Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat | Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Tsingpu Yangzhou Retreat
Situated in close proximity to Yangzhou?s scenic Slender West Lake, the site given to Neri&Hu to design a 20-room boutique hotel was a challenging one, dotted with small lakes and a handful of existing structures. The design brief called for the adaptive reuse of several of the old buildings by giving them new functions, while adding new buildings to accommodate the hotel?s capacity needs.
Neri&Hu?s strategy to unify these scattered elements was to overlay a grid of walls and paths onto the site to tie the entire project together, resulting in multiple courtyard enclosures. The inspiration for the design actually originates with the courtyard house typology of vernacular Chinese architecture. As with the traditional courtyard, the courtyard here gives hierarchy to the spaces, frames views of the sky and earth, encapsulates landscape into architecture, and creates an overlap between interior and exterior. Photography by © Pedro Pegenaute
Constructed entirely from reclaimed grey brick, the gridded walls? narrow interior passageway forces a long perspective, while light plays off the various brick patterns, enticing guests to venture ever deeper into the project. Within the walls, several of the courtyards are occupied by guest rooms and other shared amenities such as the reception, library, and restaurant.
Many of the building roof lines are confined within the height of the walls surrounding them, so that they are not visible from afar. H...
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