Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2020
A grand interior swimming pool extends before you in landscape format, its still turquoise-green water occupying the entire lower half of the composition and creating perfect mirror reflections of everything above. The pool measures approximately twenty-five meters long, stretching away from your viewpoint toward the far wall where two large glowing spheres command attention. These spherical forms, each roughly two meters in diameter, emit warm honey-gold light reminiscent of afternoon sunlight through amber glass, their surfaces showing organic mottling like illuminated alabaster or the warm glow of harvest moons. The water beneath them reflects their golden light, creating luminous pools within the larger aquamarine expanse. Above, a smooth white ceiling spans the full width and length of the space, feeling cool and expansive like a pale overcast sky, punctuated only by small recessed lights and thin dark linear reveals. Along the left side, substantial white rectangular columns create an arcade, their surfaces smooth as polished plaster. Between these columns, graceful arched openings curve upward, suggesting shelter and transition to adjacent spaces. Dark sculptural figures on pedestals and minimal lounge chairs occupy this colonnade area. The right side opens dramatically through floor-to-ceiling windows divided by vertical and horizontal frames into a grid pattern, admitting soft diffused daylight that feels like morning light through thin clouds. A single person walks along the far pool deck, their small scale emphasizing the generous proportions of this space, which feels calm, quiet, and reverential, the temperature suggesting comfortable warmth, the atmosphere hushed with only the subtle sense of water's presence.
The project attempts to fuse notable elements from Chinese traditions with modern beauty-appreciation and lifestyle, in a relatively eclectic way. Combining three or more functional sections into a space becomes a kind of trends in China and many other countries, due to customer experience and management operation. The club, swimming pool and restaurant were given three different elements to stand out from each other.