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Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Qixian Liao

YISUO DESIGN BOUTIQUE HOSTEL MOUNT MOGAN

Atelier Lai

ARCHITECTS
Atelier Lai

AREA
811 m²

YEAR
2018

CATEGORY
Hostel

LOCATION
Huzhou, China

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Wei Wang

DESIGN TEAM
Jiachen Xie, Mengting Zhang, Yun Chen, Jing Zhang

PHOTOGRAPHS
Qixian Liao, Xuguo Tang, Ming Tang

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Keyuan Ma

Text description provided by architect.

MEND THE HILL AND SET UP CUBES

The site is located at the foot of a bamboo covered hill. Before the design intervention, the owner has dug out a mountain foot, leveled out a site for building houses, and made enclosure with rock retaining wall.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang

"Mending the hill"- is the first reaction to see such a incomplete hillside.

However, mending the hill is not only to mend the excavated foot of the hill, but also to build a new hill to put the human body in, so as to achieve the motivation of building.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Qixian Liao
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang

The hill mending unit adopts the most easy to operate construction unit at present - space volume.

Each volume represents a use scene, bedroom, living room, dining room, coffee, entertainment, which are all stacked together.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang

The size and proportion of the volume are directly determined by the function. Stacking produces terrace, overhead and overhanging, and each space has different ways of opening inside and outside.

WATER CONDENSES INTO RIVERS

The stacking space volume is like placing stones. The upturned parapet in modern architecture indicates the image of a "container".

Roof drainage is an important technical problem in the construction system, which is usually concealed by the structural design.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang

In the Cubes III, the downpipe is intentionally exposed as an image of the water way flowing down the river.

Silver waterways, hanging on the wall, fall layer by layer, adding a vertical momentum to the horizontally expanded space container. Form a kind of imagination that "water overflows when it is full".

Cubes III is a "commercial" place for people to live in for a short time. Its space is limited by the use scene, and many factors are taken into account in form operation and scale control.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang

Finally, we choose a kind of modern formal operation language to let a strong human creation intervene in the environment.

This is an attempt of "Atelier Lai" from the imagination of "picturesque objects" to the actual construction.

Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang


Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Atelier LAI
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Ming Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
Original site. Image © Atelier LAI
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
Original site. Image © Atelier LAI


Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang
Yisuo Design Boutique Hostel Mount Mogan
© Xuguo Tang


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Site plan
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First floor plan
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Second floor plan
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Third floor plan


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2.5F plan
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3.5F plan
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Attic floor plan
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Courtesy of Atelier LAI


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Perspective section
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Elevation
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Elevation
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Axonometric

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