Canyon-Inspired Interiors Shape Dubai’s MYATA Platinum

In Dubai’s City Walk district, MYATA Platinum has reimagined the hospitality experience with a hookah lounge, restaurant, and bar that immerses visitors in a canyon-like landscape.

Conceived as a retreat from the pace of the surrounding business centre, the venue’s design leads guests from the glass metropolis outside into a dark, enveloping interior that promotes calm and introspection.

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The design draws inspiration from sand canyons, formations shaped over centuries by wind and water. Using a contemporary approach, the project team recreated these flowing, amorphous forms through 3D printing, constructing whimsical fluted structures that define the space. These printed canyons form both the exterior terrace, sheltered from the city, and the interiors, where they divide the lounge into intimate chamber-like zones.

The entrance sequence sets the tone. Based on the principle of a funnel, the canyon narrows to draw guests from the street into the lounge. The interior is deliberately hidden from the façade, and visitors arrive in the main hall only after passing through a series of dark, cave-like passages that open to a dramatic lounge space.

The ground floor comprises open seating, two VIP areas, a hookah bar, and a cocktail bar. To balance the natural forms, minimalist lightboxes hover overhead, washing the space in coloured light. The first floor continues the canyon motif with mirrored walls that create a sense of infinity, a glowing bar, and additional private zones.

The project required 27 distinct canyon structures, fabricated on 150 3D printers, 85 per cent of which are unique. Their scale and execution secured a Guinness World Record as the largest 3D-printed structure by volume.

Lighting played a crucial role in shaping the atmosphere. Designed by YARKO, the scheme uses soft amber light to emulate sunset and highlight the intricate surfaces, while subtle art effects animate clouds of hookah smoke and create halo-like glows.

Through its innovative use of 3D printing and lighting, MYATA Platinum offers visitors more than hospitality. It creates an environment that encourages a shift from the external world to a deeper sense of personal focus and connection

Images by Nikita Kovalev via ArchDaily