Scope: Interiors
Type: New building
Layers: 5 Storeys
Function area: Lobby, restaurant, ballroom, 180 guestrooms, SPA, meditation space, etc.
Construction: 1/2022-4/2023
Photo: Arch-Exist Photography
Video: PLAT ASIA ndn lab
Press
Architectural
Practice, No.057, Aug 2023, China
Deco
Journal, vol338, Sep 2023, South Korea
ELLE
Décor Italia, Oct 2023, Italy, Digital version
100
Best Design Small Hotels, Resorts & Hostels, ROOM BOOKS, Jan 2024, Thailand
Descriptions
Aranya Hidden
Place Hotel overlooks the Golden Coast at Qinhuangdao. This project is
accommodated in a 5-story building in the Aranya community. PLAT ASIA atelier d
was designated for the hotel's interior design. It arranged 180 guest rooms
with all bath pools, a multifunctional lobby, an all-day restaurant, a banquet
hall, SPA, a meditation area, and so on. This hotel creates a distinction from
urban daily life, which is fast-speed, high-density, and over-information, but
a hospitality space that restores the spirits and makes an experience gaining
new energy for life. The all-bath-pool-themed hotel explores an immersed
journey both in a mental and physical sense. A wander in the teahouse-like
lobby evokes the belongings captured in the memory of a time-space trip.
Belongings,
Teahouse
The Lobby space
is designed not only as a usual check-in place but also as a slow-down and
staying place since the hotel is away from the center of the community. The
design hangs several teahouse pavilions, which construct a hospitality
atmosphere; these line in different positions, outlined and paved with gravel,
scatter lightings through walls like a soft wooden frame grown from a steady
stone base. This duo of natural materials compares dark and bright, harmonious
with heavy and light, forming a pure and initial atmosphere. The original grand
volume for the lobby area is dispersed into a human-scale teahouse with
different sizes and reorganized the lobby layout, creating an open, dynamic,
inversed inner and outer space and a path to a mystery and pleasurable journey.
The levitating teahouse and the lamp at night symbolize belonging on a trip:
when night steps in, family and friends spend a warm and close time together.
Be-with-water,
Habitat
Every guest
rooms own a bathing pool, and the flowing stream and bath experience is the
unique vocational feeling in Aranya Hidden Place Hotel. Courtyard suite set a
sole bathroom open to both inner and outer, providing a bath scene both natural
outdoors and private indoors. Water surrounds people at a big-scale bath pool
which makes more perceptual sense; likewise, it brings an exceptional
experience using the triangle-shaped bar, creating a fresh feeling for guests.
The triangle area from the original architecture is renovated and utilized into
the big-scale bar, which presents un-daily hospitality. A decentered wall
textured with wood is formed by the un-decorated principle that remains a
physical sense and spiritual imagination.
Vigor,
Landscapes
The architect
applies to the commons rooted in Eastern aesthetics, with a deliberated touch
and reflection of light and natural elements, considering the spatial lifecycle
and sustainability. Several kinds of materials create a more harmonious space
atmosphere. The timber grilles partition wall in the restaurant filters the
light and is a functional boundary. The dining area is ceilinged with a simple
block to extend the vertical vision. The wooden panel grilles in the banquet
hall in line orders and rhymes also hide the installment and in consideration
of acoustic. The foyer of the banquet ceiling makes a more fabulous rectangle
frame filled with grilles generating visionary changes. The slim purlin of the
teahouse frame structure the membrane and breathe of materials. A wooden rectangle
board decorated wall in the guest room responds to the public space's
simplified geometry and materials language. Sunlight showers through
floor-to-ceiling windows combine the views of the restaurant and outdoors,
besides enhancing the vistas from the banquet foyer to the woods in the south.
The natural vigor relates to the interiors and landscape.
The project is
under the architect's control beyond strong expression in design. However,
arrange many details to build the hospitality, create a restored mental space,
and accomplish a memorable and enjoyable journey.
Credits
Architects: PLAT ASIA
Design team:
PLAT ASIA atelier d – Donghyun JUNG, Guowei Liu, Jingyun Lian, Yuanyu Liao,
Yichen Duan, Manying Li; Designer-in-residence – Yichen Duan
Interiors LDI:
YiBoChuan (Shandong) Design Institute
Clients:
Aranya