Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri by Chris Chen

Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri by Chris Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze in Igishushanyo cy'Imbere y'Inyubako Competition Category.

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Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri

by Chris Chen

Client: Chris Chen

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze Winner in Imbere y'Inyubako Category

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The Design

About Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri

Yamadera ni icyumba cy'ubukerarugendo cya hoteri kiherereye i Jiaoxi, muri Taiwan, gifite izina ryahawe rishingiye ku rusengero rw'umusozi ruri i Yamagata, mu Buyapani. Icyo cyumba gifite ubuso bwa metero kare 30, kandi gikagabanywamo ibice bitatu binyuze mu bice by'imikorere y'imisego iri hejuru: aho winjirira, ahantu ho kuruhukira n'ahantu ho koga. Ibikoresho bifite ibara rimwe hamwe n'amabara make agaragaza umwuka utuje kandi wugarijwe. Ubutaka bwa diatome (diatomaceous earth) buravangwa mu bwoya bw'urukuta ruri mu gice cyo kuryama kugira ngo bugenzure ubushuhe bukikije igitebo cy'amazi ashyushye asohoka mu butaka (hot spring tub). Irangi ry'amabuye ridahita ryinjizwamo amazi (water-resistant mineral paint) ni ryo rikoreshwa mu gice cyo koga. Igishushanyo mbonera cyunganitse kigaragaza uburyo bwo gukoresha neza ubuso buto bw'icyo cyumba.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze

Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Buronze, ishimwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo by'indashyikirwa birangwa no guhanga, ubwenge n'ubushishozi. Abegukanye Buronze ni ibihangano bifite ubuhanga bwinshi kandi bihanga cyane, bishimangira uburambe, ubwenge n'ubushobozi bw'ababihanze. Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri biteganyijwe ko izaba ikintu cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifite ubunyamwuga n'udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Buronze gikoresha uburyo bwiza mu buhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga kandi kirarenze mu gutaha ku tuntu duto. Yamadera Icyumba cy'Ubukerarugendo cya Hoteri ishimisha ibyo dukeneye, ikora ku byifuzo byacu, itwara amarangamutima yacu kandi ikurura amatsiko yacu.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Yamadera Suite of Hotel Yamagata Kaku is aiming to transport guest remotely by creating a nature-like enclosing environment and monotone materials.

Layers of Arch elements neatly divided suite into three sections:
Foyer/Resting/Bathing, based on the nature of the suite program.

The compact spatial organization also solves the size limitation of the space.
Low chromatic tone creates a sense of solitude and yet archly surrounding provides embraced intimacy, fulfill the need of five senses.
Dimensions & Packaging: Suite Area: 30 sqm
Tags: Hotel, Yamadera, Taiwan
Production Technology: Wall coating materials are selected to create unique sense of nature. In sleeping area, diatomaceous earth are mixed into wall coating, adjust the humidity of room with hot spring tub. In Bathing area, water-proof mineral paints are employed to give out caving earthy tone with water proofing function
Design Challenge: With the size limitation of the room (30 sqm.), how to create an isolate hot spring area and yet guest can also feel like being in wide open nature. A room can purify the mind physically and psychologically.
Research: The coherency to interpreted Japanese historical and geographic background into design details are the primary task of designing this suite. For example, we embed the abstract of pilgrimage path (In order to reach to the Mountain Temple in Yamagata Japan, people need to climb up 1015 steps along the mountain path) on the headboard, by flipping through the folding fabric steps on headboard, guest virtually climb up to their mountain temple in heart. We use shimmering thread to embroider the image of Mountain Temple at the end of path, so it will be only visible when you are up and closed to the top. Shimmering embroidery hints the temple never dimmed.
Inspiration: Yamadera meaning Mountain Temple in Japanese. As the heart of Hotel Yamagata Kaku Jiaoxi Taiwan, the exclusive Yamadera suite was named after the symbolic Mountain Temple in Yamagata Japan to deliver the main philosophy of the hotel(sister hotel of Yamagata Prefecture).

“A threshold access to inner world
Explore the deepest beauty of your mind
Cave within cave
Layer after layer
Finding the light of your life”
Project Duration: The project started in April 2017 and finished in Feb 2019 in Jiaoxi, Taiwan
Operation Flow: Cave-like resting/sleeping area forms an enclosed space, an isolated space to enjoy solitude. A small concave space inter-mediating the foyer and bedding area is an abstract shrine to paint a sacred tone to space
Team Members: Designer: Chris Chen
Client: Ben Liao
Image Credits: Photographer: Andrew Kan