Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2025
SHXDAL's architectural vision for the Joyhub Air Hotel activates multiple layers of symbolic meaning through its sophisticated orchestration of form, material, and spatial sequence. The bilateral arrangement of twin pavilions may be understood as embodying principles of complementary duality, where transparency and filtered screening represent different modes of dwelling and perception that together create wholeness through their dialogue. The glass-wrapped pavilion speaks to values of openness, clarity, and the dissolution of barriers between interior sanctuary and exterior nature, while its timber-screened counterpart evokes traditions of mediated experience, where beauty is enhanced through partial concealment and the interplay of light and shadow. The garden composition between these structures draws upon deep wellsprings of Eastern landscape symbolism, where the sinuous pathways suggest the flow of water and the vital energy that moves through all living systems. The cobalt blue aggregate functions as symbolic water without literal presence, creating what scholars of garden design might recognize as a dry stream garden that activates imagination and memory rather than presenting literal imitation. Scholar rocks placed throughout the composition carry centuries of cultural significance as embodiments of cosmic forces and natural processes, their weathered forms suggesting vast temporal scales and the patient work of elemental forces upon matter. The presence of a small boat upon the blue pathway introduces powerful archetypes of journey, passage, and transition, perhaps suggesting the guest experience as one of crossing thresholds into states of renewal and contemplation. The vegetation strategy, with its mounded moss forms and carefully placed specimen trees, evokes idealized natural landscapes compressed into intimate scale, inviting meditation upon the relationship between human cultivation and natural processes. The warm light emanating from architectural interiors against the cooling twilight sky creates symbolic temperature contrast that may suggest the hospitality promise itself, the provision of warmth, comfort, and welcome against the vastness of the natural world.
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.