Silver Architectural Lighting · 2023
Shangri-la Shougang Park Hotel Lighting
by Haiyan Zhu
- A' Design Award 2023 Silver Winner in Architectural Lighting
- Awarded April 15, 2023
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About Shangri-la Shougang Park Hotel Lighting
Shangri-la Shougang Park is a lighting design for a hotel in Beijing. The hotel stands at the core of Shougang Park, on the site of a former power generation plant that once supplied energy for steel production. The complex covers 63,600 square meters and holds 283 guest rooms. LED light sources are used across all indoor and outdoor spaces, and the lighting scenes change with the time of day. Warm color temperature light creates a comfortable environment and relates the hotel to the surrounding buildings of the park at night.
This distinguished example of architectural lighting design represents a compelling synthesis of industrial heritage preservation and contemporary hospitality aesthetics, demonstrating how thoughtful illumination can mediate between historical industrial character and present-day programmatic requirements. The work appears to engage with the broader discourse surrounding adaptive reuse architecture, a practice that has gained considerable momentum as societies seek sustainable approaches to urban development that honor existing built fabric while accommodating new functions. The lighting strategy reveals sophisticated understanding of how luminosity creates hierarchy, establishes mood, and communicates brand identity—the warm amber tones emanating from interior spaces and signage elements suggest welcome and refuge, while the cooler atmospheric rendering of the preserved industrial structure celebrates the raw beauty of steel construction as both historical artifact and contemporary spatial experience. One observes particular accomplishment in the treatment of the monumental curtain wall, where the lighting designer has chosen to bathe the interior structural elements in cool illumination that allows them to read as sculptural objects suspended within the transparent envelope, creating a visual dialogue between past industrial function and present aesthetic appreciation. The material palette demonstrates refined sensitivity to contrast and complementarity—the warm bronze or corten cladding of the guest room wing establishes intimate domestic scale against the heroic industrial vocabulary of the former plant structure. The preserved chimney stack serves as a powerful symbolic marker, its vertical presence connecting the composition to industrial memory while the careful accent lighting transforms it from remnant into monument. Viewers might contemplate how architectural lighting serves as a form of storytelling, revealing layers of temporal meaning and inviting reflection on continuity and transformation within the built environment.
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- Unique Properties
- Shangri-La Hotel is located at the core of Shougang Park. The original site was a power generation plant that provided energy for steel production. It has a total construction area of 63,600 square meters and has 283 guest rooms. The lighting of the entire hotel's indoor and outdoor spaces uses LED light sources, and the lighting scene changes with time. The designer uses warm color temperature lighting to create a comfortable light environment for the hotel space.
- Tags
- hotel，industrial， renovation， lighting
- Design Challenge
- In interior lighting design, we face many challenges. The lobby with a height of more than 20 meters needs to create an indoor light effect that looks transparent outdoors at night. Therefore, we installed high-power linear uplights on the concrete platform close to the glass wall, and installed uplights on the column bases to make each structural column more rhythmic.
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The designer installed 6W wide beam floodlights on the structure of the steel frame roof to illuminate the staggered steel structure of the roof, presenting the interior decoration structure and enhancing the internal light transmission effect of the hollow area.
The lighting of the spiral staircase is to use the stair handrail to hide the light strip. While providing lighting, it also allows the lights to spiral up with this Chinese red. We placed an underwater light in the water at the bottom of the stairs, and cast light on the bottom of the stairs to form a reflection in the water, increasing the three-dimensional extension of the stairs. - Project Duration
- Completed in December 2021， Beijing
- Operation Flow
- The lighting of the entire hotel's indoor and outdoor spaces uses LED light sources, and the lighting scene changes with time.
The facade of the whole building adopts 3000k color temperature LED, which makes the hotel building coordinate with other buildings in the park at night. The interior light transmits well at night to express the facade light effect.
In order to ensure that the green plants without direct sunlight
can get good oxygen content, the lights for the trees are all sunlike lights to ensure that the lighting of green plants is provided and the sunlight is simulated.
The 20-meter-high art installation "Journey of Hope" comes from Japanese studio - Studio Sawade Design. The idea comes from migrating birds, which use metal materials to spiral upwards.Four groups of 6w narrow beam led underwater lights are placed in the water, and the upward beam emphasizes the shape of migratory birds. The designer added small flood lights at the grille on the frist floor, the audience can feel the dancing form of migratory birds no matter where they are. - Inspiration
- The design of Shangri-La Hotel has always been world-famous for its fresh garden scenery and lobby features full of Asian cultural atmosphere. In addition to adhering to this design style, the Shangri-La Hotel in Shougang Park also retains its own original architecture - Features of the factory.
- Image Credits
- TinoKwan Lighting Consultants (Beijing) Ltd.
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