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Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass by Xin Yuan is a winner of the 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.

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Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass by Xin Yuan Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2022

Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass

The structure cantilevers 36m over the 613m deep sinkhole. The top of the sinkhole is extremely narrow which can only accommodate a small passageway. Skyboat is proposed to span over the passageway and cantilever out to each side of the mountain ridge. Similar to the tumbler toys, it is proposed to lower the structure centre of gravity and utilize the minimum area (10metres by 30metres), in which way, the self-balance of the structure is therefore achieved.

Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass by Xin Yuan Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2022
Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2022 Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass
Skyboat designed by Xin Yuan
Skyboat - Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
Xin Yuan's Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass
Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2022 Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass
Skyboat designed by Xin Yuan
Skyboat - Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner
Xin Yuan's Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass

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Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass

Skyboat is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Skyboat is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Skyboat creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.


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Xin Yuan

Professor Xin Yuan is a structural engineers working on extend the boundary of structures. He founded XinY in 2001, it consists of a main office in Shanghai, with office in London. He founded and administrate 'China Structure Forum' ( www.okok.org) for over 20 years, today with about 360,000 members and over 1,000,000 posts.

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XinY structural consultants

XinY structural consultants

XinY is a team of structural engineersworking on Extend boundary of structures. Founded in 2001, it consists of a main office in Shanghai, with office in London. They founded and administrate 'China Structure Forum' ( www.okok.org) for over 20 years, today with about 360,000 members and over 1,000,000 posts.


Skyboat Cafe and WalkOn Glass by Xin Yuan Golden Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner 2022

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