Wonderland Intercontinental Hotel in a Quarry, Songjiang, China

Following an extensive design development over past 6 years by JADE+QA, construction of this project, featuring 336 guestroom 5 star Intercontinental resort located in approximately 280x220m, 88m deep, water filled disused quarry has been opened to public on 20th November 2018. 

The building concept retains its original ground scraper character with only 2 of the buildings levels above the ground and 16 levels, cascading down the rugged quarry cliff face . The 2 lowest levels are under water with one level utilised as guest rooms and public areas such as restaurants, facing underwater aquarium, thus creating another unique aspect of this hotel resort. The hotel also features large conference/ballroom-banqueting centre for 600 persons together with water based and climbing leisure facilities and swimming pools on the quarry bottom water level. 

Externally, there are extensively landscaped visitor facilities, such as a outdoor themed entertainment park and cantilevered glass floor overlook walkway withazip line across the width of the quarry. 

Apart from minimising the impact of this building on the local environment by adopting low profile covered with grass roof, the hotel features a spectacular glass waterfall structure to house the vertical circulation core with observation lifts. 

The mainly passive sustainable features will take advantage of the orientation, low profile, grass roof and the unique micro climate caused by the thermal properties of the quarry rock mass and the quarry lake, cooling the structure in the summer and heating in the winter. 

In fact this successful Brownfield site utilisation of a disused industrial quarry site will make this project important contribution to the principles of sustainability in China. The engineering challenges facing this project had to solve unusual problems of the seismic implications of the tall building fixed at both ends and the associated problems of fire safety, drainage, water quality and circulation associated with its unique location and the fact that the building is an inverted ‘ground scraper’. 

Technical Indexes and facilities: 

Building Area: 62,171.9m2 

Number of floors : 2 Above Ground level, 16, Below ground level, (2 under water)

Restaurants: 24 hour, Chinese, Lobby bar/cafe, Quarry level bar/cafe

Banqueting room: 600 people capacity

Protected Childrens play area

Roof top outdoor events area 

Indoor Swimming pool

Executive Club

Quarry Hotel Night View - Photo credit - Blackstation&Kevin

View from guest room - Photo credit JADE+QA

Reception lobby water feature - IHG

Level -14 Bar - IHG

Underwater Restaurant - Mr Fisher - IHG

Drone fly over view - Photo credit JADE+QA

Glass waterfall atrium - Photo credit JADE+QA

Overall Wonderland Intercontinental view from the glass walkway - Photo credit - Blackstation&Kevin

Drone Birds view of the whole quarry - Photo credit JADE+QA

Evening view - Photo credit - Blackstation&Kevin

Hotel opening light show - Photo credit - Blackstation&Kevin

Drone Bird view of the main entrance - Photo credit - JADE+QA

Glass waterfall atrium - Photo credit - JADE+QA

Spa/swimming pool- Photo credit - JADE+QA

Entrance Dragon sculpture - photo credit JADE+QA

Drone fly over view - Photo Credit -JADE+QA

Early evening view - Photo credit - Blackstation&Kevin

Sunset view - Photo Credit - Blackstation&Kevin

Level -14 Bar - Photo Credit JADE+QA

Drone bird view of the glasswaterfall - Photo Credit - JADE+QA

Under water aquarium restaurant - Photo Credit - JADE+QA

Main reception lobby with entrance water feature - Photo credit - IHG

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