FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block entrance. Image Courtesy of TAOA

FUNGZEN FOREST HEALING RESORT

TAOA

ARCHITECTS
TAOA

AREA
1255 m²

LEAD ARCHITECT
Lei Tao

LOCATION
Hangzhou, China

CATEGORY
Hotels

DESIGN TEAM
Lei Tao, Zhen Chen, Ye Tao, Zhenqiang Dun, Linna Yuan, Yunyi Dai, Tong Shi, Lang Sun

INTERNS
Xiaozhuo Zhu, Weiming Wan, Licheng Sun

CLIENT
浙江风马牛长乐文化旅游有限公司

COLLABORATORS CONTRACTOR
中国建筑技术集团有限公司

YEAR
2021

It is a leisure and holiday service space in the mountain forest in the suburb of Hangzhou, China. The design starts from the concrete environment.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The first thing we consider is what kind of space device can talk with this mountain forest, and can better conform to the terrain and integrate into nature. The special conditions of the site determine the particularity of the building.

The building site is presented as two rectangles with connected corners, and the width across the valley stream is less than three meters.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block reading area. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The butterfly shape is the result of connecting rectangular sites across two hillsides by service space. At the same time, it conforms to the contour lines of, and the internal functions of the building are divided by different ground elevations.

Butterfly shape can also be understood as two V-shaped cuts cut into the building, facing two distant places of the valley respectively, introducing the natural landscape into the interior and embracing nature.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block resstaurant. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block reading area. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The other two sides of the building are embedded in the mountain, and the channel of stream and mountain road is still reserved under the overhead butterfly-shaped building.

To keep some trees indoors, the vertical structure is designed as a "column courtyard", which is a pillar in the structural meaning, and a "miniature courtyard" with one tree preserved in the spatial meaning.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The roof is a stepped slope, which can be used as a forest theater for small-scale performances. Interior space is unified by this sloping roof, and it is full of rhythm as the ground elevation changes.

By building such a space, we hope that every viewer will be in the most relaxed state, and can see a world with its own special rhythm, which is different from usual.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block tea room. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
tea room. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The 38-68㎡ aluminum shell buildings are placed deep in the forest and penetrates into nature.

The definition of architecture returns to the basic concept of being a shelter, which exists as a basic space against wind and rain to meet people's basic needs.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block outdoor platform. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block outdoor platform. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The weather-resistant aluminum shell can withstand the erosion of harsh climate, which is in contrast to the surrounding environment.

The size of space is defined by the human body, and the walls and roofs of buildings are within reach.

This kind of space experience close to a camping tent always makes people feel that nature is close at hand, only separated by the thickness of an outer wall.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom interior. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom activity area. Image Courtesy of TAOA

All-in-one wooden material provides a warm and comfortable building lining and a pleasant living atmosphere, which is in contrast with the wild interest of external nature.

This contrast makes people sensitive to nature and can feel the beauty of nature, either tender and delicate, or harsh and cold.

There is one native tree in each building and the space occupied becomes the courtyard, which is always accompanied by indoor life through glass, which is the reverse penetration of nature into the building, and the courtyard also provides a private landscape for the toilet.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
overall view. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block night view. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The interior is designed to have different elevations. Not defined by partition walls, different living contents are separated by heights, thus maintaining relative independence and creating rich changes in space, which are also reflected in the external forms of buildings to adapt to the different slopes of mountains.

Each interior space has a corresponding floor-to-ceiling glass facade.

The top of the pyramid is provided with skylights that can look at the sky and crown, combine into different directions to enjoy the scenery.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom facade. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
construction process. Image Courtesy of TAOA

The external landscape is projected into the whole space, becomes the main element of architecture, and forms the special tension of space.

All of which is to gain more perception of nature when living indoors.

FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
construction process. Image Courtesy of TAOA


FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom facade. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
public block night view. Image Courtesy of TAOA
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
guestroom facade. Image Courtesy of TAOA


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Guestroom 1 Elevation
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 2 Elevation
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 3 Elevation
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Public Block Elevation


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Analysis Diagram
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Analysis Diagram


FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 1 Model
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 2 Model
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 3 Model
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Public Block Model


FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 1 Plan
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 2 Plan
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Guestroom 3 Plan
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Public Block Plan
FUNGZEN Forest Healing Resort
Site Plan