This goes on our bucket list, a CoolStay this Lotus hotel in the middle of the desert in Inner Mongolia. Located in the mystical Xiang Sha Wan, the “Sand Bay” of the Gobi Desert.
Beijing-based PLaT Architects designed the concrete-less resort to work like a ship floating in deserted. The creatives at PLaT had to invent a new structural system that is fixed in the sands by panels and a prefabricated steel support skeleton. 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.