The project is located on the tea mountain in Dengcun Township, Yichang, Hubei. As part of the tourist facilities of the Three Gorges Tea Tourism Town, it carries the functions of accommodation, public hot springs and coffee bars. Although the accommodation space occupies most of the building volume, we do not want it to look like a typical hotel or holiday villa. We hope that the building will be like a contemporary artwork, hanging in the mountains as part of the tea mountain landscape. Let the travelers who come to play not only feel the beauty, but also feel the uniqueness of this field.
The watcher of the tea field is the most specific place spirit here. The tea mountain for hundreds of years has been passed down from generation to generation under the care of the people of Dengcun Township. They have long been integrated with this stretch of mountains. The lights floating on the mountain are the first image we think of. The first floor of the building is a gray overhead pool space, and the accommodation space above is wrapped with a white metal expansion net. From the distant mountains, it looks like a floating white box. When the lights are on at night, it illuminates the mountains.
There are clouds and mist all year round, and it is rare to see sunny days. The scale of the metal expansion mesh skin has undergone multiple rounds of physical tests. It allows people to feel the mountain view from indoors without destroying the integrity of the facade, and also provides a hazy dimension. The mountain view covered by a layer of mesh adds a layer of appreciation. When people enter the room, they first seethe "pixelated" and misty mountain view. When people walk to the balcony and push and pull the window sash that folds the skin, a clearer mountain view comes into view. At this time, they can't help but breathe in the breath of the mountains and forests and embrace nature.
In order to create a suspended effect and give the first-floor hot spring area a more complete horizontal landscape, we retreated the two middle columns in the first row of the main facade of the building. From the outside, the first span of the building's depth seems to be supported by only two thin columns. Looking out from the hot spring pool on the first floor, a long scroll of landscape painting unfolds before people's eyes.
On the side facing the street, we hope to present a more active atmosphere: the entrance wrapped in red steel plates, the irregular upward red stairs and the elevator shaft wrapped in red expansion nets are combined to suggest an uneasy state of the internal space of the building.