ZEPHYRUS ART Resort: A Suture for an Industrial Soul

  • Company/Studio
    GWP Architects
  • Lead Designer(s)
    John Zhang (PIC), Huang Xiangjun (Lead)
  • Design Team
    Qiu Lu, Lai Jiegui, Ruan Jieying, Chen Yuwei, Li Shuming, Xu Jitang, Zhang Bailin, Zhong Zhengzhou, He Guoshan, Xiao Bingxuan
  • Client
    Clients: Chen Zhihong
  • Credits
    Photo by: DONG Image
  • Prize
    Winner in Landscape Design/Historical landscapes
  • Project Website

Located in a fading industrial coal city, the project acts as a "spatial suture," stitching a fragmented past with an ecological future. The design was dictated by two 500-year-old National Scholar Trees discovered on-site. By fragmenting the massing into human-scaled courtyards, these ancient trees become temporal anchors in a symbiotic dialogue with new geometric lines. Inspired by Ming poetry, curved Titanium Zinc roofs translate the "solitary boat" motif into a modern tectonic language, while local blue bricks and fair-faced concrete create a serene, meditative atmosphere.

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