I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel by Chen Huacai and Xu Hezhan

I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel by Chen Huacai and Xu Hezhan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award di Ferru in Disignu d'Interiori Competition Category.

FerruInteriori· 2021

I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel

by Chen Huacai and Xu Hezhan

Client: Eterno Design

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Interiori Category

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The Design

About I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel

Testu di u Libru: I O Hotel hè una cuncezzione interiore d'hotel situata in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, Cina. L'hotel occupa l'ultimu pianu d'un edifiziu cummerciale in u centru cità è offre una vista panoramica nantu à u paisaghju di fora. In l'entrata, a struttura originale di u tettu obliquu hè stata mantenuta, è un soffittu di vetru hè statu aghjuntu per aumentà a luce naturale. Fogli d'alluminiu perforati addolciscenu a luce è creanu un ghjocu trà luce è ombra. L'internu cuprenu 2500 metri quadrati è cunteni 36 camere per l'ospiti. A palette di materiali include terrazzu, petra ultrasottile, legnu è coghju.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. I O Hotel Funzione Primaria: Cuncezzione Interiore d'Hotel hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Situated on the top floor of a commercial building in the downtown area, the hotel offers a panoramic view of the outdoor landscape and a tranquil environment. In the lobby, the designers retained the original oblique interior roof structure, and added glass ceiling to enhance natural daylighting, and at the same time utilized perforated aluminum sheets to soften the light and produce interplay of light and shadows.
Dimensions & Packaging: The area of project is 2500 square meter.
Tags: Jupiter I, Zhangjiang, shadows, hotel, sloped roof structure, the Solar System
Production Technology: The interior is characterized by a diversified material palette consisting of terrazzo, deep-colored ultrathin stone materials, timber, and leather coverings, etc., which fuses softness and solidness and enriches textures of the space.
Main materials: perforated aluminum sheet, ultrathin stone materials, terrazzo, wooden veneer, back-painted glass, mosaic tile, stainless steel, wooden flooring, paint
Design Challenge: The staircases strengthen the three-dimensional visual impression of the space, and make the experience of going up and down more interesting.
It was very challenging to approach the rooms with a sloped roof structure. The design team turned an oblique angle between the interior roof and the wall into 90 degree, and added a skylight to introduce daylight. In this way, the re-imagined ceiling was endowed with both a simplistic form and rich details, and was made a highlight in the space.
Research: Zhanjiang, where the project is located, is a city in the southern part of China mainland, which boasts unparalleled coastline and spectacular view of tides.
By skillfully making use of light and shadows, structures and colors, the design team injected imagination into spatial scenes, which will attract the guests to experience and explore the unknown.
Inspiration: The hotel is named after IO (Jupiter I), which is the innermost of the fourGalilean moonsof the planetJupiter. IO is the most geologically active object in the Solar System.
The moon of IO is full of unknowns, changes and uncertainties. Those properties coincide with the designers' initial conception of the hotel. They refused to restrict the interior design to a certain style, but combined contrasting yet diverse design elements to bring more possibilities to urban hotels.
Project Duration: Completion time: October 2019
Location: Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
Operation Flow: Occupying a total area of 2500 sqm, the hotel has 36 distinctive guest rooms. Each guest room is an independent unit, and also an integral part of a whole system that provides diverse experiences, just like numerous rotating objects constitute the Solar System. Erecting opposite the Sheraton not far away, I O HOTEL embraces the coastline in its unique way.
Team Members: Chief designers: Chen Huacai, Xu Hezhan
Design team: Jiang Honglan, Xu Meijie, Huang Jian, Lu Yunfeng
Image Credits: Photography: ETERNO /MGS