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Amazing Hotel At China - Songjiang Hotel

     21st August' 2009,

Amazing Hotel At China - Songjiang Hotel
Project Name: Songjiang Hotel
Year: Current
Owner: Shimao
Location: Songjiang District, China
Building Type: Commercial
Greenroof Type: Semi-Extensive
Greenroof System: Custom
Roof Size: 37237 sq.ft.
Roof Slope: 1%
Access: Accessible, Open to Public
Submitted by: Greenroofs.com
Designers/Manufacturers of Record:
Architect: Atkins Architects

Atkins has won an international competition to design a resort hotel which is going to be built in a 100 meter deep quarry in the Songjiang district near to Shanghai in China.

Although from these pictures the hotel looks almost unreal, the project is expected to be completed by May, 2009.

The quarry will protect the resort from the weather and reduce the energy needs of the hotel. The complex will contain restaurants, cafes, sport facilities, and will even include underwater public areas and guestrooms.

Martin Jochman, the chief in design team, says “We drew our inspiration from the quarry setting itself, adopting the image of a green hill cascading down the natural rock face as a series of terraced landscaped hanging gardens. In the centre, we have created a transparentglass ‘waterfall’ from a central vertical circulation atrium connectingthe quarry base with the ground level. This replicates the natural waterfalls on the existing quarry face.”

The Songjiang Hotel will be a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry close to Shanghai in China, and is expected to be completed by May, 2009. The Shangaiist says, “Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. Its stunning concept designs inspired by the natural water and landscape features of the quarry captured the imagination of judges to quash competition from two other international firms.

The innovative design of the 400-bed resort hotel stands two levels higher than the rock face of the 100 metre deep quarry and includes underwater public areas and guestrooms. It will incorporate conference facilities for up to 1,000 people, a banqueting centre, restaurants, cafés and sports facilities. Sustainability is integral to the design ranging from using green roofing for the structures above the ground level to geothermal energy extraction.”

e-architect writes “An aquatic theme runs through the design both visually and functionally. Curved wings of the main body of the guestrooms enclose a naturally lit internal atrium, which uses the existing rock face with its waterfalls and green vegetation. This will be overlooked by guestroom balconies and contain restaurants and cafés at the base. Two underwater levels will house a restaurant and guestrooms facing a ten-metre deep aquarium. The lowest level of the hotel will contain a leisure complex with a swimming pool and water-based sports. An extreme sports centre for activities such as rock climbing and bungee jumping will be cantilevered over the quarry and accessed by special lifts from the water level of the hotel.”

The hotel is an integral part of the design of a new city on the outskirts of Shanghai for 500,000 people called Songjiang Garden City. Atkins’ website states, “Our brief was to interpret and modify an outline masterplan and prepare physical designs for the whole city, with particular attention to the central business district and three housing districts.

This involved the development of a conceptual masterplan using garden city philosophy and sustainable design principles. As part of the masterplan we developed a comprehensive open space hierarchy. We proposed a low-rise, sustainable garden city concept, where only the central business district buildings exceed four storeys in height. A rich mixture of formal and informal layouts within the district and local centres form the heart of a series of identifiable communities. The existing landscape is laced with waterways and is generally flat rice farming country. The layout builds on these natural qualities to create a unique identity, using linear parks and a major central park as delineating forms in the masterplan.”

Isn't this spectacular? It doesn't exist yet, these are images of a prototype. This amazing construction project belongs to Atkins. They recently won a contest with this entry.

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