TARRAWARRA ONSEN HOUSE
LOCATION: Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd, Tarrawarra VIC 3775, Australia Program: Luxury hotel, 8 individual rooms with private bath/Spa Facilities including Spa with different temperatures and massage room
Conceptual Framwork
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Growing up in asian, going to a Onsen House is a ritual that I do with my mum and friends every week. It is the place for cleansing, relaxing and healing. The Onsen house is usually small and intimate that my friends and I always share our secrets while bathing. Sometimes we don’t talk at all, just enjoy the quietness. When I first assigned to the project of designing a Spa Hotel in TarraWarra, I seek inspirations from Asian bathing houses. An intimate spa house only open to limited gests each day to help them rest the body and spirit. During the site visit, the stunning scene where the silhouette of mountains added up on top of each other caught my attention. This made the site very ambiguous where the boundaries are blurred. The idea of blurring boundaries has been incorporated in my design to echo the characteristic of site as well as providing a lyrical and subtle experience for the guests.
TARRA WARRA MUSEUM GUEST PARKING
GOLF CARTS ROUTE
Material imagination
“Images arising from matter project deeper and more profound experiences, memories, associations, and emotions than images evoked by form”- Gaston Bachelard. Architecture has decisively moved towards the world and expression of materials, as in works of Peter Zumthor, RCR Arquitectes, and Kengo Kuma. The works produced by those architects often dedicated to a single material, with refinement and elegance. The decision of inviting timber as the main material for this building has been made at the start of the designing stage. The material create such warm and intimate atmosphere. Many people respond more positively to the idea of timber building to one of steel or concrete. To some degree, this response may stern from the colour, grain figure, and warmer feel of wood. In part, it may also come from the pleasant association that people have with the sturdy, satisfying houses our ancestors enacted from hand hewn timbers only a few generations ago. In order to make a warm, intimate spa hotel, extensive amount of timber will be used with different methods throughout the building.
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Repetition is the basic means of architecture.My frist approch is to blur the boundries by inserting wood battens, as the project devlops, i created three types of repetition of timber batten,each provide different functions and atmospheres. Those elements have been inserted in different parts of the building by itself, or combined with another type to create various experiences and atomspheres.
Type A Dimension:100mmx100mm Spacing:1500mm Transparency degree 95% The generous spacing between each wood batten allows people to walk in between. This type of repetition has been used at the entrance of the building, indicating the door and blurring the boundary between indoor and outdoor.
Type B Dimension:20mmx20mm Spacing:20mm Transparency degree 30% This type of repetition has been used to divide up areas in the hotel. The function is similar to the conventional wall but it also blur the boundary between areas to create an ambiguous space. It also works as a displaying screen where activities behind it will be captured by the viewer.
Type C Dimension:50mmx50mm Spacing:30mm Transparency degree 50% This type of repetition has been used for framing views as well as controlling light. Transparency degree 0% The combination of two layers of Type C creates a sliding screen for Controlling Privicay and light. The occupants decide the degree of privicay and light needed in the area.
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Type A Type C is used to Blur the boundary between indoor and outdoor, create a semi open corridor
Two layers of Type C is used here to form a sliding screen. The occupants control the light and privicy by moving the screen.
SECTION AA Occupants walk to the other spa room in water. Type B is used here to blur the boudary as well as connecting between the outdoor and indoor area
Blurring the boundary between sky and spa.
More than 5 layers of surfaces with different degree of transparency have been placed in the same axis. Those surfaces divide and connect space at the same time. The boundry between each space is ambiguous. As the occupants walk closer to the outdoor, the view gets more clear. Atomsphere and occupants’mood changes as they walk through the space.
Blurring the boundary between sky and spa.
Type C is used here for view framing. This also divided up the main pool into four sections, where occupants choose their own jorney and circulation
A narrow corridor created by combination of Type3 and blowen glass wall. It is one of the darkest area in the building. Spring Water drops from the ceilling on the occupants. The occupants focous listening to the dripping water and this is the begining of the Spa Journey.
Melbourne Univeristy Architecture Design Studio 24/Topologies of Desire/Josette Shutian Zhou/531491/
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ENTRY CHANGING/SHOWER PANTRY MACHINE ROOM RAIN DROP WINE SPA MASSAGE HOT SPA 420 0 COLD SPA 14 OUTDOOR SPA
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HOTEL ENTRY LIBIARY CINEMA STAFF ROOM OFFICE KITCHEN GYM
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SECTION BB TYPE C REPETITION FOR LIGHT CTRONTROL
TYPE C REPETITION AS CORRIDOR
TYPE B REPETITION AS SPACE DIVIDER TYPE A REPETITION FOR BLURRING BOUNDRY
Zinc cladding roof Heated vals stone Clix Classic Oak podium h300 White Varnished
Ivory Marble Flooring
Pebble water pond