The amazing architectural miracle of the world

The night before last, Xiao Hu, a relative of my daughter-in-law Nanchang, came to Shanghai by car with her family for a vacation and stayed in a guest room on the eighth floor of Continental Hotel in Shimao Deep pit, Shanghai, which they had booked for her daughter-in-law. Continental Hotel in Shenkeng, not far from where we live, is only a quarter of an hour's drive away. In order to make the best of the landlord's wishes, my son hosted a banquet in honor of the family at the Huguang Mountain Hotel in the Guangfulin ruins Park in Shanghai last night. When my son learned that my wife and I had not been to this hotel before, he proposed to show us and welcome the guests to dinner. Shanghai Shimao deep pit Continental Hotel, although close at hand, and famous, but nothing will not want to go sightseeing, now the opportunity has come naturally can not help but overjoyed.

In the middle of winter evening, and cold rain Xiaoxiao. However, the hotel parking lot and underground garage are full of all kinds of luxury cars, and there is a steady stream of Chinese and foreign guests. As soon as we step into the Deep Pit Hotel, we are overwhelmed by its unique momentum. Overlooking the 100-meter semi-cylindrical pit, you can see all kinds of scenery at a glance. A green and clear lake, as well as man-made duckweed landscape and sculptures, are unfathomable and shocking because they are all in a pit nearly 100 meters deep. The waterfall rushing down from the source stone wall is as loud as a bell, splashing countless white spray in the lake. The luxurious hotel attached to the rock face is magnificent and elegant, the style is strange and breathtaking.

Shanghai Sheshan Shimao Deep Pit Continental Hotel, located in the Tianma Mountain deep pit at the foot of Sheshan Songjiang National Scenic spot in Shanghai, is a natural Eco Hotel built in a quarry pit with an elevation of minus 88 meters invested by Shimao Group. The hotel follows the natural environment, contrary to the traditional architectural concept of sky development, 88 meters below the surface to open up building space, built on the cliff of the deep pit, is the world's first natural Eco Hotel built in a waste pit. It is praised as the architectural miracle of the world by American National Geographic. Shimao Shenkeng Hotel has set a world record for the lowest five-star hotel in the world.

We first came to the guest room where Xiao Hu and his family stayed on the eighth floor of the ground floor. They were very pleased with our arrival and took the initiative to introduce to us the situation of the hotel: unlike the general five-star hotel rooms, a series of operations have been digitally managed, without front desk assistance, guests can check in by themselves; without a room card, the mobile phone can open the door. Through Mini Program to adjust lighting, air conditioning, curtains and other facilities when leaving the room, Xiao Hu issued instructions to close the curtains and turn off the lights respectively, seeing the curtains falling slowly and all kinds of lights going out at the same time. These scenes were originally seen in science fiction films, but now they have been seen with their own eyes at Continental Hotel in Shimao Deep Pit in Shanghai.

According to Xiao Hu, from October 20, 2018, Shanghai Shimao Deep Pit Continental Hotel and Wechat have reached a strategic cooperation, which will be based on Wechat smart hotel solution. integrate WeChat Pay, Mini Program, face recognition, WeCom and other functions into every detail of hotel customer service and hotel management.

After the customer who booked the room on the Wechat platform and completed the payment arrived at the hotel, he blinked in front of the face recognition machine at the front desk of the hotel, his order immediately appeared on the screen, and the guest bound his ID card. an electronic room card is then generated on his mobile phone. Check-in is completed, and the whole process takes less than 30 seconds.

With the electronic room card, when guests arrive at the room, they only need to click in Mini Program and the door will open automatically. At the same time, WeChat Mini Programs also integrates room service, room intelligent control and other functions. Guests can even use their mobile phones to set the air conditioning temperature, open the curtains and adjust the lights before arriving in the room. At the same time, personalized services such as calling room service can also be carried out through Mini Program. When checking out, customers can also register the invoice information in advance and make an appointment to issue invoices, so as to further shorten the time for customers to check out. Watching and listening to these magical operations and introductions, let us personally experience the charm and prospect of modern science and technology.

When we came out of the guest room, Xiao Hu enthusiastically played the role of a tour guide for us. He first led us down to the sightseeing platform on the 14th floor. At this time, the hotel was already lit up, and all kinds of outline lights and decorative lights were colorful. The huge fountain is blurred and dynamic in the light.

The hotel rooms are built along the cliff and face Hengshan, fully demonstrating the design concept of blending with nature. The main building uses glass and metal plates, and the facade form of the curve is derived from the waterfall. All hotel rooms are equipped with exit corridors and balconies as sky gardens with a close view of the 100-meter waterfalls and Hengshan scenery opposite.

Today, when enjoying high-quality hotel service, don't forget the hard pioneering experience of the builders at the beginning. Because of its special geological location, the Shimao Shenkeng Hotel project has no experience to learn from in the construction process, and is faced with a series of construction challenges. The main difficulties and problems are:

1. Geological conditions, due to the design of the Maoshenkeng Hotel in the last century, it is necessary to ensure that the rock wall of the mine is strong enough to support the whole structure of the hotel through geological survey. The steep rock walls around the Shimao Shenkeng Hotel make earthquake prevention a problem. To this end, the design team inputted the results of geological survey and the engineering structural design of the hotel into the computer, carried out a series of simulation tests, repeatedly checked the strength and seismic performance of the architectural design, and finally ensured that Shimao Shenkeng Hotel could withstand earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above.

2. Fire environment, the main building of Shimao Shenkeng Hotel is located below the surface, and fire escape needs to be from the bottom up. As of 2016, there is no precedent in Shanghai for reference.

3. Flood control and drainage, in order to ensure that the water level of the artificial landscape lake at the bottom of the pit is kept at a safe height, the design team of Shimao Shenkeng Hotel is equipped with flood discharge equipment on the basis of studying the historical hydrological data of Shanghai. to install a pump to ensure that the daily water level in the lake is within a safe range.

Because of the above thorny problems, it took seven years to demonstrate the scheme, during which it experienced thousands of adjustments and optimization designs. After 8 years of development, the design and construction of the main building hanging on the pit wall, Shimao Shenkeng Hotel project construction team carried forward the spirit of ants gnawing on bones, overcome difficulties, and overcome 64 technical problems, of which 41 patents have been completed and 30 have been granted.

The total construction area of the hotel is 61087 square meters. The building pattern of the hotel is 2 floors above ground and 15 floors below ground level (including two floors below the water surface). There are a total of 336 guest rooms and suites. All rooms are equipped with viewing terraces and can enjoy cliff waterfalls. The hotel has rock climbing, landscape restaurant and 850m2 banquet hall. Below the ground level, there are facilities such as bar, SPA, indoor swimming pool and walkway, as well as underwater scene suites and underwater restaurants. The hotel is also equipped with Shanghai Shimao Elf City theme Park.

The National Geographic Channel's well-known program "Great Project Tour" has filmed in detail the whole process of the construction of Continental Hotel in Shimao Deep Pit since March 17, 2013, and will broadcast a feature documentary to the world, showing the courage and wisdom of Shimao Group and its cooperative team in solving various engineering problems.

The original idea of the hotel was put forward by Mr. Xu Rongmao, Chairman of Shimao Group. Mr. Xu Rongmao hopes to turn the scars of the city into treasures and create scarce value for the city.

In order to turn this project into another world architectural miracle, Shimao Group has hired the Atkins team led by Martin Jochman, the designer of the Dubai Yacht Hotel, to be the architectural designer, and the eighth Bureau of China Construction will be responsible for the construction.

The main building of this five-star hotel includes hotel lobby, conference center, guest room, entertainment, catering and logistics services. With an investment of tens of billions of yuan, the whole project is a modern characteristic building with a combination of natural indoor garden, large landscape waterfall, landscape presidential house, water view room and so on.

Won the MIPIM Asia China Future Architecture Gold Award in Hong Kong in 2011, Best International Hotel Architecture in London in 2013, and Best Hotel Design Award in China luxury Hotel and Resort Design Summit Forum in 2014.

Shimao Group made full use of the natural environment of the pit and imaginatively built this five-star hotel. The whole hotel and the pit are integrated and complement each other. This is not only a miracle in the history of human architecture, but also the aggregator of nature, humanities and history. It has witnessed another achievement and ability of Chinese civilization and modern scientific and technological innovation.

Combined with the characteristics of the quarry pit in the hotel base, the hotel also introduces a variety of entertainment services such as bungee jumping center, underwater restaurant, landscape restaurant, water SPA, indoor swimming pool and other entertainment services suitable for cliff and water sports. Except for the bungee jumping center and the landscape restaurant located on the ground floor, the other projects are set up near the water, blending with scenery and setting off each other, such as entering Wonderland.

Shanghai, January 17, 2020