Ole Scheeren designs hotels with "hanging gardens" for Sanya

Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled designs for a hotel building made up of stacked horizontal blocks topped by plants for Chinese beach resort Sanya.

Located on the island of Hainan in southern China, the 160-metre-high Sanya Horizons will boast "hanging gardens" that can be experienced by guests.

Due to open in 2026, the tropical resort will also feature one of the world's largest infinity pools and a sky garden set 75 metres above the ground.

Sanya Horizons will combine two hotels

Büro Ole Scheeren is designing the building for developer CDF Investment & Development Co. It will include two hotels: The Regent Sanya Bay and Hotel Indigo Sanya Bay.

Scheeren's competition-winning scheme combines the two hotels in one large structure, allowing the rest of the site to remain a natural landscape.

The building will include a sky garden raised 75 metres above the ground

"Rather than creating a pair of separated towers, the hotels are stacked on top of one another, thereby occupying a smaller footprint and liberating large parts of the natural landscape on the ground," said Büro Ole Scheeren.

"This strategic manoeuvre allows the combined massing to be more structurally and ecologically efficient, and creates a memorable and iconic silhouette along Sanya's shoreline."

The building will include a 153-metre-wide infinity pool

Raised above a glazed entrance podium, the six stacked blocks will be curved towards the view of the ocean.

Plants will cover the roofs of each block to create the hanging-gardens effect, while the sky garden will be created within an opening in the building volume called the Horizons Window.

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All guest rooms will have sea views and private terraces. Select rooms called Horizon Villas will also have their own private swimming pools, which will be slotted within the building's vertical openings.

The infinity-edge Horizon Pool will be set within a cantilevered structure, spanning 153 metres in width.

Horizon Villas will boast private pools and terraces

The building's facades will comprise hexagonal grids of recessed balconies and walkways, which will help reduce the building's energy demands by providing shade.

The horizontal openings will reduce the impact of wind on the building's structure, while the internal layouts are designed to facilitate cross ventilation.

"Through those strategic measures, combined with the integration of abundant greenery throughout the building, Sanya Horizons yields a highly environmentally responsible and sustainable performance in respect of the planet and beautiful nature surrounding the project," said Büro Ole Scheeren.

The building is planned for Chinese beach resort Sanya

German architect Ole Scheeren established his firm in 2010, after making his name at OMA, and now has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, Berlin, London and Bangkok.

Stacked blocks, curved facades and sky gardens are common themes among his designs. Among his completed projects are the concave Duo towers and "vertical village" The Interlace.

In an interview with Dezeen in 2014, Scheeren said he was attracted to working in Asia because the continent has "a certain fearlessness and vision for the future".

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GS Design repeats arch motifs throughout Sumei Skyline Coast hotel on Hainan Island

Cresting ocean waves served as a blueprint for the arched forms found on the interior and exterior of this beachside hotel that GS Design has created in Sanya, China.

Located on the tropical island of Hainan, the Sumei Skyline Coast hotel was designed to reference its immediate environment.

Arches feature on the interior and exterior of the Sumei Skyline Coast hotel

The building's facade is punctuated by curved windows and balconies that suggest rolling waves, and is painted in a crisp shade of white to contrast the rich blues of the surrounding sea and sky.

"We worked to craft the space into a timely and sophisticated art piece with a long lifespan of usage by adopting this classic colour," explained Chinese architecture firm GS Design.

Sculptural white furnishings decorate the lounge area

On the ground floor, a series of upside-down arches runs along the wooden decking adjoining the infinity pool.

More spots for swimming are found on the expansive roof terrace as well as in the first-floor lounge, where stepping stones lead over a curvy-edged indoor pool.

The light-filled room is otherwise dressed with a couple of potted plants and an array of sculptural white armchairs with matching side tables.

Stepping stones lead over the curvy-edged pool

The curved shapes seen on Sumei Skyline Coast's exterior are echoed throughout its guest rooms, which are accessed via vaulted corridors.

Some rooms have circular skylights or huge round headboards that project over the beds. Others feature arched recesses accommodating cushioned bench seats or vanities.

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All bathrooms come complete with a standalone tub, positioned next to the windows to give guests optimum views of the island beyond.

In keeping with the rest of the hotel, the guest rooms are finished completely in white with textural interest provided by tufted beige decorative cushions that are scattered over the soft furnishings.

Arched or rounded forms are incorporated into the guest rooms

GS Design was established in 2014 and is based in Shenzhen.

The studio's Sumei Skyline Coast project joins a number of hotels that have recently opened across China. Among them is BAN Villa, which was designed to look like a "floating village", and Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou, a hotel modelled on ancient cave dwellings.

The photography is by Ao Xiang.

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Project credits:

Architecture, interiors and furnishing: GS Design

Design directors: Liangchao Li, Yuanman Huang

Design team: Chao Li, Zigeng Luo

Furnishing director: Yu Feng

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