Shenzhen Berkeley Hotel

Berkeley hotel is a business hotel in downtown Shenzhen. GS Design makes use of the "urban vacation" concept, combining vacation and business through the usage of shapes, material, and lighting, presenting an elegantly casual, fun and tasteful style.



The hotel lobby divides into a series of independent yet continuous arch caves that serve both as resting areas and windows that look out to urban views. The windows form a quiet arcade, while people's activities in the frame form a lively animation.



Modern business hotels are usually simplistic and efficiently done. With Berkeley, GS Design tries to use simple material to bring back a primal feeling, arch doorways to soften the light and connect the walls and ground texture, wrapping up with exotic decoration and ambient lighting to achieve a relaxing spatial status.



In terms of spatial forms and lighting, GS pays attention to spatial measure and interactivity. With different arrangements and combinations of space, the designer explores with art piece display, spatial connection, or simple decoration, to guide people's discovery and interaction in the changes of function.



According to different line of sight as people sit or stand, the designer arranged lights of different height in different areas, to ensure that instead of restricting residents' movement and experience, the interior space continuously respond to residents' different positions and line of sight. This way the lobby possesses a cafe or bar like languor, instead of the usual uptight formality.



Using simplistic contemporary design language, GS Design fits in extensive exotic and primal elements to refine an untamed inner vitality, to break the monotonous bore in standardized business hotels. In the modern intense urban pace, the designer realized a relaxing alternative to business hotel, giving people an option to slow down.