ALILA酒店
上海 / 厦门
An aerial resort precedent demonstrating tiered hospitality architecture that integrates expansive infinity pools and outdoor terraces with a waterfront landscape.
- What we like about this project
- Multiple stacked infinity water planes create a stepped cascade visual effect leading down to the natural body of water.
Materials
- stone
- glass
- timber
- water
- metal
Visual identifiers
- infinity-pool
- waterfront-resort
- tiered-terraces
- twilight-lighting
- flat-roof
Style tags
- contemporary
- luxury
- hospitality
- modern-tropical
Visual tags
- hospitality
- resort
- waterfront
- infinity-edge
- luxury
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing stepped down toward the waterfront, featuring stacked rectilinear volumes, flat roof terraces, and cantilevered infinity pool edges.
- Facade system
- Open-air terraces with glazed balcony railings and stone-clad massing elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with post-tensioned slabs supporting elevated pools and terraces.
- Spatial scale
- Large resort scale; multi-level terraces with human figures and cabanas providing scale cues against the expansive landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight illumination with warm artificial lighting from interior spaces and cabanas contrasting against the cool, low ambient light of dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luxurious dusk atmosphere with warm glows balancing the cool twilight air.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront resort setting with dense surrounding tree canopy and distant mountain silhouettes across the lake or sea.
- Spatial experience
- A panoramic progression moving from intimate cabana decks and glowing pool terraces outward to the vast open horizon of the water.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal layering established by flat roofs, pool decks, and the distant horizon line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury resort architecture
- Program
- Luxury resort hotel and spa
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, glass, timber, water, metal
- Visual identifiers
- infinity-pool, waterfront-resort, tiered-terraces, twilight-lighting, flat-roof
- Style tags
- contemporary, luxury, hospitality, modern-tropical
- Visual tags
- hospitality, resort, waterfront, infinity-edge, luxury
- Geometry
- Low-slung horizontal massing stepped down toward the waterfront, featuring stacked rectilinear volumes, flat roof terraces, and cantilevered infinity pool edges.
- Facade system
- Open-air terraces with glazed balcony railings and stone-clad massing elements.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with post-tensioned slabs supporting elevated pools and terraces.
- Spatial scale
- Large resort scale; multi-level terraces with human figures and cabanas providing scale cues against the expansive landscape.
- Lighting
- Twilight illumination with warm artificial lighting from interior spaces and cabanas contrasting against the cool, low ambient light of dusk.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and luxurious dusk atmosphere with warm glows balancing the cool twilight air.
- Environmental context
- Waterfront resort setting with dense surrounding tree canopy and distant mountain silhouettes across the lake or sea.
- Spatial experience
- A panoramic progression moving from intimate cabana decks and glowing pool terraces outward to the vast open horizon of the water.
- Composition rhythm
- Strong horizontal layering established by flat roofs, pool decks, and the distant horizon line.
- Style reading
- Contemporary luxury resort architecture
- Program
- Luxury resort hotel and spa
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture