2019年秋天，我们受业主委托，对湖州的一个占地6亩的老旧厂房仓储区进行重新设计。业主希望建一个一亩园或者四合园墅的放大版现代园林，设置约20间客房和一栋别墅，在作为民宿酒店对外经营的同时也可度假时自住。项目的总建筑面积约4000m2，业主和我们商定，在其中尽可能多地设置公共空间，成为当地的一个文旅综合体，可以接待一部分的非住宿客人。基地北面倚河，西面是城镇道路，东面是一片果林田园，南面有其他厂区需用高墙隔开。主入口在北面，通过一座平桥跨过小河，有如沧浪亭。入口西侧的线形玻璃体量悬挑于水上，轻盈通透，人们坐在其中喝茶观景，园内与小河的景观互相渗透。西面临街是售卖文创产品的展示空间。园内分为东西两部分，西侧是砂石园，东面是水庭园。砂石园被茶室、展示空间，和南面可以举办小型宴会的餐厅围合，它们共同形成相对规整的玻璃界面，共享砂石庭院景观。位于二层和三层的客房退居其后，保留一定的私密距离。水庭园的围合界面丰富而多变，好似网师园，围绕水庭的步道檐廊，提供了游走、休憩和观望的游园体验。水庭中两道檐廊的交汇处形成一个亭子，微微漂在水上，北面的别墅被它掩在后面。东面体量的一层是小型艺术馆，也可用作手作工坊，玻璃的立面将东边田园和果林的景色借入，使整个庭园获得视觉纵深。艺术馆的二层和三层共设置8间客房，朝向东面的自然景色。
The autumn of 2019, we were commissioned by
the client to redesign an old industrial site of 4000m2, containing
some abandoned workshop buildings and warehouses. Our client hoped to build a
modern garden-villa that is the enlarged version of One Mu Garden or Quadrangle
Garden Villa. The new building would be used as a hotel (about 20 rooms) and
meanwhile a vacation villa was planned for the client’s family. The total
building area is 4000m2. We decided with the client to set up more
public spaces so that the project would be a local cultural and touristic
complex, which could receive a number of customers not staying. The site is surrounded by a river in the
north, a town road in the west and an orchard-field in the east. Another
industrial site in the south needs to be separated by high wall. The main
entrance is situated in the north side, a bridge crossing the river, which is
similar to Canglang Pavilion Garden. A linear glass volume on the west side of
the entrance is overhung above the river, which is light and transparent.
People siting and drinking tea therein, watch the landscape that permeates
mutually between the garden and the river. Retail and displaying spaces are
placed by street-side in the west. The whole garden is divided into two parts,
the east side is the water garden, and the west side is a courtyard of gravel. This
courtyard is surrounded by the tearoom, the displaying space and the canteen,
which is able to hold a party, forming a neat glass façade and sharing the view
of the courtyard. Guestrooms on the second and the third floor retreat a little
to keep a certain distance for privacy. The border of the water garden is irregular
providing full and varied surrounding façades, like Master of the Nets Garden.
Walkways and corridors around water give experiences of promenade, repose and
viewing. A pavilion is formed at the joint point of two corridors, floating
lightly above the water, hiding the villa building in the north behind its back.
The first floor of the east volume is a little art gallery, also used as an
handcraft atelier, whose glass façade brings in the landscape of the
orchard-field on the east of the site, gaining visual depth for the whole
garden. Eight guestrooms are set on the second and third floor, viewing east.