Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing

Architects Kongkong

CLIENTS
Lost Villa Hotel Management Company

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Quan Gan

MANUFACTURERS
Benjamin Moore, Cdn Lighting, Chai

DESIGN TEAM
Dawei Dong, Kaicheng Zhai, Fengshan Xu

INTERIOR
Kong_architects

DECORATION
Lost Villa Design Team

COLLABORATOR
Wish Studio

CONSTRUCTION
Yizhen Wan, Xiangwei Quan, Wu, Xiaoxiang Ji

CONSULTANTS
Tao Liu(Structure), Zhaojun Yan(Engineering)

PHOTOGRAPHS
Xuguo Tang, Ddw, Dandan

GROSS BUILT AREA
2021.06 - 2023.05

AREA
2200 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Jiangjin District, China

CATEGORY
Hotels

Simianshan Town, Jiangjin, Chongqing——"Because it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the valleys are criss-cross, it is named for the mountains."

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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The first mountain-dwelling resort of the Lost Villa(the Hotel Management Company) in Southwest China is located here. Kong_architects was invited to design for the project.

The owner hopes to arrange 24 guest rooms in the project, and most of the rooms with private hot spring pools.

It is also necessary to configure a big dining room, coffee bar, tea room, swimming pool, kitchen, storage room, staff dormitory, parking spaces and other supporting facilities

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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The project site is located in a U-shaped mountain valley with an opening facing west. where you can watch the sunset .

we used the foundations of the old cabins to build new buildings, and the location of the buildings remained unchanged.

The terraced fields and fruit trees planted by the farmer in the past have been preserved and become the artificial-natural landscape of our entire site.

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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According to the mountain topography and the location of the building base, we planned and designed three groups of buildings: Guanshan(observing mountains), Yishan(rely on mountains), and Yinshan(hidden in mountains).

Under these three relationships between buildings and mountains, we build a new space for man and nature.

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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The interactive relationship allows people to gain a new perspective and new experience of communication and dialogue with nature during the wandering in buildings and spaces, forming a reconstruction of the relationship between people and mountains.

In terms of construction strategy, we started from respecting the terrain and climate, reduced the excavation of earthwork on the mountain, retained most of the big rocks and trees in the site, and incorporated them into the dialogue with the architectural space.

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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The thin and large roof can protect the wall and foundation of the building in rainy, wet environments, avoiding rain erosion and splash erosion, and greatly prolonging the life of the building.

Meanwhile, we also create a lot of gray space, on the one hand, it can improves the ventilation and lighting, and on the other hand, it also provides enough space for people to move around at raining days.

Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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We also prefer to use local materials, local rough stones to build retaining walls, red sandstone blocks for building bases, railings, and steps; Recycled old wood, old stone strips, old slates, and large wine jars are also used in our landscapes


Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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Lost villa in Simianshan, Chongqing
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