Silver A' Design Award Winner 2025
Porto Folio Architects's CTG Sanya Treasure Multifamily Residential operates as an architectural meditation on the symbolic resonance of horizontality, where the stacked balcony bands encode associations with geological time, natural stratification, and the patient accumulation of sedimentary layers that characterize coastal landscapes. The undulating profiles of these bands activate archetypal imagery of water in motion, suggesting wave forms frozen at the moment of their most graceful expression, transforming the building into a monument to the elemental forces that shape shorelines and erode stone. The warm ivory materiality carries connotations of precious substance, evoking associations with limestone, travertine, and other noble materials historically employed to signify permanence, refinement, and cultural achievement. The curvilinear ground-level canopy introduces the symbolic vocabulary of shelter and embrace, its sweeping form suggesting protective wings or the gesture of welcome that invites passage from exterior to interior realms. The extensive glazing systems communicate values of transparency, openness, and the dissolution of boundaries between interior comfort and exterior landscape, embodying contemporary aspirations toward connection with natural environments. The tripartite vertical organization, with its grounded podium, rhythmic residential mass, and distinctive crown element, echoes classical architectural traditions of base, shaft, and capital, encoding timeless principles of visual hierarchy and compositional resolution. Subtropical plantings contribute their own symbolic register, with palms traditionally associated with paradise, victory, and tropical abundance. The overall architectural composition suggests a philosophy of living that values aesthetic refinement, environmental responsiveness, and the cultivation of spaces where daily life unfolds within carefully considered relationships between interior and exterior, structure and landscape, permanence and fluidity.
Ctg Sanya Treasure is a multifamily residential community designed to embrace the essence of tropical living. Set along the river in Haitang Bay, the project features 38 medium rise towers immersed in a lush jungle landscape. Inspired by the fluidity of nature, the design fosters a seamless blend between indoor and outdoor spaces, with wrap-around balconies encircling open floor plans that promote natural cross-ventilation and uninterrupted views.