M50 Art Hotel

Qionglai, China
Design Concept
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Looking from street
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Bird view
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Main entrance
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Masterplan
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Structure diagram
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First floor plan
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Standard floor plan
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Section
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Physical model
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Physical model
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Site photos
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Architects
MUDA-Architects
Year
2019
Client
Qionglai Tourism Investment
Team
Lu Yun, Xu Jiandan, Liu Jingyi, Sun Qiming, Lu Heyu, He Yixiu, Liu Xiaoqiao, Mei Yixuan, Rong Dian, Zhou Shangyun

M50 Art Hotel Project is located in Pingle, Sichuan. Pingle Ancient Town is planned to be a music theme town. Therefore, the starting point of this project is around “Music”. In this project, MUDA- Architects strives to explore and activate local culture genes, and to create a landmark building that can inherit the historical context and also is forward-looking. It is an architecture which is able to talk to the future.
MUDA-Architects hopes to further explore the relationship between architecture and music in the design: tapping into the local history and culture, we learnt that the love story between Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru happened in Qionglai. Taking the song "Feng Qiu Huang" as the starting point, guqin was found, and the strings was extracted. The project abstracts the action of "touching the strings" into architectural form. When the strings solidify at the climax, the final form of the building is obtained, which also responds to the theme “Architecture is frozen music”.
The building generates the entire volume through several rhythmic curves, and the flowing surface reflects the rhythm of the music. The building has a total length of 80 meters, an average width of 20 meters and the highest point of 18 meters. The external curtain wall design adopts the horizontally subdivided aluminum plates, and the change of curvature caused by the surface shape is eliminated by the gap between the each unit, ensuring the precise control of the curtain wall. In addition, the horizontally subdivided aluminum plates look like bamboo texture, which gives a positive response to the characteristics of bamboo culture in Sichuan.

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