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Naera Hotel and Spa

Ju Bin

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
5.71
7.00
6.29
5.86
6.21
Mustafa Afsaroglu
Mustafa Afsaroglu Interior Designer, Co-founder at TS-DS
The striking use of water, light an...
5
5
7
6
5.75
Sonya Simmonds
Sonya Simmonds Global Head of Design & Build at Spotify
All of the spaces feel like high qu...
5
7
5
7
6
Meryem Yalcin
Meryem Yalcin Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology
I personaly found the project well...
6
8
7
8
7.25
Mike Tristram
Mike Tristram Strategic Lead at Checkland Kindleysides
Premium design and details, however...
4
6
4
5
4.75
Hans J. Galutera
Hans J. Galutera Founder and CEO at HG DesignWorks LLC
Beautifully photographed with archi...
8
8
7
5
7
Jun Aizaki
Jun Aizaki Founder & Owner at Crème Jun Aizaki Architecture & Design
The garden and lake evoke a mystic...
6
8
7
5
6.5
Rosie Haslem
Rosie Haslem Director at Spacelab / Labthinks
High quality detail and finishes. A...
5
8
6
5
6
George Foussias
George Foussias Director of Interior Design at Lemay
such a serene environment; well it,...
5
6
6
5
5.5
Dang Ming
Dang Ming Founding Partner / Chief Designer at HONG Designworks / XUST
6
8
7
5
6.5
Francesca Perani
Francesca Perani Founder at Francesca Perani Enterprise
I like how the shapes are severe at...
6
8
7
6
6.75
Luís Pedra Silva
Luís Pedra Silva Founder and Lead Architect at Pedra Silva Arquitectos
6
7
6
5
6
Wang Guan
Wang Guan Founder of Matrix Design at Matrix Design
5
7
7
7
6.5
Jose Manuel Ferrero
Jose Manuel Ferrero Creative Director at Estudihac JM Ferrero
5
6
5
6
5.5
Minyu Zhang
Minyu Zhang Interior Design Director at SUNAC ShangHai Group
8
6
7
7
7
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.