Sea-Angling Beach Hotel Baisha Island

Location: Bai Sha Island, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China

Client: Putuo Coastal Tourism Development Co ltd

Building Floor Area:  3200sqm     Site area: 3800sqm

Completion: 2012

Design Team:  J Wu, R He, W Yin, ZR Song

The Baisha Island is well known for ideal sea angling conditions in the East Asia. The local government aimed to invest on a small hotel to boost the quality of tourist facilities, and took over a derelict collectively-owned shop as its site, which is in the heart of a traditional fishing village, surrounded by a mature community and just above a sandy beach. Without initial planning requirement, architects have to work out a sensitive floor area ratio and plot ratio to discuss with the client and local community. Indeed it is the community politics or inter-family relationships rather than city planning regulation influencing the planning process and results.

The adopted proposal offers maximum number of marketable guests’ rooms, encloses an internal courtyard in the middle, groups all public domain at the street level and creates a cantilevered special form overhanging above the beach, which is the only side that architects have right to design the boundary line.

All serving functions and ancillary rooms are located at the street level and partially behind the existing cobblestone party wall. All bedrooms are at the second level, while the third level has some bedrooms setting back from the beachside to ease the visual pressure to the seashore.

For the major part of external walls, a local traditional finish, whitewashed gravel rendering, was applied, and for the lower podium area dark grey terracotta tiling, for the roofing interlocked concrete tiles.