YUMING BAI
Architecture and Landscape

Zhongjihai Lake Commercial Complex

A hotel, apartment and retail complex in Lijiang, broken down into a cluster of pitched-roof volumes.

Year
2014
Role
Architect at dot Architects
Location
Lijiang, China
Tags
mixed use · commercial · massing
Aerial rendering of the complex, a cluster of timber-clad buildings with grey pitched roofs beside a road

Zhongjihai Lake Commercial Complex is a mixed-use scheme in Lijiang, China, developed at dot Architects in 2014. The site is read in relation to the Old Town of Lijiang, Yulong Snow Mountain and Zhongjihai Lake.

Street-level rendering at dusk

Daytime rendering of the hotel block and the commercial buildings along the street

Massing

The massing sequence starts from a single block filling the site and breaks it into smaller volumes with pitched roofs and open spaces between them.

Massing diagram: the site divided into large blocks Massing diagram: smaller pitched-roof volumes with courtyards

Programme

The scheme combines a hotel and apartments with a shopping mall, a supermarket, a cinema, KTV, restaurants and a commercial pedestrian street.

Programme zoning diagram of the complex

Existing buildings near the site, with mountains behind