Lost Villa Boutique Hotel, Ningxia Building, Chinese Accommodation Architecture Photos
Lost Villa Boutique Hotel in Zhongwei, Ningxia
Commercial Accommodation Complex in China – design by Das Design Co., Ltd
28 Oct 2019
Lost Villa Boutique Hotel
Architecture& Interior Designer: Das Design
Location: Shapotou district, Zhongwei, Ningxia, China

For more than 200 years, the Yellow River has been the cradle of Dawan Village, and become the witness of its developing cultural context. It was not only a frontier city in history, but also a passage way that connects the culture and economy in Serindia area, a precious landscape that combines the Yellow River and the desert.

The Lost Villa Boutique Hotel project is located at the bank of the River. Das Design did not want an ambitious landmark, instead, they wanted to create buildings that involved into the nature and become invisible, balancing architecture and nature with humbleness and veneration.
There are 15 rooms in the hotel, each room was injected with different characteristics and has a framed view to the river or to the fruit-bearing forest. By creating different room types, DAS Lab tries to experiment on different models, scales and materials to re-evaluate the relationship between human and nature.

Inheriting from local houses, the hotel is designed with flat houses, terraces, courtyards and reed-topped eaves galleries to encourage more outdoor activities.

Das Design used a special treatment of cement mo...