Xi’an, China
Guang Zhou Hui Yi Ming Cheng architects designed a mountain resort in Xi’an, in Shaanxi Province, China, using controversial materials whereas light and shadow create a unique experience for the visitor.
The White Deer Plain mountain resort project was short-listed for a 2021 International Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The resort is located in the middle of the white deer plain in Xi ‘an, China, undertaken the best viewing platform and natural scenery, defined as a mountain land resort hotel.
It is an overall remold plan, including architecture, planning, environmental landscape, also add some individual buildings and public facilities.
The main building is demolished and only concrete frame structure is retained.
It takes advantage of the characteristics of the terrain and the falling height between the top layer of the main body and the ground to build a highly visual impact of the tin box dimension.
To form a strong contrast with the architecture framework, highlight the material application and dimensions of the building, changes of light and shadow, and also the rhythm of space level, as well as the scale change of the relationship between humans and architecture.
The guest room area creates two open shared inner courtyards in the original enclosed space.
A corridor is in the courtyard runs across it, form a shared space in an independent guest room area; some rooms have a private courtyard and unique vertical lighting.
The exterior of the main part of the guest room is added with a long corridor that appears to be a bamboo building structure, create a vertical spatial scale, experience the wonderful scale change of time through the light and shadow of bamboo.
Light and shadow are combined with atomizers creating very zen philosophical humanistic feelings.
Most of the materials used for the outdoor environment and indoor space are the materials removed from the original building.
The overall design concept advocates environmental protection, saves the natural ecology, controls the cost to the greatest extent.
Return to the original spirit and context of the architectural concept.
Project: White Deer Plain, Mountain Land Resort Hotel
Architects: Guangzhou Huiyimingcheng Architectural Design Co., Ltd.
Client: Siji Yuanmai
Contractor: Tianhe
Photographers: WuLicheng / TanXiao
