2025 | Professional

French Design Awards Platinum Winner

Xanadu Chongchongshan

Entrant Company

Wildurban Architects

Category

Architectural Design - Hotels & Resorts

Client's Name

Xanadu

Country / Region

China

The project is situated in Banan, just 60 kilometers from downtown Chongqing, where endless mountain ranges meet dense forests. Urban life and nature here exist not as distant opposites but as deeply intertwined realities.
Perched atop a steep mountain peak with dramatic elevation changes, the site features a gentle path winding through towering fir forests that deliberately disorient spatial perception. The main building's concave spherical façade mirrors the circular plaza before it, transforming the architecture into a theatrical backdrop that frames three-dimensional activity spaces.
This central structure mediates between interior and exterior realms. Visitors progress from a dimly lit cave entrance into a lofty dining hall enveloped by trees, then ascend via external suspended staircases to a treetop-level rooftop offering mountain panoramas. An alternative route through a spiral tower and skybridge creates dual circulation paths that weave through both built and natural environments, crafting layered spatial experiences.
Four white structures trace the mountain's contours while six treehouses nestle among pines, collectively forming a primal constellation around the central plaza. Primitive geometric volumes with strategically placed apertures become environmental canvases, their blank walls capturing dancing tree shadows.
Architecture here transcends mere construction. Through deliberate spatial orchestration that modulates emotional tension and release, it achieves poetic material transcendence. Nature remains paramount, with light and air permeating every designed space.
Architecture is not merely simple construction. By organizing spatial forms and orders, and controlling the tension and relaxation of emotions, it transcends the physical substance itself and creates poetry. We never ignore nature, allowing light and air to penetrate through the building. We face the desolation of the original nature directly, break through the boundaries with imagination, and eulogize the wild beauty of life and nature.

Credits

Co-founder and Principal Architect
Jacky Chan
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