{"id":117790,"date":"2019-01-03T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/sangha-by-octave-by-tsao-and-mckown-2018-best-of-year-winner-for-beauty-spa-project\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:56:05","slug":"sangha-by-octave-by-tsao-and-mckown-2018-best-of-year-winner-for-beauty-spa-project","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/sangha-by-octave-by-tsao-and-mckown-2018-best-of-year-winner-for-beauty-spa-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangha by Octave by Tsao &#038; McKown: 2018 Best of Year Winner for Beauty\/Spa Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the banks of Yangcheng Lake, near the 1,500-year-old Chongyuan Temple in Suzhou, China, is the health-and-wellness retreat and residential community <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoctave.com\/en-us\/sangha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sangha<\/a> by Octave, a masterpiece of master-planning by <em>Interior Design <\/em>Hall of Fame members <a href=\"articles\/11378-calvin-tsao-faia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvin Tsao<\/a> and <a href=\"designers\/256-zack-mckown-faia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zack McKown<\/a>. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the first time we&rsquo;ve been involved in <em>everything<\/em>, from the programming down to the cabinet pulls,&rdquo; Tsao says. That&rsquo;s because the property was not only designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsao-mckown.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsao &amp; McKown Architects<\/a> in Brooklyn, New York, but also developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoctave.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octave<\/a>, the socially responsible Shanghai real-estate company owned by his brother, Frederick Chavalit Tsao. They derived the name Sangha from the Sanskrit word for <em>community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"articles\/14567-resources-tsao-and-mckown-design-chinese-wellness-community-sangha-by-octave-for-both-body-and-mind\/\">&gt; Project Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Influences on the Sangha by Octave concept range from Taoism and Confucianism to the mid-century American utopian ideals of treading lightly on the earth while attempting to heal the body, mind, and soul. During the project&rsquo;s eight-year journey, Tsao and McKown&mdash;partners in life as well as business&mdash;conducted research by visiting such consciousness-raising destinations as the <a href=\"http:\/\/esalen.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esalen Institute<\/a> in California, the <a href=\"http:\/\/aspeninstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Institute<\/a> in Colorado, <a href=\"http:\/\/canyonranch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canyon Ranch<\/a> in Massachusetts and Arizona, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/kripalu.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kripalu Center for Yoga &amp; Health<\/a>, also in Massachusetts. These places sprang up as the U.S. middle class exploded after World War II, making them especially relevant references in China, now experiencing a comparable economic dynamic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-outside-lake-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"493\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/493;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-outside-lake-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"493\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The 46-acre complex lines the banks of Yangcheng Lake. Photography by Courtesy of Design Land Collaborative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Declared the world&rsquo;s fastest-growing city, currently at 5 million people, Suzhou is also a UNESCO World Heritage site&mdash;long renowned as the Venice of the East for its abundant bridges, gardens, and pagodas dotting the Yangtze River delta, about an hour&rsquo;s drive inland from Shanghai. First on Suzhou&rsquo;s short list of contemporary architectural must-sees, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peipartnership.com\/projects\/type\/cultural\/suzhou-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suzhou Museum by Pei Partnership Architects<\/a> opened in 2006. Like that project, Sangha was built in cooperation with the Chinese government. &ldquo;If they don&rsquo;t approve of what you&rsquo;re doing, they won&rsquo;t let you do it,&rdquo; Tsao says. &ldquo;But they&rsquo;re increasingly recognizing social versus economic value.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-side-tables-acacia-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-side-tables-acacia-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Side tables nearby are custom designs in acacia. Photography by Seth Powers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tsao &amp; McKown designed specific buildings at Sangha, of course. Tsao also selected a dream team of architects and designers to contribute to the 1 million-square-foot complex: <em>Interior Design<\/em> Hall of Fame members <a href=\"designers\/569-lyndon-neri\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyndon Neri<\/a> and <a href=\"designers\/570-rossana-hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rossana Hu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcjz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FCJZ Co.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bdg-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baker Design Group<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elandarchitects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eland Architects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gensler.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gensler<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsullivanllc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margaret Sullivan Studio<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pentagram.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pentagram<\/a> contributed graphics. What McKown calls &ldquo;contextual landscaping&rdquo; of local vegetation is the work of Design Land Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Part of Sangha is for the body, and part is for the mind,&rdquo; Tsao says. The residential component comprises 109 houses, plus four apartment buildings with a total of 87 units. Concerts, lectures, movies, and wedding receptions for residents and visitors take place in a dedicated events center that stands next to a chapel-like pavilion where a wedding ceremony, for example, would occur. Tsao refers to that building, one of Neri and Hu&rsquo;s contributions, as the &ldquo;jewel in the crown.&rdquo; (It already won an <a href=\"projects\/14249-pavilion-by-neri-and-hu-design-and-research-office-2017-best-of-year-winner-for-civic-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Interior Design<\/em> Best of Year Award<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-pool-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-pool-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Daniel Pouzet and Fred Frety designed the hanging seats by the spa&rsquo;s main pool. Photography by Richard Bryant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then there&rsquo;s the Wellness Center. At its East West Integrated Medical Clinic, services from blood tests to colonics are available. &ldquo;Anything short of MRIs,&rdquo; Tsao says. The levels above house the At One Wellness hotel and a spa.<\/p>\n<p>One of two hotels at Sangha, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoctave.com\/en-us\/wellness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">At One Wellness<\/a> has 69 standard rooms, three garden suites, and three of what Tsao calls &ldquo;honeymoon suites.&rdquo; Windows along each guest corridor are a unique color, both for way-finding and to interact with different orientations to the sun. The spa boasts not only a main swimming pool but also one specifically for children, along with traditional Japanese-style communal baths. In addition to a skylit hammam, a therapeutic salt room is the latest craze for curing breathing and skin problems. A dome room, floored in gray felt, is dedicated to meditation. &ldquo;The spa isn&rsquo;t sybaritic, but it&rsquo;s also not about disease. It&rsquo;s about wellness maintenance,&rdquo; Tsao explains.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-hotel-guest-room-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-hotel-guest-room-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The Fellow Traveler hotel offers 46 guest rooms. Photography by Seth Powers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sangha&rsquo;s educational hub consists of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoctave.com\/en-us\/the-village\/lodging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fellow Traveler<\/a> hotel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingoctave.com\/en-us\/the-village\/meet-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life Learning Center<\/a> for adults, and the Early Childhood Learning Center. The 46-room hotel is modeled after graduate housing you might find at a North American business school&mdash;with blocks of eight bedrooms sharing a study lounge to make it easy for groups of students, along with their instructor, to occupy their own block for an educational retreat. Subterranean, meanwhile, are the Life Learning Center&rsquo;s auditorium, lecture hall, classrooms, and four &ldquo;dialogue&rdquo; rooms. Here, you might engage in sessions of the Hakomi Method&mdash;a form of psychotherapy developed in the 1970&rsquo;s that combines Western psychology and Eastern philosophy&mdash;or workshops involving family therapy, life coaching, and facial-expression recognition.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-garage-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-garage-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>In the garage, LEDs create a kinetic installation. Photography by Seth Powers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back aboveground, studios offer instruction in visual art, ceramics, and music. And let&rsquo;s not forget the 27,000-square-foot food hall, complete with stations dedicated to individual cooking methods, a bakery, and a caf&eacute;. Visitors arriving for a class or a meal might park their cars in a garage that would ordinarily be a &ldquo;nothing space,&rdquo; Tsao says, if it weren&rsquo;t for a kinetic light installation with a disco vibe. Fresh air can be had in the community vegetable garden and alongside the unusual lap pool, a ribbon of water that follows the U shape of a cove. You can&rsquo;t swim in the lake&mdash;a protected habitat for the Shanghai hairy crab, with its claws that resemble spiky mittens. But you can stroll through the sunken, stepped &ldquo;town square.&rdquo; Tsao also likens it to a college campus quad.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there&rsquo;s the gallery. Its debut exhibition featured photographs of the contractors who made Sangha possible: concrete mixers, pavers, bricklayers, and electricians. All were invited to the opening reception, which quickly turned into a party for them. That&rsquo;s highly unusual in a country where they&rsquo;re unaccustomed to being celebrated for their work. &ldquo;We would have nothing without them,&rdquo; Tsao says. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re taught that they&rsquo;re nobodies, but they&rsquo;re <em>somebodies<\/em>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-events-center-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/tsao-mckown-sangha-octave-events-center-0218.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>The events center hosts concerts, lectures, movies, and wedding receptions. Photography by Seth Powers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"articles\/14567-resources-tsao-and-mckown-design-chinese-wellness-community-sangha-by-octave-for-both-body-and-mind\/\">&gt; Project Resources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Team:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brian-cabaniss-3931565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Cabaniss<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yunyuan-deng-scott-57384847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yunyuan Deng<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsao-mckown.com\/about\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Hoover<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mike-hsieh-a0aa801b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mike Hsieh<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsao-mckown.com\/about\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Lee<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jodel-narcisse-6865709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Jodel Narcisse<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chandler-oldham-4811a91\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chandler Oldham<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsao-mckown.com\/about\/team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Rhodes<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karin-bostanci-0720b814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karin Bostanci<\/a>; Mike Lee;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anagoldsteinkogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ana Goldstein<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joanbmarti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joan Bombard&oacute; Mart&iacute;<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yeliuchaton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ye Liu<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joanna-gulik-1abb283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joanna Gulik<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ldglover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorraine Glover<\/a>; Danielle Justino; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andy-hartmann-2a287418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Hartmann<\/a>; Joseph Roberts; Van Hsin-Sung Tsao; Ching Tai; Matt Conrad; Edward Oo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/william-vincent-7808b114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Vincent<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cornelis-brinkman-3779025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornelis Brinkman<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-jhee-22310929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Jhee<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tuan-luong-240a9120\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuan Luong<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsao-mckown.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tsao &amp; McKown Architects<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/brandston.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandston Partnership<\/a>: Lighting Consultant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pa-wellness.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PA Wellness Consultancy<\/a>: Spa Consultant. <a href=\"http:\/\/ihd-hk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHD<\/a>: Audiovisual Consultant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aurecongroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aurecon<\/a>: MEP. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfortune.hu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Fortune<\/a>: Plant Wall Contractor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"articles\/15845-interior-design-december-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; See more Best of Year Project Winners from the December 2018 issue of&nbsp;<em>Interior Design<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Story&nbsp;originally&nbsp;published&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"articles\/14572-interior-design-february-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2018 issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Sangha by Octave, a Chinese health-and-wellness retreat and residential community, Tsao &amp; McKown were both planner and architect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":149295,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":14526},"tags":[],"id_tax_domain":[12],"id_tax_product":[],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-117790","id_project","type-id_project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","id_tax_domain-hospitality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sangha by Octave by Tsao &amp; 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