Ice World and Five Star Hotel Changsha, Dawang Mountain Resort Building, Architect Project Images
Dawang Mountain Resort, Changsha, China Building
Chinese Sports + Hotel Development design by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Architects
2 Sep 2013
Ice World and Five Star Hotel, Dawang Mountain Resort
Location: Changsha, China
2013-
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Vienna
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Ice World and Five Star Hotel
The Deep Pit Ice and Snow World is located in the Dawang Mountain Resort Area near the city of Changsha. The project combines an Entertainment Ice World with an Indoor Ski Slope, a Water Park and supporting restaurant and shopping facilities with a total gross floor area of 120,000m².
The building volume is integrated into a beautiful landscape scenery and positioned directly on top of a historical cement mining quarry pit and lake. In the design solution towards the South and East, the existing quarry pit is revealed and the sculpted shell of the Snow and Ice World spans 170 meters from cliff to cliff over a sunken and hanging garden creating a new functional leisure space of islands, water, cliffside pathways and ramps connecting the building to this natural heritage. This unique framed open space in between architecture and landscape is also characterized through an impressive central glass cone providing controlled natural daylight down through the Ice World structure and on to the islands and water surfaces.
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A cantilevered outdoor swimming pool is part of the Water Park attractions and creates a 60m high waterfall into the quarry pit. From the inside the leisure functions of the Snow and Ice World engage the space of the quarry pit with views through large glass façades to the natural cliff faces and hanging gardens, also with overviews to the water pools and islands below. At the same time visitors walking or standing on the Cliffside Pathways can also look into the building through the transparent façade; hence an interactive visual contact with the interior of the Snow and Ice World is created establishing more excitement and maximizing the existing value of the industrial heritage.
A separate sculptural 100m high tower on the South end of the site hosts a 5 Star-Hotel and is connected to the Ice World via a Grand Garden Plaza. Arriving from the city of Changsha over Pingtang Avenue, the Hotel tower will be the most significant iconic landmark for the entire Dawang Mountain Tourism Resort Center. It offers 270 high-class single and double bed suites, 60 Executive Suites with an Executive Club Lounge and a 6-room Presidential Suite, all with impressive views to Tongxi Lake, Dawang Mountain and into the Ice & Snow World.
A spacious central Lobby around the tower core opens up into the service plinth containing a bar and restaurant on level one, flexible and multifunctional conference areas on level two and the fitness and spa and beauty facilities on level three. The façade of the Fashion Hotel Tower is a specially designed, highly economical system providing state-of-the-art sun shading, natural ventilation and a unitzed, quick construction. The element façade system offers a maximum of flexibility to the inside room layout and allows a homogeneous appearance over the exterior façade.
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Dawang Mountain Resort Changsha – Building Information
Status: Conceptual Design
Site Area: 150,000m²
Ice and Snow World Gross Floor Area: 120,000m²
5 Star Hotel Gross Floor Area: 60,000m²
Height Ice and Snow World: 30m
Height 5 Star Hotel: 100m
Depth of Pit: 60m
Team
Planning:
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Senior Project Partner: Markus Prossnigg
Executive Coordinator: Lei Feng
Project Architect: Angus Schoenberger
Design Architect: Quirin Krumbholz
Project Team: Tyler Bornstein, Laura Ghita, Crystal K.H Tang, Xinyu Wan, Paul Challis, Veronika Janovska, Sorena Dumitru, Philipp Scherl
Competition:
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner ZT GmbH
Design Principal: Wolf D. Prix
Senior Project Partner: Michael Volk
Executive Coordinator: Lei Feng
Project Architect: Angus Schoenberger
Design Architects: Alexander Ott, Quirin Krumbholz, Stephan Sobl
Project Team: Laura Ghita, Crystal K.H Tang, Donna Riedel, Xinyu Wan, Edward Chang, David Neudecker, Tyler Bornstein, Jan Markus Ludwig, Halina Krzyzanowska, Phelan Heinsohn, Miguel Sanchez Enkerlin, Rymar Mateusz, Paul Challis, Maxime Lefebvre, Simon Hiertz
Graphic Design/ Presentation: Jan Rancke, Tom Hindelang
Client: 长沙先导土地开发建设有限公司
Changsha Xiandao Land Development & Construction Co., Ltd.
Structural Engineering: B+G Ingenieure / Bollinger und Grohmann Gmbh – Prof. Klaus Bollinger
MEP / HVAC: Buro Happold Ltd, Bath, UK, Steve Macey(Competition Phase)
Chronology:
Competition 1st Prize: 2013
Start of Planning: 07/2013
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COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Vienna, Austria
Location: Dawang Mountain Resort, Changsha, China
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