An architecture, massing and concept study for a 256-room sports and well-being resort with 76 serviced apartments, set in the lake-and-garden landscape of southern Jiangsu, and extending the Thanyapura programme model from its Phuket flagship into mainland China.
C:B was commissioned to lead the early-stage architecture, massing and concept work, the design phase that takes a developer's brief and shapes it into a buildable, programme-coherent hospitality scheme before any contractor arrives on site. The Changshu project is the first overseas extension of the Thanyapura sports-and-well-being programme, and the early design had to translate the Phuket flagship's operational standards into a Chinese hospitality typology.
Our scope translated the operating model (multi-functional training, integrated medical and lifestyle clinic, food and beverage built around the resident) into a programme that fits the Changshu site: a state-of-the-art ballroom, a food court spanning Chinese and Western kitchens, an event square, and a nautical sports centre on the lake frontage. We worked alongside MO Atelier Szeto on the architecture and engaged the Changshu municipal alignment that anchors the project.
The concept package, architectural, programmatic and visual, was delivered and handed over successfully to the Thanyapura Changshu ownership team to carry forward into construction. C:B's role on Changshu was the design-stage work; the build itself is being completed under the owners' direction with their construction partners.
Concept renders from the project documentation, guest tower, serviced apartments, lakeside training and lifestyle facilities arranged in a single integrated programme.
A single integrated programme, guest rooms and serviced apartments alongside the lifestyle clinic, training halls, ballroom, food court and event square.
Operating-standard hospitality is not a building, it is a series of interlocking systems that have to be designed to work together long before they are built. The Thanyapura programme is particularly demanding because the sports, medical and hospitality components share users, mechanical infrastructure, and brand experience. The studio's role on Changshu was to align all of those systems at the concept stage, and to deliver a package the ownership team could carry forward to construction without rebuilding the design intent from scratch.
Architecture, massing and concept study delivered and handed over to the Thanyapura Changshu ownership team for construction and completion under their direction.
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