical room, tea room, study room, bar... They not only satisfy practical functions, but also take into account the aesthetic taste. The næra, which means ‘good soil’ in Chinese, might be one of the hotels that preserves the most contemporary artworks. It exhibits the original works of 35 artists. Art pieces displayed in each place have their own lives, blooming in the "good soil". They are in harmony with the hotel's atmosphere, reflect the expression and the mood of a certain group of people, and represent the unique power accumulated by the aesthetics of this era. The human care, comfort and various details are shown by all the supporting facilities. The old photos hanging in the hallway record the memory of the participants and will become a point to remember for the guests. We all accumulate and grow as time passes by.