Hezi SPA Hall is located in Yixing, a famous city with beautiful scenery. The whole building is composed of five floors , covering an area of 3083 square meters. The overall design of the project is delivered by S5 Design, and its inspiration comes from the "Travel Map of Mountains and Rivers", which is known as the "First Song Painting". Fan Riqiao, the designer, combines the characteristics of Yixing's local bamboo forests with many mountains and rivers. Through repeated abstraction, the five-storey building is transformed into a "mountain", with a "canyon" in the middle, a "bamboo forest" inside and a "pavilion" in water, creating a brand new and different aesthetic enjoyment. The "Traveling Map of Rivers and Mountains" seems to be carved in the base frame, making culture the underlying logic of the Hezi SPA brand.

The designer also uses the method of switching the mountain and forest scenes to obtain the experience of continuous reversal in and out of the space. Through the simultaneous regeneration of real and virtual scenes and the mutual mapping of situation and imagination, poetry and painting, nature, and contemporary aesthetics are interwoven in a limited space, but it also allows people to obtain a new sense of cultural belonging while triggering unlimited thinking. In the context of changing eras, what exactly do we "see"?

Simulation

Although there are no peaches and plums competing for beauty in the stone path, you can watch the pleated stone on the beach. The stone path leads to the valley. At the beginning of the interaction between virtual and real, I suddenly stood in front of the mountain gate, looked at the rocks on the beach, and saw the water curtain under the wall. The designer took Song as the anchor and left enough space to cover the inner room, the building and the courtyard, and the bamboo grove and low pavilion between the light curtains. Virtual and real, light and shadow, breathe in space.

The lines that are abstracted to the extreme are the restrained romance of the contemporary era. They reveal the poetic flavor of the literati in the vertical and horizontal directions, and the imagination is woven into a picture. All are specious. The light is like a waterfall, and the trickle "flows" on the water stone by the light and shadow, just like the brush strokes (rain chapped) on the mountain wall in the painting. In the heart of the pavilion, the warm light is like the moon, and the bamboo curtain is hanging in the air.  The designer recompiled the traditional humanistic elements and integrated them into the modern aesthetic framework and cognitive order. Although we don't really see the mountains, forests, streams and rocks, it is like a winding water cup, and a carbon stove cooking tea.

Restructure

Reconstruction dislocation: When we are making space, how to make traditional things present modern feelings is to deconstruct and reconstruct. --Fan Riqiao.  Different volumes appear alternately, the mountains and forests are deconstructed and reconstructed, and the mood and mind are staggered. The abstract geometry does not need to show off its skills, but to create another world in the subtle reversal, such as the inverted mirror lake and the stone under the bamboo. Scenery is not restricted to the scenery,the appearance is separated and the spirit is combined. It is full of aesthetic charm.

Internal and external

Reality and virtual reality rise at the same time, and situation and imagination map each other. Poetry and painting, nature, and contemporary aesthetics are intertwined. The designer is not merely imitating nature, tracing back to history,and reproducing poetry and painting, but also deliberately portraying the inner experience of contemporary life.

The uneven rock openings are staggered before and after, breaking the vertical and horizontal regularity of space. After stripping away the routine and conventional path, people can re-examine the world from different moods, look forward to new doors and explore possibilities.

Poetic

The sun sweeps over the grille, weaving time and clearing away the hustle and bustle. The designer abandons complicated decorations and uses the most simple light and shadow to create a quiet room, which creates physical and mental relaxation and makes people feel pity for time passing by.Designers are good at creating water in the place without water, and the water table context is always implemented in the field, either floating on the wall of the flower pool, or watching the waterfall and pleated stone. Fantasy coexists with wildness, and poetry coexists with simplicity.