SNOOZE: A Sleep Building Assembled from Louvered Grids, Colored Spheres and Tessellated Pods

Most buildings are designed for the hours we are awake. SNOOZE starts from the opposite premise: a tired mind is a building problem. Its authors argue that a world chasing constant stimulation leaves the mind without peace, and they answer with architecture whose main job is to let people stop, rest and come back sharper.

SNOOZE was designed by Supriya sinha, Reesha Haya, Mukesh Jangid and Devashish Solanki, with Andorra listed as its location. The project won the People's Choice Award at Cocoon. In the team's words, the aim is an environment that "enhances the user's inner mental peace and health so that he can focus much better, concentrate much better and eventually work and produce much better." That is a productivity argument for rest. What makes the project worth a close look is how literally the building turns that argument into separate, stackable kinds of quiet.

A Louvered Grid Split by a Column of Colored Spheres

The main block reads as a slender frame filled with boxes. Each bay holds a solid panel, a louvered screen, a porthole opening or a recessed balcony with planting, so the facade looks like a filing system for sleep: every unit is visible as a unit. The louvers do the quiet work of filtering the view, so occupants can look out while the street gets only a muted pattern of slats.

The frame then breaks. Two towers pull apart and the gap fills with a vertical cluster of translucent spheres in magenta, blue, amber, green and violet. Against the disciplined grey grid, the spheres are the building's one loud gesture, and they act as a beacon from the street. The low-angle rendering, with a red-leaved tree and a cyclist in the setting sun, frames the contrast clearly: rigid boxes for rest, playful bubbles for everything else.

A Marble Corridor Threaded Between Rounded Rooms

Inside, the most convincing image is the plainest. A pale marble corridor runs straight between rounded white volumes, each entered through a dark red door. The rooms read as soft-cornered objects set into a lighter frame instead of rooms cut out of a slab, and the gaps between them open onto lawn and palms. A slatted screen closes the far end, and a warm board ceiling lowers the scale. The corridor feels less like a hotel hallway and more like a garden path with bedrooms along it, which is exactly the shift in mood a sleep building needs.

Ribbed Teal Pods Stepping Down the Side Wall

The second unit type changes the building's language entirely. Teal pods with ribbed shells and rounded edges interlock in a stepped stack, each pod fitting into the next like a tile in a repeating pattern. Seen from the street, they form a sculptural ladder beside the boxy frame, and green lattice columns at the base add a third, more organic register. The building now holds several kinds of rest at once, from the louvered boxes to the tessellated pods, and the facade makes those differences legible.

Junwoong Seog, who judged the competition, praised this attention to variety and pattern while also naming the project's main gap. The team's starting point drew on Eastern thought, and his comment asks whether that idea survives into the final form:

I think it is unique and impressive to approach the subject with oriental thought. And I think that planning different types of units and using tessellation is a very meticulous design considering the user.
I am very sorry that the approach that started with Eastern thought seems to have not been well expressed in the result. I hope you will try to develop after this competition.
Good luck.Junwoong Seog, Director & Chief designer, BY SEOG BE SEOG, South Korea

A Shared Stair Carved Through the Stacked Pods

Between the pods, a concrete stair climbs through a slot in the stack. One figure walks up while another sits on a landing next to a potted plant, and that small detail matters: the stair works as a place to pause as well as a way through. Concrete slabs overhead and ribbed teal walls on both sides make it feel like a narrow street running up through a village of sleeping cells. It is the project's most intimate shared space, and it hints at a social life alongside the privacy of the units.

Why This Project Matters

SNOOZE treats rest as a program with its own architecture rather than something left over in a building made for work. Breaking sleep into distinct unit types, framed boxes and tessellated pods, means users can choose how much enclosure and privacy they need. The marble corridor and the shared stair show that the spaces between rooms can carry as much calm as the rooms themselves.

The project is also an honest lesson in the distance between concept and form. As the jury noted, the meticulous unit planning lands more strongly than the philosophical idea that launched it. That tension is useful to study: a strong idea about well-being still has to be built into proportion, material and sequence. SNOOZE gets much of the way there, and its People's Choice recognition at Cocoon suggests many viewers found the bubbles, pods and garden corridors worth wanting.

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Project team

Designers: Supriya sinha, Reesha Haya, Mukesh Jangid, Devashish Solanki

Competition and award

People's Choice Award, Cocoon

Jury

Junwoong Seog, Director & Chief designer, BY SEOG BE SEOG, South Korea

Location

Andorra

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