By WEGO Lighting Design
Hezi SPA Hall is located in Yixing, a famous city with beautiful scenery. The whole building is composed of five floors , covering an area of 3083 square meters. The overall design of the project is delivered by S5 Design, and its inspiration comes from the “Travel Map of Mountains and Rivers”, which is known as the “First Song Painting”. Fan Riqiao, the designer, combines the characteristics of Yixing’s local bamboo forests with many mountains and rivers. Through repeated abstraction, the five-storey building is transformed into a “mountain”, with a “canyon” in the middle, a “bamboo forest” inside and a “pavilion” in water, creating a brand new and different aesthetic enjoyment. The “Traveling Map of Rivers and Mountains” seems to be carved in the base frame, making culture the underlying logic of the Hezi SPA brand.
The designer also uses the method of switching the mountain and forest scenes to obtain the experience of continuous reversal in and out of the space. Through the simultaneous regeneration of real and virtual scenes and the mutual mapping of situation and imagination, poetry and painting, nature, and contemporary aesthetics are interwoven in a limited space, but it also allows people to obtain a new sense of cultural belonging while triggering unlimited thinking. In the context of changing eras, what exactly do we “see”?
Although there are no peaches and plums competing for beauty in the stone path, you can watch the pleated stone on the beach.
