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Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang

INTERIOR DESIGN OF BOATYARD HOTEL INTERIORS

Wj Studio

INTERIOR DESIGNER
WJ STUDIO

LEAD ARCHITECT
Zhile Hu

DESIGN TEAM
Xi Yang, Lilien Yang, Shuyi Zhou, Zi Ye

CLIENT
Suzhou Blue City Cultural Tourism Co.

LIGHTING DESIGN
Yi Ke Guang Lighting Design (Shanghai) Co.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
GOA

PHOTOGRAPHS
Xi Zhang, Hai Zhu

AREA
1200 m²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Suzhou, China

CATEGORY
Interior Design, Hotels Interiors

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang

 In the village of Shanwan in Wujiang District, Suzhou, the tranquillity of the idyllic town, the quiet expanse of the river and the historical culture blend. The Boatyard Hotel is located in this languid spatial landscape.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu

WJ STUDIO is to give its indoor space rhyme and spatio-temporal experience. When people come to this place longing for the idyllic scenery of the water village, they do not know that they have already become a member of this scenery.

A three-dimensional space embraces things growing, evolving, and intersecting while time moves forward like a river.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu

The images one captures in each moment are instantaneous landscapes - nature, fields, light and artificial design meet at the intersection of space and time.

The hotel building is integrated with the surrounding natural landscape. The high and low arched roofs form a colony, just like the ships docked on the waterfront of the rising mountains.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu

When you turn around and enter, a slightly arched trestle bridge and a crow-top boat are moored on the side. The light pours down from the dome's skylight on a sunny day and is etched on the stone slab with time.

If it rains, the water droplets keep falling on the canopy, and the scenic rocks and Jiangnan's unique sound and colour are revealed in this area alone.

After passing the bridge, the large floor-to-ceiling windows open up the view. A bench with a carefully recessed water pattern invites visitors to sit and watch.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu

The circular outline is like sitting in a boat and looking out. The island is deliberately hidden in a dark place opposite the window, which can be found by looking back when needed. It is always unobtrusive and undisturbed, giving way to natural elegance.

When people Stroll along the promenade, the corridor is a place for relaxation and a coffee and book bar. Like a long scroll, the horizontal space and the arching roof take in the riverbank scenery one by one.

Corbusier's "Mother's House" is the ending at the end of the space. The similar overlooking bay window, river, lake and sea, and the overflowing light and shadow are intertwined in time and space at this moment.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang

Just as the artistic creation of the "docked boat" in the hotel expresses a semi-submerged state - may everyone who arrives here no longer wander and dwell in peace.

From the courtyard to the bedroom to the collection, the space progresses from outside to inside and from inside to out.

When you live in nature, you are connected to the earth, and your heart will be at peace and calm with the wind of the field.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu

The room facing the riverbank offers a panoramic view of the waterfront. All this breaks the traditional spatial axis, not coherently, but in a leaping way.

The guest room area from the first floor to the second floor is like the climax of a journey, guiding the occupants upward with great interest.

Light enters the reserved slits, creating a "line of sight" to the interior.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang

The guest rooms on the second floor retain their high vaulted ceilings, buffered by a foyer, and then have a horizontal opening to the room layout.

The tall and wide floor-to-ceiling windows are enough to incorporate the outdoor scenery into the interior.

Life is like a long boat, going for daily life and desire; love is the way back. At this moment, "the day on the boat" is to return to the essence of living and the deep meaning of the journey.

Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang


Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Xi Zhang
Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
© Hai Zhu


Interior Design Of Boatyard Hotel Interiors
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