Qiantang Source • Dahuayuan Rural Guesthouse Design Competition - "Growth"

Qiantang River Source - Since 2013, Kaihua County in Quzhou, as the backyard of Qiantang Source National Ecological Park, has been undergoing ecological restoration along Majin Creek. The planning and construction have formed a hundred-mile Majin Creek gallery, with Yinkeng Township at the center, and rural tourism has become increasingly diverse. According to news reports, the annual tourism income exceeds 3 billion. This project is located in Rucun Village, Yinkeng Township, Kaihua, situated in the picturesque landscape of Majin Creek, at the heart of the pastoral countryside. The surrounding tourist routes are mature, and the area boasts rich tourism resources with numerous characteristic rural boutique guesthouses. We aim to position the third wave of Kaihua guesthouses as a link to educational bases, integrating into the ecological tourism industry chain. We intend to create a diverse and inclusive range of guesthouse products, including educational bases, countryside classrooms, family-friendly guesthouses, and accessible elderly care guesthouses, adapting to the operating needs of different seasons and business cycles, forming a sustainable rural guesthouse growth model. Based on rural revitalization and the direction of guesthouse development under the background of ecological tourism, we have proposed the design concept of "growth" for this project as a prototype. The project site is an old command post of a construction unit destroyed in the original farmland. We view this as a scar on the land and aim to restore and repair the land, emphasizing that rural buildings should grow naturally in the fields. The design adopts a method of lightly touching the earth and lifting it overhead to create an aerial pastoral scene of field cottages. Using wood as the primary material and steel as a secondary component of prefabricated units, we have designed an innovative structural unit that combines and transforms to form architectural functional spaces such as scenes, platforms, and houses, creating a unique and organic form of growth. The prototype of the pastoral architecture grown from the fields is replicable, similar to dandelions, imparting natural vitality to new rural guesthouse buildings, harmonizing with nature and blending into the pastoral landscape.

Project：Qiantang Source • Dahuayuan Rural Guesthouse Design Competition - "Growth"

Locatioin：Kaihua, Zhejiang, China

Building area：1850.69㎡

Design Period：03/2020—05/2020