Silver Architecture · 2021
Flowers of Clouds Observation Tower and Coffee
by Vu Van Hai
- Silver A' Design Award 2021 in Architecture
- CLIENT: Vha Architects
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 25,156
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About Flowers of Clouds Observation Tower and Coffee
Flowers of Clouds is an observation tower with a coffee space, located in Da Lat City, Vietnam. The tower is formed by 27 steel modules, 12 meters high, shaped like a lotus flower. Corten steel covers the outer surface, and the foundations are made of reinforced concrete. The coffee space of 600 square meters is raised to a height of 8 meters and includes an internal well hole. A continuous ramp between two rows of columns leads visitors gradually upward. The roof is a garden and an outdoor coffee area with panoramic views of the landscape.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Flowers of Clouds Observation Tower and Coffee is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Flowers of Clouds Observation Tower and Coffee is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Flowers of Clouds Observation Tower and Coffee is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The flower tower appears as a giant sculpture, structuring of 27 steel modules with 12m height stylized like a lotus flower, lifting the coffee space of 600m2 at an altitude of 8m and comprising internal well hole. The entire roof area is a garden to grow large confetti and large space for visitors to admire the surrounding landscape. A continuous ramp is located in the middle of the two columns to help visitors viewing the landscape gradually like a flowing river before enjoying the panoramic view at the rooftop.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project is with a building scale of 600 square meters
W30m x D30m x H12m - Tags
- Architecture, Hotel, Resort, Coffee, Modern, Natural, Elegant, Cultural, Futuristic, Corten Steel
- Production Technology
- The flower tower is supported by a steel frame structure and corten steel covering the outer surface and the foundations are made in reinforced concrete.
- Design Challenge
- The project is the focal point of the 250-hectare resort project complex surrounded by pine hills and natural landscapes. It requires us to come up with a unique and creative idea of the form to highlight the entire resort project, and you can see it as far away as possible.
The main challenge is that we have to find a construction engineering solution that is suitable for low construction costs in the financial conditions affected by the covid-19 pandemic. - Research
- The flower tower really stands out with the orange-red combination of corten steel covering the outer surface, along the large curve of the petals module, in a natural landscape. It appears as a lighthouse to guide the visitors when visiting and exploring this area.
We have designed a space where people can observe and feel stunning nature at different latitudes. Tourists, flower tower and nature are integrated here. - Inspiration
- Da Lat is a city of highland considered to be most romantic in Vietnam with natural pine-tree hills, colorful flower valleys planted by local farmers. The city is all the year around surrounded by clouds. The project is located on the hills at an altitude of about 1,000 meters above sea level, inheriting all the typical natural conditions of this land.
Like a flower sprouting from a cloud, named the flower tower. It functions as an observation tower comprising the coffee and fastfood space in the vast natural landscape. Our design inspiration is not only a simple observatory tower or coffee space is put up high. Instead, we want to create an impressive, eye – catching works transferring a message of spiritual belief through lotus images. - Project Duration
- Study in July 2020. Expected construction commencement Avril 2021. Location in Da Lat City Vietnam.
- Operation Flow
- Visitors enter the building from a small hall at the entrance to the ground floor with two rows of orange-red corten steel columns and a sky-well space. A continuous ramp between the two columns that can take you to the first floor is a coffee and restaurant space. The rooftop is for stretching flowers and outdoor coffee space as well as allowing visitors to see the whole area.
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- all the copyright reserved by VHA Architects, 2021