Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2025
Entering this exhibition space, visitors encounter a dramatic architectural interior approximately twelve meters wide and extending perhaps twenty meters in length, with your attention immediately drawn upward to an extraordinary ceiling installation that occupies the entire overhead plane and creates the room's defining visual character. Beginning with spatial orientation and scanning from top to bottom, the ceiling presents as a dense accumulation of white geometric forms, hundreds of angular polygonal pieces that cluster together like a crystalline growth or an inverted landscape of abstract peaks and valleys, each piece smooth as polished stone and pure white like fresh snow, creating a textured overhead canopy that catches and reflects light in endlessly varied ways as your eye travels across its undulating surface. These geometric elements range in size from perhaps thirty centimeters to nearly a meter across, with the larger forms concentrated in certain zones creating areas of greater visual density and dimensional projection, while smaller elements fill interstices and transition zones, and the overall effect suggests something between natural ice crystal formations hanging from a cave ceiling and a precisely engineered technological surface, smooth and cool-looking but possessing organic rhythms in its clustering patterns. The lighting throughout feels soft and diffused, coming primarily from natural daylight entering through an extensive band of floor-to-ceiling windows that wrap around portions of the space, creating gentle illumination that washes across the white surfaces without harsh shadows, producing a luminous quality like an overcast day where light seems to come from everywhere at once, though subtle shadows collect in the recesses between ceiling elements, adding depth and emphasizing the three-dimensional sculptural quality of the installation overhead. Moving your attention downward to the middle zone of the space, the walls flow in smooth continuous curves, also finished in pristine white that appears soft and matte like fine plaster, creating a gentle enclosure that contrasts with the complex angular geometry above, and these curved wall surfaces rise from floor level and sweep upward before transitioning into the densely articulated ceiling, maintaining consistent material character throughout. The floor appears equally smooth and white, creating a seamless horizontal plane that extends uninterrupted except for a prominent curved architectural model positioned centrally in the foreground, this model perhaps three meters long and raised on a sleek white display plinth that follows a sinuous curved plan, the model itself depicting what appears to be a large development with multiple buildings rendered in blacks, grays, and touches of green representing landscape elements, providing the only significant color variation within this otherwise achromatic environment. Beyond this central model and through the extensive glazing, exterior views reveal a waterscape with calm water reflecting cool blue-gray tones suggesting either overcast conditions or early evening light, along with landscaped grounds showing bare winter trees and maintained pathways, connecting this pristine interior environment to natural contexts beyond. The overall spatial experience feels serene and contemplative, the soft lighting and monochromatic palette creating a calm atmosphere like being inside a cloud or within a carefully controlled environment insulated from outside disturbances, while the dramatic ceiling installation maintains visual interest and invites prolonged upward gazing, producing a sense of sheltered enclosure combined with vertical expansiveness, the space feeling simultaneously intimate through its human-scaled floor area and grand through its elaborate overhead treatment that transforms what might otherwise be a simple rectangular room into a memorable experiential environment.
As the exhibition center for the world's largest indoor ski resort, the project integrates the design language of Ice, Light and Art, to create an immersive exploration experience through six themed scenes, showcasing ice and snow culture alongside urban innovation. Its flexible spatial layout ensures a seamless transition from exhibition to future commercial operations, delivering lasting economic and cultural value while driving the rise of ice and snow tourism in southern China.