ZJJZ Atelier has completed a cluster of ellipsoidal holiday cabins for a woodland hotel in Jiangxi, China, which are wrapped in wooden shingles and mirrored aluminium tiles.
Shanghai studio ZJJZ Atelier designed the buildings for the Tree Wow hotel, which specified that the pods should be inspired by natural forms to echo their scenic surroundings.
It is the second project the studio has designed for the complex, with the other being The Mushroom guesthouse that has a large conical roof.
Above: ZJJZ has designed a group of holiday cabins. Top image: they are part of a woodland hotel in China
According to the architects, the design of The Seeds was based on the functional demands of the buildings, rather than a direct attempt to copy a particular natural shape. "Instead of creating merely imitative forms, we focused on developing the spatial experience by staging views and establishing the relationship between the structures and their surrounding environment," explained ZJJZ Atelier.
They are named The Seeds after their organic shape. Photo is by Tree Wow
The resulting pod-like buildings feature rounded forms wrapped in pine shingles and punctured by circular openings. Their organic shapes led to them being named The Seeds.
The pine shingles are applied across most of the exterior surfaces, except for the undersides of the pods, which are clad in shiny aluminium tiles.
Shiny aluminium lines the underside of each pod
The aluminium tiles reflect the surroundings and ...