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Rice Wine Town Reception Room

Shaoxing rice wine has a long history and its culture is deeply rooted in this soil. Dongpu town, where the project is located, has been the center of Shaoxing wine industry since ancient times. The project is associated with traditional Chinese construction methods, and responds to complex functional construction demands with a unified modular design language, responds to the site and history, infuses the vitality of the Times into the thousand-year-old ancient town, and inherits the yellow rice wine culture in a dynamic way.

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Rozna

Rozna is the only fine-dining Omani restaurant in Oman that is modeled like an ancient fort. From the exterior, it looks like a fort, and inside with a spacious central courtyard, it is reminiscent of a castle. The bright center courtyard is the main dining area that can accommodate more than 100 guests at a time. Additionally, there are 30 private rooms including 2 VIP rooms for those families and groups that prefer privacy. These rooms cater to groups large and small, in traditional settings.

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Banyan Tree Xianju Resort

The plot of this project has prominent landscape resource advantages. The design aims to make flexible use of the complex terrain of the original site, based on the architectural forms and elements of traditional mountain villages, combined with modern technology and materials, to create a wild, simple and quiet atmosphere of the park. The architectural style of the design is intended to show the collision and integration of traditional landscape and modern elements. The guest room of Villa takes the original local ecological village as its theme, trees and winding paths.

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Lijiang Taohuayuan

The project boasts world level landscape advantage. Therefore, in terms of design strategy, this project sets the street market space of Lijiang Ancient Town in the layout of the Town Center while considering the local customs and feature of Lijiang, digs the value of the plot itself to the maximum extent, and trys to build a leisure culture and tourism block hidden in the natural water and mountains.

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Casa Acqua

Casa Acqua was designed in the same way as the first Roman dwellings. Those discovered under the petrified lavas of the Vesuvius volcano that had an O-shaped floor plan and an inner courtyard; balconies around the rooms that allowed the visual integration of spaces. This typology was exploded and adapted to current times and, above all, rethought for this real moment of pandemic, for the Casa Acqua project in Brazil. The project has four modules with an internal patio. This individualized implantation, surrounded by water mirrors, elements of aesthetic interest, brings privacy and comfort.

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Kujdane

Kujdane retains the old while blending it with the new. It still has that A-frame silhouette like a traditional cabin in the woods but takes a step closer and sees that the structure has been tweaked with modern architectural elements. Wood is of course the element of choice to evoke that warm, cozy, cabin vibe and is complimented with cool-toned interior details for balance. The cabin is elevated by the sloping A-frame sides which makes it look like it is effortlessly hovering above ground level without visible stilts or pillars.

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