- Year
- 2017
- Category
- Hospitality · Hotels and Resorts
- Status
- Built
- Location
- Yangzhou, China
Situated in close proximity to Yangzhou's scenic Slender West Lake, the design brief for a 20-room boutique hotel 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 originates with the vernacular Chinese courtyard house, which gives hierarchy to the spaces, frames views of the sky and earth, encapsulates landscape into architecture, and creates an overlap between interior and exterior.