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This is the hybrid hotel which has capsule beds and guest rooms for various accommodation styles in Tokyo. You can stay here not just for business trips but sightseeing and foreign tourists visiting Japan too. All guest rooms have big window to feel opened and look out over the town. Enjoy relaxing, cooking, eating, daydreaming at common spaces of kitchen and rooftop and so on.
A new concept hotel concept that supports guests' days for various purposes. It is a hotel with 161 guest rooms and a large communal bath near Kanazawa Station, a shared club lounge for business people, and hands-on content for girls' trips. This is a "designed stay" hotel with a place to relax at the end of the day on your trip. There are three main purposes. The first is the shift from quantity to quality. The second is the fusion of a clear target structure and local culture. The third is a reasonable hotel business that solves deformed places by design.
In order to improve the livability, the space was roughly divided into three spaces: a bedroom, a living room, and a semi-outdoor open air bath. The semi-outdoor space is a luxurious and relaxing space where you can enjoy the natural hot springs that spring from the premises while feeling the light, wind, water, and the changes of the four seasons. The space is a timeless space that collects the best of high-quality natural materials and craft techniques by actively using traditional Japanese crafts, omitting unnecessary decorations.
The Flow Kamakura is a vacation rental style hotel located in Kamakura, Japan, close to temples, shrines and the beach. The three-story wooden building has a total floor area of 160 square meters. Plastering, wood, antique furniture and modern tiles are combined to reflect the local history and the modern surf lifestyle. Windows, louvers and top lights bring in light and scenery while screening off the surrounding residential area. The rooftop terrace offers views of the ocean, the mountains and Mount Fuji. The hotel operates without a reception desk.
Dajing Homestay is a hotel built in Dajing Village, Shaoguan. The buildings face the streams and the old camphor trees, and also face the provincial highway, which makes the homestay visible and easy to reach. The buildings are arranged as an enclosed courtyard, following the basic structure of the village. Concrete, wood-like aluminum, glass and brick are used, so the new construction blends with the old village. The project covers 1914.57 square meters. The design aims to offer visitors a calm place among the mountains and forests.
Maestoso is a hotel created through the renovation of an existing building from the 1970s. The design offers a sustainable approach to updating old hotel buildings that need a new character and new facilities. The main element is the facade structure, which supports the added balconies and blends the appearance of the building with the surrounding landscape. The facade was parametrically modeled and made from wooden beams shaped by CNC milling. Inside, the walls were brushed to reveal the rough concrete structure, and furnishing of wood and metal adds warmth.
Beijing Jingyin Nanshan is a resort hotel interior located in a rural area near Beijing. The hotel covers 1600 square meters and serves families, group events, parties, weddings and photo shoots. Private hot spring baths and a swimming pool bring water into the design. The courtyard layout is inspired by diamond cutting. White minimal volumes recall the traditional sloping roofs of local villages. Metal wave plates reflect the surroundings and form layered images. Concrete roofs, red brick, stone and wood from the original site remain visible.
Hamacho is a hotel located in Nihonbashi Hamacho, Tokyo, Japan. The building has 15 floors and one basement level, and the structure is reinforced concrete. The hotel occupies the front half of the building, while apartments are placed at the back. There are 170 guest rooms in total. The ground floor holds a restaurant and a shop that are open to the public. Board-formed concrete and plaster express local craftsmanship. Planting is stacked across the facade to form a vertical landscape and to reduce energy use. Lightweight artificial soil limits the load and controls root growth.
Pearl River is a Cantonese restaurant interior of 495 square meters, located within a hotel in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The design avoids both the dim atmosphere and the excessively extravagant style often seen in traditional Cantonese dining rooms. Spatial borders divide the plan into zones, and each zone holds seating of a different style to suit various customer groups. A large glass wall brings natural light onto the circular seats and frames the greenery outside. Marble and carved wood lines add depth. A tea area serves guests who wish only to drink tea.
Thinking about the contemporary design language with the logic of oriental aesthetics is a more modern, fashionable, artistic, poetic and modern Oriental Language. It is this invisible charm that makes people enter the space and feel that the entrance of the space is the starting point of the whole scene, showing charming changes.
Luxeh is a hotel interior located in the West Lake scenic area of Hangzhou, China. The design preserves the original architecture and the building elevation, as required for the protected site. Interior space and outdoor space are treated as two separate systems, so modern resort and commercial functions are placed within a building of historic style. Decayed wooden parts of the elevation are treated with a baking method used since the Song dynasty, which carbonizes the surface and keeps the material intact.
The book “In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki and research about traveller’s behaviors in Kyoto formed foundation of this project. Tanizaki stated that Japanese blessed shadows over the light throughout history which lead to Japanese traditional architecture such as intertwining exterior and interior. The research showed travellers in Kyoto are highly interested in its culture and history, therefore the team set “Unwind and Explore” as a concept and created a hotel where the guests are encouraged to learn, experience and relax.