Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au has designed the winning entry for the Dawang Mountain Resort Changsha, in China – winter sports resort and water park across an abandoned cement-mining quarry and lake. The winning proposal combines an Entertainment ice world with an Indoor Ski Slope, a Water Park and supporting leisure facilities.
The aim was to integrate the building’s volume into a unique landscape and the resort is positioned directly on top of a historical cement mining quarry pit and the lake. In the design solution towards the South and East, the existing quarry pit is revealed and the sculpted shell of the Snow and Ice World spans 170 meters from cliff to cliff over a sunken and hanging garden creating a new functional leisure space of islands, water, cliffside pathways and ramps connecting the building to this natural heritage. Read the rest of this entry »