Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: PLD/ Paul Liu Design Consultants
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 24,771
- Verification code B6FE4EB7C9 · Verify this award
About Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design
Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel is a hospitality interior design project located in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, China. The hotel contains 323 guestrooms and suites with skyline views and open-plan bathrooms, dining outlets and more than 4000 square metres of meeting and banquet space. The interior refers to the position of the city as a port on the Yangtze River, so water is a central element. Colours and forms taken from Chinese landscape painting guide the theme. Durable and non-toxic materials were selected, and the floor plan was reorganised to use the space efficiently.
The Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel Hospitality Interior Design by Bo Liu exemplifies the refined synthesis of contemporary international hospitality aesthetics with subtle cultural resonances that distinguish the most accomplished work in twenty-first century interior architecture. The designer appears to engage with longstanding traditions of creating threshold experiences that transition visitors from exterior quotidian reality into interior realms of contemplation and elevated experience, a concern traceable through centuries of sacred and ceremonial architecture now translated into the secular luxury context. The undulating ribbon installation overhead demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how kinetic-suggesting forms can energize static spaces, evoking flowing water, unfurling silk, or calligraphic gesture while maintaining material presence through its carefully striated surface treatment. The composition's technical achievement lies in its orchestration of scale relationships, balancing the monumentality of the double-height volume against intimate furniture groupings and human-scaled sculptural elements that prevent the space from overwhelming its inhabitants. The backlit mountain range panel introduces landscape reference within the architectural envelope, suggesting the traditional appreciation for natural forms as spiritual touchstones while employing thoroughly contemporary backlit panel technology. The translucent screens with their scattered leaf motifs contribute botanical delicacy that softens the geometric rigor of the metal partition systems, creating visual counterpoint between organic and geometric vocabularies. One might observe how the designer employs reflection as compositional strategy, with the polished floor effectively doubling the spatial complexity and creating dialogue between actual and mirrored forms that invites extended contemplation. Viewers are encouraged to consider how such environments shape experience and expectation, transforming arrival into ceremony and passage into journey.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Set in the economic and cultural centre, Zhangjiagang Marriott Hotel is the city’s newest iconic landmark hotel,featuring 323 spacious layout guestrooms and suites with skyline views and open-plan bathrooms. For F & B facilities, Dining is a delightful discovery of outstanding cuisines with Chinese, Japanese and seafood buffet within the stylish environment.For meeting and banquet areas with more than 4000 sqm, it is considered as the largest events and banquet spaces among high-end competitors.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Hotel covers a landscape area of 55000sqm including Hotel Guestrooms 29000sqm, Food & Beverage Outlets 6000sqm, Ballrooms & Meeting Facilities 12000sqm, Recreational Amenities 3000sqm )
- Tags
- Hoipitality Interior Design, Marriott Hotel, Business Conference Centre, Cultural,Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu
- Production Technology
- The designers looked for the longevity of design, considering the lifespan of the materials used in the design and focus more on quality over quantity.
including higher standard of finish, detailing and quality in the design. The designers are committed to finding ways to balance aesthetics and functionality with choices that reduces the environmental impact, including choosing eco-friendly, non-toxic and chemical-free materials and products. - Design Challenge
- With nearly 50000 sqm design area, the hotel design process is very sophisticated and functional involving planning, schematic design, developed design and construction documentations stages. Due to the diversity of functions within a hotel building, a large number of specialists like architects, structural engineers, lighting, signage, AV consultants, contractors, suppliers were involved and required to coordinate with during each critical design stage. The design needs to meet the requirement of Marriott’s international brand strategy while take the owner’s operational, budget, time schedule requirements and aesthetic issues into consideration with very tight time schedule-one and half year for the whole project from scratch design to construction completion and opening for operation.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Oct 2017 and finished in April 2019 in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu,China
- Operation Flow
- By replanning the design of the existing building, the hotel became more energy intelligent. By redesigning the floor plan configuration, the designers maximize the efficient use of the hotel space to meet the operation needs. Special attention was paid to a hotel’s spatial relationships to ensuring that hotel spaces were used efficiently.The perception theory was applied to enhance the humanization level of the hotel and get the customers’ affirmation.
- Research
- The brief is to design a new contemporary Marriott-branded hotel that can articulate Marriott’s international brand strategy, philosophy and globally consistent image while take the owner’s operational, budget, time schedule requirements and aesthetic issues into consideration.
- Inspiration
- As one of the port city along the Yangtze River, the Zhangjiagang hotel design details inspired from its unique geographical location. Water was a central element within the whole design. The designers used Oriental Aesthetic Chinese Shanshui Painting as a nursery of ideas in style. The designers took the color and shapes from the Mountains and Water as the cultural theme inspiration and used modern materials, texture and finishes to perfectly present a pleasurable experience to guests.
- Image Credits
- PLD/ Paul Liu Design Consultants
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