PVB interlayer film The Mist Hot Spring Hotel

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Colors emerging from the mist The Mist Hot Spring Hotel, Xuchang, Henan, China The wonders of natural hot spring steam coupled with softly colored architectural glass create a mystical experience for guests at The Mist Hot Spring Resort in Xuchang, located 100 km from Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan province. Stunning in its simplicity, the mesmerizing play between steam and Vanceva® color interlayers put The Mist Hot Spring Resort on the list of honorable mentions in the 2022 Vanceva® World of Color Awards™. The long, cold winter months in Xuchang can be gloomy; thus, the use of glass became the most important material in this building’s design. It attracts tourists and provides a unique experience for guests. Department of Architecture, a leading design firm in Thailand, created a design that would bring out the natural beauty of the region. The design team was led by Amata Luphaiboon and Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum, whose inspiration for the design came from early filmmaking colorization techniques. Film frames were hand-tinted in layers frame by frame and projected through light. The film was then projected through the air and filtered, intermixed, and superimposed with colors into moving visuals. The idea of dyeing the space with colorized light onto a monotone surface was adopted into architectural language. The hotel’s gray granite facade is doubled with a three-dimensional lattice structure inspired by Chinese bamboo scaffolding. The lattice is filled with varying stacks of Vanceva color interlayers of Coral Rose, Ruby Red, Aquamarine, Sapphire, and Marine Blue Green to produce a variety of blue and magenta tones.