A Sculptural Landscape Inspired
by Textile Weaving Heritage
Le Meridien Zhengzhou transforms its outdoor space into a sculptural landscape that celebrates the city’s rich textile heritage.
Inspired by the graceful motion of waving fabrics, the design flows through the site like a living tapestry, weaving together history, art, and modern hospitality. More than just scenery, this landscape offers a sensory experience that honors local identity and invites global travelers to connect with the place, its culture, and its comfort.
Project Information ↘︎
Client & Developer
建业集团重点项目公司Central China
Architect
Neri&Hu
Status
Completed
Landscape Area
6,000 sq.m.
Year
2021
Award
- World Architecture Festival (2022)
- Architecture Masterprize (2022)
- Architizer A+ Awards (2023)
- CREDAWARD (2022)
- World Architecture Festival China (2024)
Design Director
Prapan Napawongdee
Landscape Architect
Qiwen Huang
Thanapol Masuchand
Horticulturist
Tanee Sawasdee
Collaborator
C&S Engineering: 北京正红
Landscape Construction Drawing
and On-site Team: 北京正红
Landscape Architect of Record: 北京正红
Photographer: Arch-Exist
Graphic Designer:
Thanaphum Thongprasert
Warunya Rujeewong
Le Meridien Hotel is located in an urban intersection of Zhengzhou City, China. It is a small-scale renovation project with around 6,000 sq.m of landscape area in the front of existing five-star hotel completed in 2013 by Neri & Hu.
Client’s brief is looking for a stunning hotel frontage landscape to improve the overall appearance as well as resolving the ground parking spaces and vehicular movement at the same time. With the location that is located in a quite densely populated area we set to achieve a landscape that is interactive, imaginative and artistically crafted to become the new landmark for this neighborhood.
As a respect to historical weaving textile industry of Zhengzhou, we created sculptural-like landscape weave and fold to reveal an aesthetically pleasing public space. Series of undulating lawn stripe represent the silk being woven – up and down – into fabric sheets by traditional machine.
Interval space is defined by matching the existing lobby pillars and architectural orders to stitch the landscape and building together in the master plan seamlessly integrated with car parking layout. Water feature stripes with sculpture is proposed in front of lobby drop-off as main welcoming elements.
The use two different colors for finishing of stainless steel for the planters is to play with the unique public/private characters of the urban hotel. When view from public road side, brilliant bronze color is used to project an outgoing and fun energy signify this urban corner while black mirror material is selected to achieve a calmer and more relaxing when perceived from the hotel side looking out.
With the fact that there are massive structures of new underground metro station beneath half of our landscape spaces, we took great care in coordination of paving patterns, manholes and planting soil depth to achieve a simplistic design result
This is including camouflaging the four ventilation shafts and emergency staircase structure that pops up in landscape with mirror finishes making them disappear visually.
After the landscape was completed, it lightens up the whole hotel district with the wavy lawn stripe, the unified reflective water feature, and the interplay of reflection from mirrored planter finishes. It’s a privately owned public space that becoming a new gathering spot catered for various activities from meeting up with friends, Instagram selfie to wedding photoshoot
