TWO STRIPS

Hotel & Visitor Center design Leveraging Diverse Modalities of Publicity and Privacy.

Multi-Functional

Hotel

Visitor Center

When

Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

Who

Instructed by Zhijiang Yang

Project Overview

The Zhongshan Scenic Area stands out from other national tourist attractions due to its unique location in the downtown area. The site is positioned east of the park, with only a road separating it from the park, and both natural and urban factors influence the site.

The project includes a hotel and a tourist center, with tourists accessing the park via a bridge that spans the road. While both the hotel and tourist center are public spaces, it would be inappropriate to completely merge them, considering the privacy and management needs of the hotel. The complex relationship between these two functions makes it an ideal foundation for my design.

By focusing on three key interactions—vision, hearing, and accessibility—the project organized the various spaces in response to both the external environment and the internal functional requirements of the project.

Project Site

Zhongshan Scenic Area is special in terms of its location, it is in downtown of Nanjing, but also next to natural scenery, attracting millions of tourists yearly, from both Nanjing and other cities.

Project Site is just next to the scenic area, right between natural and urban environments.

Context Responding

The project have a relatively simple shape, while each part of the project dealing with different context at the sane time.

Mass Analysis

Program -- Hotel & Visitor Center

The project includes a hotel and a tourist center, with tourists accessing the park via a bridge that spans the road. While both the hotel and tourist center are considered as public, they are different type of public spaces, not appropriate to mix them together.

Interweaving

Hotel and Visitor Center are sperated in most aspects, while they interweaved together on the second floor plan, tourist center go through under the hotel in the middle part of the project, creating visual and hearing connection among different public space.

2nd Floor & Site Plan

Ground & 3,4th Floor Plan

Overlay

Programs are layered and overlayed together within a single mass, visual connections and accessibility are carefully controlled among these spaces to have privacy and publicity balanced.

Hotel Customers' View from Courtyard

Hotel Customers' View from Buffet

Tourists' View from Bridge

Tourists' View from Courtyard

Urban & Nature

The project located on the edge between urban and natural environment, different facing direction enjoys completely different view. Main part of the hotel floating above the tourist center and logistics part, facing the mountain and block the highway away from the courtyard.

Hotel Unit

4 Types of Unit are designed. Since one side of hotel facing the highway, Unit B and Unit C are designed to have both side opened, so that all rooms can enjoy the view of scenery.