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Xichang Joyhub Air Hotel by SHXDAL

Xichang Joyhub Air Hotel

Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2025

This architectural photograph presents a hospitality complex captured at dusk, featuring two substantial pavilion buildings flanking a central garden courtyard. Beginning with orientation, the image shows a landscape-format view looking across an elaborately designed outdoor space toward two large structures under a dramatic evening sky. The sky occupies the upper third of the composition, displaying soft clouds in warm coral and peachy tones against a backdrop transitioning from pale blue to deeper cerulean, suggesting the moments just after sunset when warmth and coolness blend in the atmosphere. Moving to the left side of the composition, a large pavilion rises with distinctive peaked rooflines creating triangular silhouettes against the sky, the building wrapped almost entirely in glass panels arranged in a grid pattern through which warm amber light glows from illuminated interior spaces, revealing furniture and gathering areas within. The glass creates a sensation of transparency and openness, like looking into a lantern. On the right side stands a second pavilion of similar scale but dramatically different character, this structure featuring wooden screens arranged in traditional grid patterns that filter the warm interior light into a soft honeyed glow, the timber elements suggesting the warmth and tactile quality of natural wood. The space between these buildings holds the central garden, a composition of considerable complexity that rewards careful description. Pathways of deep cobalt blue, perhaps aggregate or gravel, wind through the space in sinuous curves reminiscent of flowing water, cool and smooth in appearance. These blue rivers curve around and between mounded islands covered in vibrant chartreuse moss, fresh and soft as velvet to the touch, the green carrying the brightness of new spring growth. Large stones of silvered gray with organic weathered surfaces punctuate the garden, their irregular forms cool and rough like ancient boulders shaped by time. Small trees with delicate branching rise from illuminated bases, their leaves catching remaining daylight while their trunks glow warm from uplighting below. A small wooden boat, warm brown and smooth, rests upon one blue pathway, adding narrative and human scale.

Xichang Joyhub Air Hotel is located on the north shore of Qionghai Sea, which is designed to symbolize a poetic living experience. Create a garden style upscale leisure resort hotel experience in Xichang with a fusion of humanities and natural ecology. Key materials such as artistic paint, wood printed aluminum panels, stone, and wood finishes create a tranquil atmosphere, giving the hotel a unique character. Grey bricks, pitched roofs, and rammed earth walls are reimagined within the interior, where light toned finishes, neutral wooden panels, and deep hued marble create a harmonious space.