We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Ying Zhu about their original and creative Hotel design work. Ying Zhu is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original hotel works.
Ying Zhu ("YZ") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Yutaifeng Hotel. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
YZ : The hotel is built around a central waterscape courtyard, integrating Chinese Jiangnan culture into contemporary exquisite life aesthetics, and integrating it with architecture, landscape, interior, and humanistic design. Traveling through various areas of the hotel, exploring the perceptual impressions of the garden and scale, and feeling the unique oriental charm and atmosphere, people can experience tranquility and peace in person.
YZ : We are committed to studying the application and innovation of Chinese culture in architectural space, expressing design concepts with personalized and unique visual language, and interpreting Chinese cultural elements with new visual communication. We use contemporaneity, culture, artistry, and integration and symbiosis as design language for spatial expression. We seek design inspiration from the commonality and collision between tradition and the present, and seek the spiritual appeal of design culture in the combination of historical memory fragments and current thoughts.
YZ : I will continue to participate in competitions, share them with people around the world, and spread Chinese culture.
YZ : 10 months.
YZ : The client trusted our intuition and judgment very much and directly entrusted us with the design. As the person in charge of this project, I hope that the guests who stay here can experience and feel something from the environment and atmosphere we create.
YZ : We fully own the design copyright of this project, and it will be executed by a professional construction company.
YZ : The project is located in a scenic village, hoping to spread and promote the local cultural environment and generate benefits for the rural residents.
YZ : Inspired by the oriental Zen atmosphere and traditional Chinese culture.
YZ : Countryside vacation, family travel, business meeting.
YZ : As a resort hotel brand that advocates connection with nature, I believe that how to more closely connect culture and nature is a challenge for both designers and brands. From the moment you arrive at the hotel, the presentation of artworks, the design of the rooftop garden, the natural landscapes cleverly interspersed in the public areas, and the organic crop planting areas are all responses to nature.
YZ : The name comes from the client's family heritage. They already have a restaurant in the local area and their own manor vegetable garden, specializing in organic and healthy ingredients. So after entrusting us to design this hotel, they hope to continue this name as the hotel name.
YZ : AutoCad,Adobe Photoshop ,SketchUp, 3Dmax.
YZ : Various works of art are cleverly placed in the carefully planned Jiangnan garden tour route, echoing the designer's hope to present a spatial artistic conception of changing scenery with every step and different emotions in each scene: in the hazy and winding bamboo corridors, in the quiet and elegant corners of the corridors, in the tea room, in the restaurant, at the corners of the staircases, in other aesthetic spaces of life, and even in every guest room, you can feel the presence of art.
YZ : As the chief designer, I led my team members to complete this design step by step. In addition, we also had clients who always supported our design ideas and a professional construction team. Such an outstanding project is inseparable from the concerted efforts of all the participants.
YZ : In terms of material application, natural materials such as wood and textured paint are selected to avoid the use of industrial synthetic materials, responding to the relationship with nature with sustainable materials. In terms of lighting design, the principle of seeing light instead of lamps and liberating the ceiling is advocated, and the design is carried out according to the requirements of light in different time periods to achieve sustainable energy utilization.
YZ : We specially studied the geographical environment where the project is located, fully utilized its slope advantages, and integrated the landscape outside the window into the interior vision to the maximum extent, creating a scene atmosphere where people are swimming in a painting.
YZ : As a resort hotel brand that advocates connection with nature, how to more closely connect culture and nature is a challenge for both designers and brands. From the moment you arrive at the hotel, the presentation of artworks, the design of the roof garden, the natural landscapes cleverly interspersed in the public areas, and the organic crop planting areas are all responses to nature.
YZ : Completing the project is only the first step. We believe that only by spreading it can it be valuable, so I actively participated in the competition to strive for this honor that also belongs to my clients. At the same time, the rules and fees of the competition make people feel friendly, so I decided to participate.
YZ : Every new project is tailor-made for the client, and the environment is completely different. It is a new experience for me. In this project, I feel the awe and coexistence between man and nature, and the understanding and inheritance of traditional Chinese culture.
