Firm： Archermit

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Cultural › Observation Tower Hospitality + Sport › Hotel

STATUS： Concept

SIZE： 25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET： Undisclosed

The Longmenshan Homestay Reception Center is to build a public building that can represent the local culture.

The project is located in Pengzhou City, Chengdu, in the eastern highlands of Guihua Town, with the Panlong cultural and creative settlement on the west, the Shimen Huaping B&B settlement on the south, the Yanjiang River Valley on the east, and ore cave sites below. The purpose of the Longmenshan B&B Reception Center is to include the surrounding culture and become a cultural landmark in the local, show the local tourist attractions as a whole to the outside world, and promote the development of the Jianjiang river eco-tourism area.

Pengzhou is a famous tourism area in Sichuan. The project based on the concept of the brightest star (Alioth) of the Big Dipper, the design elements of the Big Dipper and Dragon Totem of Longmen Mountain extracted from the architectural appearance. The interior space decorated with local materials of Pengzhou clay pottery, white porcelain, and coal mine kilns as the main element of decoration. The exterior building material is local ceramic, and the space decoration materials are mainly red hand-made pottery plates, glass curtain walls and coal-fired in the local wood kiln. Which for forming a unique city style which is a stereoscopic landscape system with maximum viewing angle.

The whole project forms the architectural image of the beauty of the starry sky, the leisure of the dragon gate, and the soul of porcelain. It creates a space field with regional memory by modern means.

The project is located in Longmen Mountain which is very famous in Pengzhou with 5000 years of civilization history. We extract the element of "dragon", which is a typical representative of Chinese traditional culture. The image of the Chinese dragon contains four concepts that Chinese people attach great importance to: the universal view of the unity of man and nature, the moral view of benevolent people loving each other, the development view of the combination of yin and Yang, and the inclusive multicultural view.

The shape of the architecture extend from the combination diagram of the Big Dipper and dragon. The architecture itself is the viewing platform.The main body of the building has four floors: The first floor distributed with model display area, audio-visual room, reception, unique restaurant and hotel exhibition hall. The second floor distributed with an aerial technology exhibition hall, multi-function hall/book bar/tea room and coffee shops. The roof of the building is an open viewing platform, which can be used for sightseeing, sightseeing, shooting and other activities. It can achieve a 180-degree views of the surrounding scenery and the scenery of the snow-capped mountains. Featured restaurants and geological and cultural exhibition halls distributed on the basement level.