Text description provided by the architects
a lemon refreshes your summer With an increasing number of visitors to Aranya recent years, the beach is easily overloaded in summer. More qualitied spaces are demanded. Thus, pools at south of ClubMed Hotel are designed to cater more leisure and hospitality experience for people. At the beginning of our design process,the site is not just conceived of as a functional place but a hub with joys mingled into the spirit of Aranya. Next to the sea, We want to bring people a touch of coolness. This slice of lemon, just like a cool drink in heated summer, with its vivid and refreshing apprearance, is able to offer people the coolness and resiliency. The design process of the lemon pool for children starts in a dramatic approach, embedding a "lemon slice" into the site. Yellow has very high brightness, just like a glass of juice overflowing with vitality. In addtional to creating identical representation to lemon, the design of the pool accentuates the diverse use simultaneously. With the center of the pool higher than its edge, the lemon slants from a sheet of water to a shallow 1. 5-feet water. The slight level variation makes the pool more playful and interactive. In order to make best representation for "lemon slice", the pool is pixelated by crystal mosaic tiles in 3 colors - "white, light yellow and yellow". The reapeating module of 300x300mm is composed of a single mosaic tile of 25x25mm, which not only ensures the overall appearance and granular detail of "lemon slice", but also makes the construction easy and implementable. The 3-color mosaic tiles in the water make the pool a complete graphic of lemon in distance while they're also bringing the detail richness in close-up view angles. Under the sun, the ripple of water fluctuates from center to edge animateing the lemon in a dynamic combination of yellow juice, blue water and sunshine. It's fully an enhanced experience of nature and liveness in Aranya. In contrast to bright yellow of the lemon pool, the neighboring pure white trellis structure is bringing you to a rectangular lap pool with an infinite edge towards the sea. The picturesque view from the lounge chair to the beach is just stunning with only white and blue in your eyes - white sand and white ceramic concrete pool deck versus blue sky and blue pool. That inclusiveness from the nature is just touching and mind-blowing. in Aranya, everything comes with nature, simple, mild and sophisticated with a brush of the yellow, summer in aranya is not so heated but refreshing, and more elegant, and more vibrant. Project Location :aranya, Qinhuangdao, China