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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Lost Villa Boutique Hotel in Zhongwei, China by DAS Lab

December 10th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: DAS Lab

Time in Shadow

For more than 200 years, the Yellow River has been the cradle of Dawan Village, and become the witness of its developing cultural context. It was not only a frontier city in history, but also a passage way that connects the culture and economy in Serindia area, a precious landscape that combines the Yellow River and the desert.

The project is located at the bank of the River. We do not want an ambitious landmark, instead, we want to create buildings that involves into the nature and become invisible, balancing architecture and nature with humbleness and veneration. There are 15 rooms in the hotel, each room was injected with different characteristics and has a framed view to the river or to the fruit-bearing forest. By creating different room types, DAS Lab tries to experiment on different models, scales and materials to re-evaluate the relationship between human and nature.

Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

Architecture & Interior Designer: DAS Lab
Project: Lost Villa Boutique Hotel
Location: Shapotou district, Zhongwei, Ningxia
Photography: Schran Studio / Su Shengliang
Principal Designer: Li Jingze
Design Team: Janet, Xiang Guo, Duan Jinjin, Lu Zhangyu
Owner: Ningxia Zhongwei Lost Villa Hotel Management Ltd.
Key Materials: concrete, terrazzo, wood veneer, solid board
Area: 2000 m2
Design Period: 12/2017-04/2018
Construction Period: 05/2018-03/2019

Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

Inheriting from local houses, the hotel is designed with flat houses, terraces, courtyards and reed-topped eaves galleries to encourage more outdoor activities.

We used a special treatment of cement mortar on the exterior walls to restore the texture of rammed earth wall from local buildings, so the architecture will look beautifully “old” after being exposed to winds and rains after a while.

Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

The Dawan Village, located in the east longitude 105.19, in the north latitude of 37.50, the lowest temperature in winter reaches minus 20°. Therefore, except the large-scale floor-to-ceiling windows to the landscape, the other facades have limited openings. By doing this, we managed to re-examine the relationship between windows, lights, space and human, and to further lead to exploring the scenarized expression of our consciousness on spaces.

Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

Light is a key element in the interior. Light is the shadow, when all decorations and colors are visually hidden in the heaviness of space, you will only see the light and the shadow changing with time, playing a symphony on the walls and floors and conveying the spirituality of the space, which stimulates strong emotional resonance.

We believed that a parent-child room should be both satisfying the freedom for children to play and the functionality for the whole family. Therefore we designed a special space for the children in the mezzanine where the adult may feel it too small for themselves but the children can have great fun inside.

Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

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Aerial view, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

PLAN, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

Side view, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: Image Courtesy © Schran Studio / Su Shengliang

: PLAN, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: PLAN, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: PLAN, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: Side view, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: Side view, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

: Side view, Image Courtesy © DAS Lab

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Tags: China, Zhongwei

Categories: Boutique, Hotel

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