Li Xu |#03557877 | Final Thesis Project | Academy of Art University |April 22, 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
06 THESIS SUMMARY
ABSTRACT INSPIRATION DESIGN CONCEPT
14 ANALYSIS
SITE BUILDING CLIENT & USER PROFILE
24 CASE STUDIES
THE WATER HOUSE THE SKYTEL HOTEL SND FASHION STORE
32 PROJECT DESIGN
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FLOOR PLAN
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ATRIUM ART GALLERY RETAIL STORE RESTAURANT SUITE
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THESIS SUMMARY ABSTRACT INSPIRATION DESIGN CONCEPT
CHAPTER I THESIS SUMMARY
ABSTRACT
My project is about developing a new mode of business hotel that crosses hospitality with art-related business to satisfy the demand of high-end hospitality and art exhibition and auction by converting an abandoned building into a modern and sustainable commercial space. The four-story building used to be a factory, but now it’s abandoned. The client is Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group Co. who wants to remodel it into a boutique hotel and art gallery with the intention to change the interior of the building. The client name the hotel as The New Hotel to show the goal of creating an innovative hotel in the neighborhood.The building is located at the southern outskirts of Chengdu, which is one of the most popular tourist areas in Chengdu China. Chengdu is the largest city in southwestern China with a 3,000-year long history. The city is famous for the Ba-Shu culture, Szechuan Buddhism and being the natural habitat for giant panda and other wild animals. The southern area of Chengdu has a distinct charm with enormous natural reserves dominating an area wildly covered by forest. The site is surrounded by many natural and cultural tourism attractions, such as the Stone Elephant Ecology Scenic Park, Changtan Lake, Egret Ecological Tourism Area, Daxigu Golf Courts, etc. The Stone Elephant Ecology Park is one of most popular tourist spots, which attracts more than 150,000 visitors yearly to the southern area of Chengdu. The rich history and nature reserves make Chengdu the most popular place for vacation and sightseeing in China. Meanwhile Chengdu is also known as the most active market for art exhibition and auction due to its reputation of being the cultural and art capital of China. According to the date collected by local reporter Ma Ebel in the 2013, Chengdu created in total 26.75 million yuan revenue from art auction. As the rapid development of the local tourism and the demand for gallery spaces caused a huge demand for hospitality facilities, the shortage of hospitality facilities is limiting the tourism growth. Therefore, a boutique hotel is very much in need in this neighborhood.
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Below from left: Old advirtisement of Hilton Hotel “Italy” vintage travel poster in the1930’s Photography of self-portraits by Alicia Savage
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CHAPTER I THESIS SUMMARY
INSPIRATION
Issey Miyake, born 22 April 1938, is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances. Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He studied graphic design at the Tama Art University in Tokyo, graduating in 1964. After graduation, he worked in Paris and New York City. Returning to Tokyo in 1970, he founded the Miyake Design Studio, a high-end producer of women’s fashion.His design garments are cut and sewn first, then sandwiched between layers of paper to create dramatic geometries on the surface of the garments. His approach inspired me in my own design process. It inspired me to create secondary geometries base on changing and dividing basic geometries. This process of creating new geometries has guide the fundamental design concept of my hotel.
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Below from left: Issey Miyake Fashion Show 2011; Issey Miyake Bag; Issey Miyake Fashion Show 2011; Issey Miyake Woman Ready to Wear.
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DESIGN CONCEPT
Break a geometric shape without complete separation of parts. It’s a design process of breaking one basic geometric shape into multiple geometric shapes. Each new geometric shape that’s created represents the incomplete separation of geometry. The process of breaking the shape into multiple new shapes is based on the functionality of the space and designer’s aesthetic rules.
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Below from left: Illustration of a diamond Paper crafted gems by Lisa Hamliton 3D printed dress by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen
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ANALYSIS SITE BUILDING CLIENT & USER PROFILE
CHAPTER II ANALYSIS
SITE ANALYSIS
Below from top: World map; Map of city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China.
The site of the New Hotel was built in Chengdu, Sichuan province, the biggiest metropolis in the southwestern of China. The buidling is located on the outskirt of the city of Chengdu. The building is located at the southern outskirt of Chengdu, is one of the most popular tourism areas in Chengdu China. Chengdu is the largest city in southwestern China with 3,000 years long history. The city is famous for the Ba-Shu culture, Szechuan Buddhism and being the natural habitat for gaint panda and other wild animals. The southern area of Chengdu has a distinct charm with enormous natural reserves dominating the wide forest cover area. The site is surrounding by many natural and cultural tourism attractions, such as Shixianghu Ecology Scenic Park, Changtan Lake, Chaoyang Lake, Bailu Ecological Tourism Area, Yingtaoshan Tourism Area, Qingquan flower sea, Daxigu Golf and etc. Shixianghu Ecology Park is one of most popular tourism spot, which attracts more than 150,000 visitors yearly to the southern area of Chengdu. The public access to the site is mainly by car or bus. Meanwhile, Chengdu is one of the financial center for art busniess and fashion wholesales busniess. There are over 80,000 people travel to Chengdu for art and fashion related busniess. The site is 25 minutes away by car from the airport and 30 minutes away by car from the central area of Chengdu.
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Below from left: Tradition pavilion in Chengdu; ChunXi road in downtown of Chengdu, where has the busiest shopping centers.
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CHAPTER II ANALYSIS
Chengdu international airport
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Left to below: Chengdu city map; Map of the site neighborhood
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Left to below: Guyanjing Relic Site; Egret Ecological Park; Shixianghu Park; Nine Lotus Scenic Spot; Daxigu Golf Training Field
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CHAPTER II ANALYSIS
BUILDING ANALYSIS
Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, China Total Square Footage: 72,236 s.f Storey: Three stories in total, they are the ground floor, the second floor, the third floor and the rooftop. Building Construction: Reinforced concrete
The building was built in 2001, and it was used as Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group’s factory and office. In 2010, the office moved to the central area of Chengdu, ever since then, the building was vacant. In 2012, the Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group decided to work on more hotel development project, because the new neighborhood has a great potential to run a successful hotel. As the number of visitors is increasing enormously every year, building a new hotel is the final business idea they made at the end of 2012. After talking to the development manger, I got the architectural construction documents from the company. The building has total 4 stories, total square footage of this building is 63,366 square feet. The first floor of the building has two outdoor parking spaces. One is on the south side and another one is on the north side. It was designed to have trucks coming in for moving in and out the inventory. The rooftop is on the fourth floor, but it wasn’t used for any purpose.
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Below from left: The floorplan of the ground floor; The
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CLIENT PROFILE
Below from left: The client - Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group current real estate project in 2014.
Chengdu Zhixin Industrial Group Co., Ltd. is based inChengdu, China. Zhixin Industrial Group develops and operates hotels, theme parks, and tourist centers. It’s based in Chengdu, China. The company has over 50 years of experiences on hotel development and operations. The company has decided to convert a neglected factory building into a business hotel that’s exclusive and innovative - The New Hotel. This company provided me the construction documents and the architecture information that I need for my thesis project.
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USER PROFILE
Below : A worker from Alibaba Group who’s a potential user of The New Hotel.
There are two major group of the users of the new hotel. The first group of the users are the local visitors from the city of Chengdu, or adjacent cities are the main users of the hotel. They are the general publics who are interested in the surrounding natural tourism attractions or art exhibitions. Also tourists from other cities in china and international visitors who are interested in traditional sezchuan culture and art are also the main target market for The New Hotel. Another group of the users are business travelers. They are businessmen in different industries, especially art and fashion business. They are the upper middle-class age from 23 to 60 years old, who have average income of 229,000yuan (36,000 USD) and require high quality of hospitality. They are the professionals working in various industries, especially people who work in the art market. They will be the major user of the art gallery and the public dining space.
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CASE STUDIES THE WATERHOUSE THE SKYTEL HOTEL THE SND STORE
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THE WATER HOUSE
Architects: Neri & Hu Design and Research Office Location: Shanghai, China Design Team: Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu, Debby Haepers, Cai Chun yan, Markus Stoecklein, Jane Wang Project Year: 2010 Gross Square Footage: 2800 sqm
The water house hotel is located in the South Bund District of Shanghai. It is a four-story, 19-room boutique hotel that was remodeled from an existing three-story Japanese Army headquarters building from the 1930’s. The exterior and interior design was completed by the Chinese interior design group - Neri & Hu. The Huangpu River is right next to the hotel, and can be viewed from the guestrooms. The architectural concept is to create a clear contrast of what is old and what is new. The original concrete building has been restored while new decorative elements built over the existing structure were made using rusty and recycled equipment such as old doors and window frames. These elements reflect the industrial past of the old Shanghai history. In order to create a refreshing spatial experience for the hotel guests who desire unique five-star hospitality experience. Neri & Hu reinforced the idea of the new and old through using big empty spaces to demonstrate the industrial look of the hotel. In addition, the antique furniture and rusty materials are used in the public area to serve the same purpose. Furthermore, the public spaces allow people to get access to the private rooms easily. Meanwhile the private spaces invite people to look out at the public arenas, for example there is a large vertical room window above the reception desk and the corridor windows overlooking the dining room. These visual connections between spaces highlights and brings excitements to the spaces. And it also helps the hotel guests to experience the diverse living experience in shanghai of the new and old lifestyle. The concept of contrasting the modern and the historical, the old and new is illustrated perfectly in the design of the water house hotel.
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Right: 1F Floor Plan Below from left: Guest Room Viewdeck Guest Room Living Room Area Guest Room Shower
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SKYTEL HOTEL Architects: PANORAMA Location: Chengdu, Sichuan, China Design Team: : Horace Pan, Nick Wong, Kenny Hung Project Year: 2014 Gross Square Footage: 850.0 sqm
The Skytel Hotel is a newly opened boutique hotel in Chengdu China. It’s a business hotel that combines hospitality and art-related business together to serve the local market for art exhibition and auction. The interior designer was inspired by the hotel name ‘Skytel’. Skytel is an abstract idea of interior landscape of sky, mountain and earth. These three elements were used to guide the design of the functional of the hotel and art gallery. The entrance lobby is wide and minimal. It allows for the changing the exhibition to fill in the flavor in the space. The white wall and silk curtains provide a transition from the busy world to an abstract and serene hospitality space. A cloud-like art installation in the exhibition area attracts attention from the visitors through the interactive projection that are installed in the area. The reception and waiting areas provide casual settings, and the minimal color scheme simplifies the purpose of the space. The metal wall at reception area shows the bird’s eye view of Chengdu’s future cityscape, which is a nice touch to its design. Cocktail events are supplemented in the brown-toned lobby lounge, where the timber screens and copper partitions give privacy and acoustic quality to the space during usual days.
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Right: Ground Floor Plan Below from left: Hotel Lobby and Art Gallery Art Gallery Installation Art Gallery Display Shelves
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THE SND STORE Architects: 3GATTI Location: Chongqing, Chongqing, China Design Team: : Carole Chan Liat, Cianan Alexander Crowley, YingLing Kong, Bogdan Chipara, Jovan Kocic, Pao Yee Lim Project Year: 2014 Gross Square Footage: 180.0 sqm
The SND Store is located in the Chongqing World Financial Center. When the design team started this retail project they had a simple and appealing idea of hanging everything from the ceiling. Without having furniture on the sales floor, the space could be free for customers to circulate. They created an elastic ceiling that is pulled down by the weight of these various objects. The ceiling is a permeable surface. According to the architect, “This was the origin of the ethereal white ceiling; An ephemeral support for ephemeral objects.” The size of the store is not very big, but the extension of the ceiling landscape is very successfully in extending depth. This heavenly ceiling surely created a dynamic highlight for the space. The ceiling treatment really inspired me to apply my design concept to the ceiling I’m designing for the hotel project. The idea of treating the ceiling as a dynamic sculpture, not a flat surface is important to bring visual excitement into the design. The designer also used recycled timber as a dark background for the floor and walls to make the ceiling emerge from the general environment. The store façade is transparent and it simply shows the striped outline of the ceiling to create a sculptural attraction for the visitors to the Chongqing World Financial Center.
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Right: SND Fashion Store Floor Plan Below from left: Merchandise Display Registeration Desk Fitting Room
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PROJECT DESIGN CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING FLOOR PLAN
CHAPTER IV PROJECT DESIGN
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Break a geometric shape without complete separation of parts. It’s a design process of breaking one basic geometric shape into multiple geometric shapes. Each new geometric shape that’s created represents the incomplete separation of geometry. The process of breaking the shape into multiple new shapes is based on the functionality of the space and designer’s aesthetic rules.
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Below from above: Concept sketches
While I’m developing my floor plan, I want to create a polygon shaped boarder between each focus spaces. And the boarder should not only be an object to divide the space, it should also be a highlight to the design.My guestrooms on the second and third floor are all layout along the curtain wall or big windows, which is basically the outline of the building. Then the corridor of the guestroom floor would be dark and plain. I come up with a solution to the corridor issue, I decide to create a polygon shaped seven feet wall from the first floor all way to the rooftop level to building an atrium space. That way, the corridor on the guest room floors can go along with the atrium. The lighting problem will be solved and it also create an interactive space between the guest room floor and the atrium.
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CHAPTER IV PROJECT DESIGN
PROGRAMMING
First walk in the hotel, users will enter the atrium space. The hotel lobby and hotel lounge are both located in the atrium. I create a 7 feet wall to divide the spaces, the 7 feet wall goes all way to the top of the building. So the atrium becomes a space that’s 3 stores high and functioning as one of the most important public area that gathers and spread the circulation traffic. On the first floor the 7 feet wall separate the lobby area and other public spaces. The cute out door on the 7 feet wall leads to the gallery, the cafÊ and the restaurant. On the second and third floor, which are the guest floors. The cute out windows on the guest floors take in the natural lights to the corridor which is behind the 7 feel wall. The cute out windows invites people on the guest to look out at the atrium. The visual connections between spaces brings highlights and excitement.
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Below: Color illustration of the building section.
The building has three floors and the rooftop floor. Most of the public spaces are located on the first floor. Such as the hotel lobby, the lobby lounge, the restaurant, the art gallery and the retail store. The second and the third floor are the guestroom floors. They are more private than the first floor. The east and west side of the first floor has a 10 feet high mezzanine spaces. I take the height to combine with the first floor to create a taller space.
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INACCESSIBLE ROOFTOP
SUITES BACK OF THE HOUSE
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BELOW : Floorplan of hotel reception and concierge
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BELOW FROM LEFT: Materials and applied in the reception area. The rope is used as the partition to seperate the exhibition area and the sitting area.
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BELOW : Floorplan of lobby lounge
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BELOW: The third floor; Over look to the atrium from the third floor.
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BELOW : Customized lighting fixture
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BELOW: The exhibition area and bar area in the art gallery.
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BELOW : The exhibition area art work by textile designer Anna Duthie
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BELOW : Materials and furnitures applied in the art gallery. The rope is used as the partition to seperate the exhibition area and the sitting area.
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BELOW FROM LEFT: Recessed downlight; Thin Flat Panel LED Light; Materials applied in retail store and customized reception desk.
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BELOW: Textile design and customized restaurant stool
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BELOW: 3D wall panel; Textile design for the bed sheets
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BELOW: Materials applied in the suite bathroom.
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I’m an artist.I’m a free spirit; I’m adventurous; I’m a well traveller. I have an unmovable passion of art and fashion; I like to create aesthetic work that’s practical and it also could delight and inspire people. I’m a born and bred Chinese; I appreciate the traditional Chinese culture that grew up with. It has made me who I am. And I also appreciate the opportunity to study in the United States. The western culture has influenced me and it helped me build a different perspective of things and a motivation of finding the better in myself. My passion of art was found when I was five-year-old, that I drew stuff all over the wall in my bedroom. My mum was delighted to find my talent and passion of drawing, and she bought me the first sketcHbook so that I can draw on somewhere appropriate.The talent of drawing and three years of pre-college training brought me into the art school to study fine arts in my hometown, the beautiful city Chengdu in the southwestern China. In the sophomore year of college, my professor encouraged me to participate an interior design program of redesigning a local hotel. I was in charge of the mural painting in the hotel lobby and the furniture selection for the lobby. From that experience, I found my great interest of interior design and I started to learn AutoCAD by myself and soon then I got an internship from an interior design firm that was focusing on office design. All of these experiences pushed me towards a career in interior design.After finish my fine art undergraduate program in china. I decided to go to the United States to peruse a further education. I moved across the Pacific Ocean alone to the city on the west coast of The United States, San Francisco, a rich city in art and design, to start my new life and mater’s at Academy of Art University.The reason I chose to study in Academy of Art University is because it’s a fundamental place of artists.
The instructors are not only well-acknowledged artists but also professionals that having rich experiences in the design industry. All efforts they’re putting in the classes make the whole learning experiences become extremely educational and practical.My first year in Academy of Art was challenging. I took three studio classes every semester while I was studying English as my second language. It has been very productive in the past three years in Academy of Art. I started with entrance leave classes, learned the construction documentation and design process. My instructors were giving me a lot of help to understand design. At the second year, I took some design studio classes. These classes helped built up my design sensation and abilities. It has been an exciting challenge as each semester’s experiences of projects, curriculum and the interaction with my classmates and instructors. Right now, I’m in the last year of my MFA in Interior design, and am excited to make it all the way to the end and to take the real practice in the design industry.
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I am currently a student at the Academy of Art University who is highly passionate about high-end residential and hospitality design. My background includes both fine arts and interior architecture & design with work experience of office design and hospitality design.
Experience Design Intern Nicolehollis Interior Design – San Francisco,CA
06/2014-09/2014
Hospitality Projects Assisted designers with schematic design and space planning Assisted designers with FF&E selection and procurement Communicated with vendors to order and organize materials Created hand rendering and digital renderings in Photoshop Created and modified customized furniture drawings in AutoCAD Assisted designers with daily office task
Education Master of Arts: Interior Architecture & Design Academy of Art University – San Francisco, CA Academic projects: Draper & Pryce Advertising Office Four Season Baltimore Hotel Pier 48 Hotel
Technical Proficiency AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe 3Dmax Microsoft Excel
05/2015 (Expected)
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