2024 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Renovation of Building 8 of Nanyuan Hotel

Entrant Company

Xiaoshu Shen, Xiaogang You, Qin Zhang, Xia Rong, Jiao Ling

Category

Interior Design - Hotels & Resorts

Client's Name

Suzhou Zhouyue Hotel Co., Ltd

Country / Region

China

Drawing inspiration from Suzhou Gardens, this interior renovation project employs the design techniques of scenery concealing/framing/borrowing, creating a space that blends Western modern design language and Eastern aesthetics.

The entrance, utilizing the “concealing” technique, adopts a partition wall to subtly veils the interior of the hotel, which can spark guests’ curiosity and desire to explore. The wall with a painting of a bridge over running water features a Chinese traditional plum blossom-shaped window to “frame” the external garden landscape, whereby natural scenery and human-made art complement and enhance each other. The extensive use of floor-to-ceiling windows in the hall, as an application of the “borrowing” technique, effortlessly fuses the interior decor with the nature outside, making guests feel as if strolling through a garden.

Neatly arranged square lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling of the entrance add a modern touch, while the embedded light sources applied to the corridors not only guide the flow of movement, but also create a contrast of light and shadow to give a strong sense of depth.

Furthermore, the guest rooms take a calm neutral gray as the main color, and use gentle wooden materials, leading to a quaint, peaceful atmosphere. Its combination with modern art decorations and frosted glass screens integrates modernity into traditional aesthetics, well catering to modern people’s aesthetic preferences.

Credits

Chief Designer
Xiaoshu Shen
Main Project Design
Xiaogang You
Main Project Design
Qin Zhang
Main Project Design/Associate Professor
Xia Rong
Main Project Design
Jiao Ling
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