Located outside the city of Ganzhou, Ten Times Hotel is a unique transformation of old dormitory buildings undertaken by Monolith Architects. Using the existing external steel frame as the basic structure of the overall building, a new façade system is set up. The structural frame also provides structural support for a new roof attic and a new logistics traffic space.
The design retains the basic shape and volume of the original building and celebrates the most widely used materials in rural Chinese architecture, such as steel structure, broken aluminium glass windows, brick, concrete ad plywood.
A new glass façade reshapes the overall image of the building and also turns the semi-outdoor corridor space into a part of the indoors, enriching indoor to outdoor spatial connections. Three original big trees have been preserved and become integrated into the building in terms of façade and plan structure.
The exterior walls of 12 existing small rooms (15 m2 each)are opened up to create bright and spacious feeling guestrooms. The incorporation of roof lights further helps to make exterior interior spaces brighter.
The building has three relatively independent entrances and vertical traffic lines: the largest central entrance hall is connected to the four guest rooms upstairs, with two three-bedroom groups, each with independent vertical access on either side.
