Xiangshan Hotel is a four-star hotel designed by internationally renowned Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, which integrates classical architectural art, landscape art and environmental art. The designer tries to "embody the essence of China's national architectural art in a modern building" and express the architect's thoughts on the national road of China. Architects take the simple and approachable houses in the south of the Yangtze River as the external modeling, and skillfully integrate the modern western architectural principles with the traditional China architectural techniques into an architectural space with China temperament.

She looks ordinary on the outside, just like a beautiful girl on the inside. Her appearance may seem inconspicuous at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more you will feel the natural beauty of her light makeup, which is the overall impression of the building. The front hall, lobby and backyard of the building are distributed on a north-south axis. The continuity of spatial sequence creates the deep aesthetic expression of China traditional architecture courtyard. There is a small bridge connected to the platform in the center of "Qushui Liutan"-imitating the meaning of "Qushui Liutan" in Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting.

The total volume is about 6.5438+0.5 million cubic meters, but there is no visual behemoth. Architects skillfully created a courtyard-style space, crawling between mountains and shade, like plants growing wantonly. This building is nestled in the arms of Xiangshan Mountain. In order to preserve precious ancient trees, the shapes of some buildings have been staggered and moved, and the shapes have acquired the characteristics of garden buildings. Water, mountains, mountains and towering ancient trees are integrated. ......

Xiangshan Hotel is built in Xiangshan Park, more than 20 kilometers northwest of Beijing. The scenery here is natural, with ancient trees, flowing water, green shade and red leaves, which determines that Xiangshan Hotel is integrated into its environment with its typical garden and residential characteristics.

In the plane layout, Bayes follows the tradition of the central axis and has eternal vitality. Courtyard-style architectural layout forms the essence of design: the entrance vestibule is rarely green and treated as a square, which is not found in traditional garden buildings in China, but focuses on the requirements of future tourism functions; The back garden is the main courtyard of Xiangshan Hotel. It is surrounded by buildings on three sides, and the south is open. The mountains are near the water, the paths are stacked with stones, and the tall trees are covered with grass. The layout is very decent, with both the exquisite features of Jiangnan gardens and the open space of northern gardens. Because there is an "evergreen quadrangle", a pool, a rockery and several bamboos in the middle, the vestibule and backyard are continuous.

The decoration of the whole Xiangshan Hotel, from outdoor to indoor, basically only uses three colors, white is the main tone, gray is the middle tone second only to white, and it is yellow-brown, as an ornament of a small area. These three colors are organized together, whether indoors or outdoors, they are very unified, harmonious and elegant, so that people who come to Xiangshan Hotel will never forget being in Xiangshan Hotel when they see every tiny part. This seems simple, but it is the most difficult to do.

I.M. Pei boldly reused two simplest geometric figures in her works, namely, square and circle, namely, doors, windows, empty windows and leaky windows, patterns on both sides of windows and leaky windows, brick decorations on walls, wall lamps and palace lamps. Even the stair railing lamp of the street footlamp is a regular cube, cleverly organized with circles. The circle is used to decorate the front porch of the moon door, lamp, coffee table and banquet hall. Even the partition number on the door of the room was circled. This treatment is obviously well thought out, which hides some intention of the designer-the rhythm and richness above repetition. For example, Memory of the South of the Yangtze River is filled with white bricks, snow, white walls, bamboo, court lights, pines, paving the way. ......

Judging from the iconic facade and coffee shop of Xiangshan Hotel, you may become a landscape in someone's eyes.

The famous French painter Zhao Wuji reveres the architectural masterpieces of his best friend I.M. Pei. In order to keep harmony with the whole building, he abandoned all concrete forms and rich colors, and splashed out masterpieces of Chinese painting with pure ink and became a part of Xiangshan Hotel. The artistic realm of the two masters was passed down as a much-told story for some time.