Prize: Winner

Chill Pill

Design Brief

From the competition organizer:

The unique setting of Macau, the City of Casinos, has provided an abundance of resources and opportunities. However, can Macau continue to be a liveable city for locals with such deficit and lack in social spaces?

The competition challenges designers to bring back these spaces that once belonged to the locals, to create new social spaces and recover the lost connection between the city and its people.

We seek proposals and designs of an alternative form of social and entertainment architecture that diverges from the existing gambling culture.

MACAU FUN PALACE

Organizer: mOOO team

Competition Website:

https://moooarch.com/competitions/macau-morphosis/

Design Synopsis

Macau Cloud Pavilion

A scaffolded cloud floating at the edge of Macau City Center, forming a giant water fun palace alongside with Macau tower on the shoreline.

The Cloud - A vast amount of capsule hot springs and bath houses huddle together forming a massive steam cloud that create foggy and cloudy atmosphere on the top of the pavilion. Giant circular sky pool encircles the hot springs and bath houses provide a fun swimming experience in the cloud. The harvested water from the sky pool overflows from it, eventually creates raindrop and waterfall to the sea bath underneath.

The Connectors - Seeking the fun of travelling in between the cloud and the sea, visitors have to climb up the giant staircase to reach the cloud and slide down from waterslide to the sea bath. The hot springs, stairs and waterslide facilities plug into the scaffold structure which allow them to be flexibly changed their forms to adapt any occasion.

The Sea Bath - Enclosing by the circular timber walking deck, the sea bath sits at the bottom attach to the shoreline and the sea. The sea bath catches the rain falling from the cloud, creates an experience of swimming under the rainy cloud. Macau cloud pavilion seeks to engage a sense of playfulness that is deeply informed by playing in water, instigating close encounters between play and social interaction, between fun and flexibility.

Fun is in the water; fun is in the air.

Inspiration

The scheme aims to transform Macau new reclamation shoreline and intervene more entertaining public activities by creating a water fun palace.

The design was inspired by the natural cycle of water and intended to create a self-sustaining micro climate. The overall design created a rainy scenery by inserting all the fun element and water system under an artificial rainy cloud floating on the skyline of Macau.