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The Temple House
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apartments, as well as an array of restaurants, cafes,
and other general facilities.
Throughout the design process, Make and Swire
Hotels undertook rigorous testing of visual and
expe riential possibilities relating to surface textures,
internal light and shadow effects, and interior views.
The city-facing and internal courtyard-facing facades
were given entirely different treatments; the former
is essentially solid and brick-built, the latter are sheer
curtain-walls of subtly fritted glass, which maximise
the reflection of light into the courtyard.
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The city-facing brick facades of the hotel and
apartment segments were inspired by the local
production of brocade, with façade panels formed
of brick and black solid reconstituted stone lintel
elements. The three-dimensional woven façade
combines modern design with the traditional
Chengdu architectural elements of timber, brick and
step stones.
steep hillsides when seen from beneath. The terracing
effect was echoed even more dramatically in the
design of the grand staircase that connects the ground
floor reception area to the courtyard.
The Temple House forms part of Chengdu’s Daci
Temple Cultural and Commercial Complex, a largescale mixed-use development by Sino-Ocean Land
and Swire Properties, in one of the city’s many rapidly
developing urban areas.
The light-wells embedded in the courtyard layer,
organically shaped in plan and stepped in section, are
reminiscent of the terraced paddy fields of Sichuan’s
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Architect: www.makearchitects.com
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Images: www.johnmaddenphoto.com