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Sky Yards Hotel by Domain Architects has deep balconies

The balconies of Sky Yards Hotel in Xiuwu County, China, are designed to focus views upwards, framing the sky and mountains instead of the construction sites below. Located in an industrial area in Henan Province, the 48-room hotel was designed by Shanghai-based practice Domain Architects and includes a restaurant, banquet hall and swimming pools. Top: The Sky Yards Hotel has a white exterior. Above: a fence mimics the shape of the terraces The building sits atop a raised concrete base concealing underground parking. L-shaped in plan, the hotel surrounds a pool and terrace. Some of the rooms overlook this courtyard, but the majority face outwards, towards views that the practice wanted to carefully control.

Sky Yards Hotel / Domain Architects

Aerial. Image © Chao Zhang Usually a hotel room would be designed as an outward box to maximize the view. Consequently, a typical hotel building would be a collection of opened boxes. Exterior. Image © Chao Zhang We rejected this conventional model and went back to the starting point of design: the room experience. We reinvented the actual experience in a typical unit: first, the exterior view below eye-level is blocked, while the view above is left open; then the opening is “lifted” or enlarged to invite more light and air; at last, full-size glass doors divided the unit into a combination of interior room and exterior micro courtyard, while the boundary in between is highly blurred. With imperceptible boundaries and a visually continuous experience, the beautiful, scroll-like view of the sky and the mountain powerfully draws attentions. During different times in a day, the sunlight interacts with the curved wall of the opening in different ways, producing dramatic and movi

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