The architects’ idea was to create a loop into which the landscape is enclosed in order to achieve maximum proximity and access to it. The Hotel consists of three loops each containing services relating to nature: Loop one is the water zone, loop two the flower zone and lop three the bamboo service zone.

‘…CONCEPT

ABOUT PLANNING & LANDSCAPE
More Nature, More Sustainable

New topography created intends to respond to site’s situation which is to have high hill at north side working as defence for cold winter wind and low hill at south side to guide cool summer wind into the site.

Topography also works as base to creates three landscape typologies which will create multiple landscape experience – the hilltop as grassland, the hillside as forest, and the low land as hot spring. Hotel and villas will be set at different position and zoning as groups with different landscape theme such as hot spring, forest, and lake.

As hot spring resort, water is the main subject and is used as main landscape element. From hot spring to SPA, from dam to waterfall, and from water courtyard to surrounding lake, we intend to create more chance for guest to experience hot spring in many different ways.

About water system, second hand hot spring is collected and pumped into waterfall and water wall in courtyard. Water will flow from high level to low level, from inside to outside, from water courtyard to entrance pool and down to lake and river. Finally water will be pumped back to water courtyard at the end pool of river as one circulating system.

ABOUT ARCHITECTURE & SPACE
Architecture in Nature, Nature in Architecture

‘Architecture in Nature, Nature in Architecture’ is our basic concept for the hotel. In the way, we intend to create weak and humble architecture which is harmonious and consistent with surroundings.

We take linear form for building as the way to integrate it with surroundings instead of creating one big solid object as normal business hotel on landscape. Linear form is as loop putting on topography which still will keep landscape inside and can give maximum proximity and access to the landscape. Moreover, it also works as corridor to guide guest experiencing environment and as the best circulation for flow of people as well.

Based on arrangement of landscape, the hotel space is arranged in 3 loops following topography from level +0.2m up to level +1.1m.

3 LOOPS
Loop 1: Lobby, Café, SPA, indoor / outdoor swimming pool – water zone
Surrounded by water and looks like standing on it, our intention is to integrate inner space with surrounding big water. And due to temperature difference, hopefully hot spring could create kind atmosphere that hotel will look like as in mist in winter.

Loop 2: Restaurant – flower zone
Surrounded by flower and encircling sakura courtyard, we intend to create kind atmosphere which is comfortable and refined in restaurant.

Loop 3: Guest room area – bamboo forest zone
Due to its special character and ability to survive in winter, bamboo is chosen to create forest for guest room area which is not just only to provide privacy but also create kind feeling of meditation, especially for hot spring area in guest room towards bamboo courtyard.

EXPECTATION

We hope this resort could be as an environment which people can experience by not just only vision, but hearing, smell, and touch as well. It is just simply you can hear voice of water, birds, and wind going through bamboo, and can feel hot spring and smell flower as well.’

ARCHITECT: C T Design, Taipei Taiwan. CLIENT: Ming-Tang Resort Group. LOCATION: Bazhou City, Hebei Province, China. DESCRIPTION: Hospitality. STATUS: completed. AREA: 13000 sqm. DESIGN: C T Design + Cooperation team. CT DESIGN TEAM: Yuan-Sheng Chen, Chin-Ling Tseng, Ya-Hsin Chen, Annelie Hakansson. COOPERATION TEAM: LPD Landscape Planning & Design Inc, Tokyo Japan: Yutaka Akama, Hideyuki Ishii and MICHIKO YOKOTA……and LIGHT, Tokyo Japan: Michiko Yokota. DATE: 2010. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.