Beauty of Hotel In Inner Mongolia
A magnificent new hotel has bloomed amid the vast sea of sands in
Xiangshawan Desert, Inner Mongolia, 800 kilometers west to Beijing.
Named the “Desert Lotus Hotel”, the structure consist of repeating
triangular white tent tops, rotated 45 degrees and connected together in
a circular formation like a lotus. Free of tiles and bricks for
construction, the resort is built with low carbon environment friendly
materials to utilize solar, water and wind energy in the desert,
reducing environmental pollution and strengthening ecology protection.
Load bearing walls give the structure the bulk of its structural
integrity, while a dazzling array of repeating triangular panels provide
shade and protection from the harsh elements.
Due to the
restriction by its special geographic condition, PLaT Architects
invented a new structural system that fix in fluid sands using only
steel panels without the help of concrete or water. The panels and the
supporting skeleton structures are pre-fabricated, and make the base of
the building a large container for sands. Thus, the steel panel
structure can function as a boat floating on desert that carries the
building. The sands in and out of the structure exert same forces to
each other, and thus it is flexibly stabilized.
The hotel is part of a new resort built amid a vast sea of sand dunes,
increasingly popular with Chinese tourists. The resort hosts
Mongolian-themed performances, camel rides, desert surfing, and more.
source : Amusing Planet
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