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3 months ago𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗶 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 | 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗔𝗗𝗘 + 𝗤𝗔 The world’s first quarry hotel has been opened in China, designed by Martin Jochman and his studio JADE + QA. Situated in an 88-meter-deep, water-filled, disused quarry, the 337-guestroom Intercontinental Shanghai Wonderland Hotel contains only two levels above ground, with 16 more levels plunging into the quarry below. The winner of an international design competition in 2006, Jochman developed the scheme in collaboration with ATKINS, in a process which has lasted over a decade. The resulting “groundscraper” features such amenities as an underwater restaurant and aquarium, all set within a form which seeks to minimize its impact on the local environment. At the top of the quarry, a grass roof helps the scheme to adopt a low profile, with only two levels emerging above the clifftop. Below, 16 levels cascade down the side of the quarry in a spectacular “glass waterfall” housing a vertical circulation core and observation lifts, flanked by two guest wings. At the base, the two lowest levels are sunk underwater, containing guestrooms, restaurants, and an aquarium, while a conference/ballroom center and swimming pools comprise the bottom surface level. . Project: Shimao Wonderland Intercontinental Architect: Martin Jochman Dip Arch RIBA - STUDIO JADE+QA (Concept with ATKINS) Operator: InterContinental Hotels Group Developers: Shimao Group Time scale: 2006 -2018 Opened: 15th November 2018 Footage courtesy: Jade+QA, Blakstation & Kevin, @intercontinental, Douyin:天使航拍, @khanjipeerwala @ihghotels . 🎥: @archfeed_ 📍#Songjiang,#Shanghai, #China🇨🇳 . . . Comment your thoughts below😍 Tag your friends! . ═━═━═━═━═━═━═━═━ 🖤Follow @archfeed_ for more 🖤 ═━═━═━═━═━═━═━═━ . Like❤️| Comment💭| Share⚡ 📲 DM for credit or removal. . . . . . #TianmaPitHotel #InterContinental #ihghotels #InterContinentalShanghaiWonderland #ChinaArchitecture #ChinaArchitects #ChinaBuildings #Architecture #Design #Interior #InteriorDesign #Concept #QuarryHotel #InterContinentalHotel #InterContinentalLife #QuarryBuildings #QuarryLife #Quarry #Shimao #EcoFriendly #EcoFriendlyHotel

3 months ago𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 | by 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗡𝗮𝗸𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮 & 𝗡𝗔𝗣 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 . Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP: “This house is sited among tall buildings in downtown Hiroshima, overlooking a street with many passing cars and trams. To obtain privacy and tranquility in these surroundings, we placed a garden and optical glass façade on the street side of the house. The garden is visible from all rooms, and the serene soundless scenery of the passing cars and trams imparts richness to life in the house. Sunlight from the east, refracting through the glass, creates beautiful light patterns. Rain striking the water-basin skylight manifests water patterns on the entrance floor. Filtered light through the garden trees flickers on the living room floor, and a super lightweight curtain of sputter-coated metal dances in the wind. Although located downtown in a city, the house enables residents to enjoy the changing light and city moods, as the day passes, and live in awareness of the changing seasons. 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗙𝗮ç𝗮𝗱𝗲 A façade of some 6,000 pure-glass blocks (50mm x 235mm x 50mm) was employed. The pure-glass blocks, with their large mass-per-unit area, effectively shut out sound and enable the creation of an open, clearly articulated garden that admits the city scenery. To realize such a façade, glass casting was employed to produce glass of extremely high transparency from borosilicate, the raw material for optical glass...” . Architects: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP - (@hiroshi_nakamura_naparchitects) Area: 385 m² Year: 2012 Structure Design: Yasushi Moribe Footage courtesy: @hiroshi_nakamura_naparchitects, Koji Fujii @kojifujii_photography / Nacasa & Partners Inc. . 🎥: @archfeed_ 📍#Hiroshima, JAPAN🇯🇵 . . . Comment your thoughts below😍 Tag your friends! . ═━═━═━═━═━═━═━═━ 🖤Follow @archfeed_ for more 🖤 ═━═━═━═━═━═━═━═━ . Like❤️| Comment💭| Share⚡ 📲 DM for credit or removal. . . . . . #Japanarchitecture #Japanarchitects #Japanesearchitecture #HiroshiNakamura #OpticalGlassHouse #BorosilicateGlass #Borosilicate #OpticalGlass #GlassFacade #GlassFacades #GlassBlock #GlassBlocks #HiroshimaJapan #Facade #Façade #Tranquility