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Z.H.D.I

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
6.71
6.79
7.00
7.07
6.89
Meryem Yalcin
Meryem Yalcin Assistant Professor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology
6
7
7
8
7
Mike Tristram
Mike Tristram Strategic Lead at Checkland Kindleysides
Nice boutique wellness hotel with s...
7
7
7
8
7.25
Hans J. Galutera
Hans J. Galutera Founder and CEO at HG DesignWorks LLC
Beautiful design gestures as a whol...
7
7
7
7
7
Rosie Haslem
Rosie Haslem Director at Spacelab / Labthinks
A beautiful, cool, calm space....
7
7
7
8
7.25
Sonya Simmonds
Sonya Simmonds Global Head of Design & Build at Spotify
I really enjoy the cutouts in the s...
7
6
7
7
6.75
Wang Guan
Wang Guan Founder of Matrix Design at Matrix Design
7
6
6
7
6.5
Francesca Perani
Francesca Perani Founder at Francesca Perani Enterprise
7
7
7
7
7
Dang Ming
Dang Ming Founding Partner / Chief Designer at HONG Designworks / XUST
7
6
7
7
6.75
Minyu Zhang
Minyu Zhang Interior Design Director at SUNAC ShangHai Group
6
7
6
8
6.75
Luís Pedra Silva
Luís Pedra Silva Founder and Lead Architect at Pedra Silva Arquitectos
Good symbiosis between the architec...
7
7
7
6
6.75
Mustafa Afsaroglu
Mustafa Afsaroglu Interior Designer, Co-founder at TS-DS
6
8
8
5
6.75
Jose Manuel Ferrero
Jose Manuel Ferrero Creative Director at Estudihac JM Ferrero
7
7
8
7
7.25
Jun Aizaki
Jun Aizaki Founder & Owner at Crème Jun Aizaki Architecture & Design
I like the very minimal look, becau...
7
5
7
6
6.25
George Foussias
George Foussias Director of Interior Design at Lemay
6
8
7
8
7.25
Designer
Z.H.D.I
Client
Yu
Floor area
600 ㎡
Completion
2020
Design Director
Heng Zhou
Photographer
Heng Zhou

The hotel is located in Mogan Mountain, two hours’ drive from Shanghai. As a place for holiday relaxing, it is designed to be a minimalist and calming space. The space has minimized visual distractors and no proactive expressions. People feel its existence blurring and tend to focus more on its natural surroundings. White cement structures are consistently used to form moving lines and particular functional areas. In the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nature-connected way of living gives us the chance to cure and cleanse ourselves. Exhibition spaces are embedded in the hotel’s public area. The public area is designed as an open space, which ensures smooth air circulation. Against the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, it offers people a space to connect with the nature, and have interactions in a mild yet encouraged way. Here, we promote guest to guest, and guest to nature connections through our open and human-centered exhibition spaces. The main hall originally has four independent pillars, which makes one feel boxed in there. So the design aims to open up the whole space as far as possible. Only essential structures and materials are remained, so as to balance the relation among the floor, the wall, the pillars and the ceiling. The simplification helps to form reasonable and flexible moving lines, reaching a balance between confinement and openness for each functional area. Besides, the organized blankness in certain areas also leaves more possibilities for future exhibitions. The guest rooms feature white cement walls, light wood grain and rattan, with custom made furniture dot in-between. The furniture of minimalism strikes a good balance between visual appeal and the cost. Different rooms are designed accordingly with different themes concerning the shapes and sight lines. They are the spring room, the tea room and the family room, etc. The case also delivers the importance of problem-solving. Particularly, the building illustrates how to strengthen relations among the building, environment and natural light by clarifying relations among the surface, the wall, the pillars and the ceiling while meeting certain requires and reaching cost control. It is also the built proof that a simple, comfortable and nature-connected living space can be created through design with commercial objectives being achieved.