The Elegant Seaside Hotel in Pattaya offers a unique blend of natural beauty and historical narrative. Nestled by the Gulf of Thailand, this development incorporates a scenic mangrove forest into its architectural form, representing the land's metamorphosis and the natural phenomena that have shaped it.
The Bayphere exemplifies this concept through landscape design, which features a ground-floor garden, a rooftop pool, and an elevated boardwalk that connects to the beach. This layout emphasizes both the area's spectacular aesthetics and its environmental significance.
The hotel's design is inspired by indigenous customs that employ bamboo and mangrove sticks to form sediment layers, and it replicates the natural reclamation process. The rooftop pool offers panoramic sea views, while the ground-floor lobby has an open-air design with a waterfall, a reflecting pond, and a dynamic feature wall. Flowing patterns on the ground floor mimic the movement of the sea, while elements such as cascading water and a pop-up jacuzzi depict the beach.
Overall, the design narrates the site's ecological evolution and reclamation, creating a harmonious blend of architecture, landscape, and history.
