Jinsha Bay Country Club is located in China's famous Taoist cultural resort - Jiangsu Mao Mountain Tourist Scenic Area, leaning against the winding Mao Mountain in the north and embracing the blue waves of Jinsha Lake in the south, with the rare natural scenery and resort resources in southern Jiangsu. It has been selected as one of the top ten golf clubs in China by the authoritative magazine "Golf Master" for several years since 2015.

This project is a golf clubhouse with a construction area of 5,000 square meters. There are two main design directions: first, to fully apply the surrounding superior natural landscape resources, integrating the building into the landscape while bringing nature into the building; second, to reasonably design the movement lines of people in the building according to the functional needs of the clubhouse, including arrival, reception, logistics, storage, etc.

There are two major concerns in the clubhouse design of Jinshawan country club: how to deal with the relationship between buildings; and the relationship between buildings and nature because of an emphasis under the circumstance that the site is located on a hill of beautiful scenery. Also, to design a golf clubhouse, there is another major issue to address is to deal with the complex circulations of visitors, service, back of house, staffs and even golf clubs and carts. 

In terms of interacting with nature, the design focused on utilizing sun light/shadow and introducing nature into inner spaces. Both of these operations reflect directly onto the sections of building and buildings. Wall sections display the way sun light strikes the building interior. In the summer, sunlight is reflected by the bris-soleil to come through indoors, diffusing into the inner space along the sloped ceiling. During winter, sunlight shines through bris-soleil along the sloped ceiling directly because of the low sun angle. While speaking of introducing foliage into inner space, this reflects on sections in between buildings. Standing in building A, looking inside, one can see the bamboo and the shadow on the wall of building B generated by the light filtered by the bamboo. It is an old saying, “tree shadow removes the wall”. In the layout of the site, while walking through the buildings, at the same time, we are traversing through the woods.

The design was trying to engage client’s sense about “service” into the plan layout. The purpose is to make visitors feel hospitality without seeing any back of house complexity.