Heavenly Lake

Reception center

The site is located by a lakeside park surrounded by forest in Chupei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. The building’s front faces the lake, thereby seeming to extend into nature and transport the greenery into the room through its glass panels. In the plan, the rooms seem randomly scattered. However, all of the rooms are positioned around a huge cube suspended from the ceiling in the lobby. As the rectangular cube extends along the ceiling and transforms into a pyramid, it becomes a skylight and introduces direct sunlight into the space. In the spacious lobby, spherical lamps are scattered on the floor to create an abstract cosmic atmosphere.