Chanel Hotel Guest Room

Hi everyone! 3rd term has already come to an end! It was very fun and for my final, I had to design a hotel guest room for my Chanel hotel which was very exciting!

The concept for the room is the same as the hotel lobby, that is, to connect all the elements together conveying the brand's unique personality that all the products are packaged similar to each other.

Here goes the floor plans...

Living space - it is one step higher which is to show hierarchy, it has built-in furniture pieces which connect to the wall which is covered with the Chanel leather to show a more welcoming feeling

Workspace - has a built-in desk which comes down from the wall with shelves also covered with the famous Chanel leather pattern

Stairs to Bed - hierarchy to convey that the bed is the most important element in the room

Bed - it is designed in a rectangular shape with leather covered on the back wall and is shaped in a royal way which is inspired by the French kings

Window - it is huge which gives a contemporary feeling

TV - it is built-in to the wall and has a gap below that is painted gold which is to show depth and contrast

Closet - it is extended from the TV wall and it is made of glass to connect the interior of the closet to the whole room

Bathroom - it is connected to the closet and it is the only space in the room that has an entrance but without a door

Product Display - it is on the side wall of the bathroom

Side Wall - it is extended from the product display wall, it has angled shaped patterns to give off the design of the room

Crisp Lighting - a crisp white line shining on the floor guides you to the room and it also warns you of the step of the living space, it implies the clean and tidy feeling of the room as well

Indirect Lighting - to give warm and welcoming feeling

Indirect Lighting - the angled path has glowing yellow lights which lead you into the room

Section Perspective - Left Side

Section Perspective - Right Side

Entrance

Physical Model - Lit

Final Presentation Board

Hope you enjoyed! =)

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Env3 Midterm Summer '10

For my Environmental design 3 class, my project is to design a hotel for a brand.

I chose Chanel because the site is located in a high quality residential area, and Chanel is a very powerful brand in the fashion industry, therefore it would be perfect for the project.

I basically have to design only the lobby area of the hotel, but it needs to include a retail space, lobby or check-in area, a restaurant, a bar and elevators. The total size for me to design is 3,500 squared feet in a 15,700 squared feet ground level.

I researched about the brand and found out that most of its products are designed in a very similar way, either in the shape or in the color.

Not only the products, but Chanel retail stores are also designed in order to represent the brand clearly. All the Chanel stores are in rectangles but each of them looks very different from each other.

The demographics that the hotel is targeting is successful and confident women who desire to own luxurious products.

Concept Statement

Hotel De Luxe Chanel is a boutique hotel that is co-branded with the high end fashion brand Chanel, taking the brand's unique personality that all the products are designed very similar to each other, the hotel is a space which all its elements communicate and are open to each other.

Approach

Entry

Retail

Check-in

Lounge Bar

Restaurant

Here are some pictures of midterm presentation :)

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Illumination Project - Afterlife - Frozen Time

Hi everyone!

Here comes another project for illumination class. The topic is "afterlife", my partner and I chose to make an installation which "freezes" time.

Basically, we got some strobe lights and a bunch of water bottles poked with holes and tied with strings. The idea is that when water drops out from the hole onto the string, it looks like its frozen in the air with strobe lights flashing at the same pace as the water drops.

We set up a long piece of wood drilled with holes which are for the water bottles and put it onto the beam of the ceiling with wires holding it.

After putting it up, we tried to put water bottles into the holes and see how fast the water drops. We found out that the water was dropping too slowly and it might have something to do with the air, so we decided to drilled a small hole on the back of each bottle which lets air in and pushes the water to drop faster.

We then adjusted the direction of the strobe lights, we can't make them shine in front of people and blind them. Therefore, we decided to hang the lights from above to midway and shine from both directions.

The final big piece:

We put a big black piece of paper under the smaller bottles because the color black shows the water drops more clearly and we put a piece of white paper under the bigger bottle because the drops from the bigger bottle form very beautiful patterns and they show clearly on white.






Final installation:

















Videos will be up soon! :)


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