Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Park Zoo Hotel
by Xiang Li
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: X+Living
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About Park Zoo Hotel
This is no doubt a hotel based on the animal theme. However, designers didn’t simply create a series of adorable and graceful animal-shaped installations in order to attract great attention in the intensely competitive market. Infusing the space with the deep love for animals, designers transformed the hotel into an art exhibition, where customers are able to observe and feel the real situation facing the endangered animals in the present moment.
This distinguished interior by Li Xiang exemplifies the contemporary tendency within hospitality design to dissolve boundaries between functional commercial space and immersive artistic environment, positioning the viewer within a carefully orchestrated sensory experience that elevates the quotidian act of gathering into an encounter with wonder and visual delight. The designer demonstrates remarkable compositional intelligence in balancing the inherent sobriety of minimalist architectural language with exuberant sculptural interventions that activate the space with narrative possibility and chromatic vivacity. The monumental capsule installation occupying the right partition functions simultaneously as decorative element and conceptual statement, its pharmaceutical forms rendered in confectionery colors perhaps suggesting the healing and restorative function of hospitality itself. The zoomorphic sculptures distributed throughout the space introduce an element of gentle surrealism, their presence transforming the environment into a kind of urban sanctuary where the natural world intrudes beneficently upon the metropolitan experience. Technical accomplishment manifests in the sophisticated handling of material transitions, where smoked glass meets polished concrete, where matte sculptural surfaces dialogue with glossy capsule forms, and where warm upholstery tones provide tactile counterpoint to cool architectural planes. The lighting design creates intimate atmospheric zones within the larger spatial volume, suggesting the designer's sensitivity to the psychological dimensions of hospitality programming. One might consider how this synthesis of art and function reflects broader contemporary desires for spaces that nourish imagination alongside physical comfort.
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- Unique Properties
- Through the integration of structure, streamline, color and graphics to complete the elegant temperament of space, using the minimalist patterns of abstract nature to complete the background vision, the quiet and minimalist background of the space subject more arouses the same feeling of consumers visiting the art gallery. All of these techniques eventually point to a kind of goodwill gesture, which makes a good time to stop and become a more valuable memory.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The floor area of the project is 18000 sqm.
- Tags
- hotel, art installations, animal, Li Xiang
- Production Technology
- Designers choose 3D printing technology to restore real animal models, a different animal kingdom has been built for consumers. The use of human society for the violation of animal rights and interests of the elements, such as biopharmaceuticals, Cat Shit coffee, to reflect the real relationship between human and animals, thus triggering people's thinking and exploration of animal protection.
- Design Challenge
- It is difficult to do animals welfare projects in commercial hotels. Designers have considered the topic of animal protection carefully. They need to consider whether consumers are willing to accept such information, whether they can make profits for hotels.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in December 2018 in Hangzhou, China.
- Operation Flow
- Through shocking animal models, it arouses consumers' thinking about life and attention to animal protection. Human beings influence the survival of animals. The status quo of animals reflects the human society at the same time. Through the design of hotels, consumers can reflect on their own behavior.
- Research
- Animals do not mean an eye-catching tool to replace the contours and shapes of certain aesthetic symbols in response to market demand. Many of the scenarios in this hotel design are that people do not have enough perspective to see the world. This desire to express is precisely what designers want to arouse the feeling of gentleness and waiting for life.
- Inspiration
- The number of endangered animals is increasing, designers hope that through a call for love and attention, this hotel will not only be an innovative theme hotel, but also have a public interest.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Shao Feng, Park Zoo Hotel, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Shao Feng, Park Zoo Hotel, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Shao Feng, Park Zoo Hotel, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Shao Feng, Park Zoo Hotel, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Shao Feng, Park Zoo Hotel, 2018. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Shao Feng, 2018.
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