Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021
Arching concrete forms function as architectural signifiers of organic growth and natural shelter, their parabolic curves evoking the protective geometry found in shells, seed pods, and unfurling leaves, positioning the resort within symbolic traditions that associate curved enclosure with nurturing sanctuary and return to primordial dwelling forms. The color symbolism operates through deliberate orchestration of the archetypal earth-sky dialogue: verdant green grounds invoke fertility, renewal, and paradisiacal abundance across numerous cultural traditions, while the cerulean expanse above suggests transcendence, clarity, and infinite possibility, together creating a chromatic narrative of grounded aspiration. The exoskeletal structural expression carries connotations of transparency and honesty in construction, revealing rather than concealing the forces that enable the building to stand, perhaps suggesting values of authenticity and openness within the hospitality experience offered. Glass as threshold material holds particular symbolic weight, functioning simultaneously as barrier and invitation, creating visual porosity while maintaining environmental separation, a liminal membrane between interior refuge and exterior paradise. The tripartite vertical organization echoes classical compositional hierarchies: earthbound verdant base, mediating structure of human habitation, and celestial realm above, potentially readable as an architectural allegory of human existence situated between material and spiritual domains. Tropical vegetation carries associations with exotic abundance and leisure, encoding cultural aspirations toward escape, regeneration, and contact with idealized nature. The integration of living plants within architectural structure suggests contemporary values around sustainability and biophilic wellness, symbolically proposing that technological achievement and ecological sensitivity need not exist in opposition but might achieve productive synthesis.
Inspired by the undulating green landscape of the golf course, Dusit Thani Laguna, nestled in the renowned Laguna National Golf & Country Club in Singapore, is an urban golf resort development which features a union of a world-class golf club and a Dusit Thani-branded hotel. The awkward marriage of two buildings with largely different functions, is disguised by the unified form of the roof. The sleek, curvilinear roof, which makes the architecture of the building, displays a uniform seamless surface with no visible joints, complementing the surging gorgeous landscape of the golf course.