Sky Yards Hotel, Henan Province Commercial Building, Chinese Architecture, Photos
Sky Yards Hotel in Henan Province
10 May 2021
Sky Yards Hotel
Design: Domain Architects
Location: Xiuwu County, Henan Province, China, China

Surrounded by unfinished building site, wasted land and industrial sites, this project is definitely not blessed with a beautiful site. The Sky Yards Hotel is located near a scenic area consists of 48 rooms, an independent restaurant, a banquet hall, swimming pools, underground parking and spaces preserved for later phase development. The site area, construction budget and time are also extremely tight and limited. Fortunately, Taihang Mountain is still visible from the site.

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.
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 atte...