Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
This immersive environment functions as a rich symbolic landscape where spatial design becomes a vehicle for archetypal experience and cultural meaning-making. The mirrored ceiling operates as a threshold device, dissolving the boundary between physical space and infinite possibility, invoking the archetype of the cosmic mirror that appears across traditions as a symbol of self-reflection, alternate realities, and the passage between ordinary and extraordinary states of consciousness. The biomorphic sculptural forms carry layered symbolic resonance, their ovoid and bulbous shapes suggesting organic genesis, with echoes of eggs as primordial containers of potential, seedpods promising growth, and marine organisms evoking the oceanic unconscious from which life emerges. The scalloped and petal-like decorative motifs reference lotus symbolism across multiple traditions, representing purity emerging from muddy waters and spiritual awakening. The chromatic program communicates through temperature and association, with cool blues suggesting water, depth, and contemplation while warm peaches and roses evoke nurturing warmth and sensory pleasure. The polka dot floor pattern introduces the archetype of cosmic rhythm and ordered repetition, suggesting the fundamental patterns underlying apparent chaos, dots functioning as minimal symbols of unity and multiplicity simultaneously. The doubling effect of the mirrored ceiling invokes the concept of reflection as self-discovery, the encounter with one's own image within a transformed context. The vertical orientation, with forms appearing to descend from above, suggests beneficent descent, gifts from imagination or the divine made accessible within human space. The overall symbolic program transforms functional recreational space into a contemporary temple of wonder, inviting visitors into ritualized passage from ordinary consciousness into imaginative engagement.
The combination of service-oriented business with new business forms is a trend. The designer experimentally integrates the subsidiary functions of the project with main business, re-optimizes the main functions of parent-child sports training, and builds the project into a comprehensive space for swimming and sports education, integrating entertainment and leisure.