Hangzhou, Zhejiang By PROL Lighting Consultant
“MUH SHOOU” originally means the last fruit left by farmers on the tree with the special intention of sharing it with animals in nature so as to pray for the harvest of the coming year. That’s just where the name of MUH SHOOU XIXI comes.
MUH SHOOU XIXI lies on the end of Longshezui entrance at the southwest corner of XIXI Wetland. The site of the project is located at the north of gently rolling hills and the south of flatland with plentiful lakes. It boasts typical wetland ecology with water path, land route as well as native vegetation surrounding. The architect attempts to present the natural beauty of XIXI Wetland – “coldness, quietness, uniqueness, wildness and seclusion” – to visitors through the design and evoke the resonance between human and the primitive nature through the architecture.
The hotel is renovated from five old buildings originally on this site. The challenge to architects is how to meet the needs of modern hotels in an ecologically optimal way. After making a large number of on-site investigations, architects completed the structural transformation and integrated system layout with extremely minimal intervention, so that the building could be connected with surrounding forest and water system smoothly.
