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ENISHI Resort Villa
A collaborative island hotel brings undulating concrete floors and deep internal voids to Penghu.
Tall central void connecting the hotel’s circulation spaces
The project
ENISHI Resort Villa is a three-storey hotel on Taiwan’s Penghu Island, developed through a collaboration between Japanese and Taiwanese architects. The client’s connection to her island and family informed a brief for a small hotel rooted in its setting.
An enclosed concrete exterior gives way to undulating floor plates and deep voids that carry light through the building. Shared spaces and guest rooms sit within this continuous interior, with a restrained palette of concrete, metal and glass.
- Practice
- CHIASMA FACTORY
- Year
- 2018
- Photographer
- Ryuji Shiraishi
- Project type
- Boutique hotel
- Levels
- 3
- Guest rooms
- 10
- Design collaboration
- CHIASMA FACTORY, Norisada Maeda Atelier, Kai Architects and Atelier SHARE
- Structural design
- A.S.Studio
Steel stairs and walkways crossing the planted concrete courtyard.
In its project account, CHIASMA describes translating recordings of the client’s and architect’s brainwaves into floor and void geometries. The resulting architecture was developed through a seven-year design and construction process, completing in 2018.
The project credits include CHIASMA FACTORY, Norisada Maeda Atelier, Kai Architects, Atelier SHARE and structural designer A.S.Studio. Ryuji Shiraishi’s photographs document the building.
Undulating concrete floor plates and a glass-block entrance
Open steel stair rising through the board-marked concrete courtyard.
Guest washroom with a glass-block screen and concrete basin counter
The concrete villa seen from the neighbouring street.
Credits
- Project management, architecture, concept and basic design
- CHIASMA FACTORY
- Project lead, architecture, concept and basic design
- Norisada Maeda Atelier
- Architecture and execution design
- Kai Architects
- Architecture and project facilitation
- Atelier SHARE
- Structural design
- A.S.Studio
- Construction
- Kai-Zhan Construction Co.
- Photography
- Ryuji Shiraishi
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