Hot Spring Facilities Plan 2,
Guizhou Province, China
(2017, planning/conception only)

In another project consigned by Guizhou Province, we conceived a plan to build a hot spring resort on the site of a former community. Unlike the project site in Hot Spring Facilities Plan 1, we proposed facilities that would not only be a tourist destination but could eventually become a community on a long and narrow riverside site surrounded by mountains. The plan included four bridges crossing over the river that ran through the site from downstream to upstream. Anyone could cross the first downstream bridge to an area containing various stores and the like; the second bridge would lead to hot spring and accommodation facilities; overnight guests could use the third bridge to access a restaurant, fitness club, etc.; and the fourth bridge in the uppermost reaches would connect to leisure homes for long-term guests. Rather than having simply a hotel-centered tourism industry like in conventional plans, we aimed to form a community not dependent on any one industry, in which various stores and companies could conduct business and where leisure home users seeking to have two living bases with their city homes could stay for extended periods. Although we had no involvement in the specific planning, we proposed two novel hot spring facilities based on the perspective of community development.