We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Ivan Cheng about their original and creative Hotel design work. Ivan Cheng is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original hotel works.
Ivan Cheng ("IC") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Hilton Hangzhou Qiandao Lake Resort Hotel. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
IC : According to investigations of local industries, culture and tourism destination characteristics, there is no international business hotel in this area, while there is the visible distinction between high and low seasons. Therefore we offer our suggestions: in terms of the function, the hotel design should incorporate both resort and business functions to meet the needs of different residents; in terms of the style, the design should adopt diversified approaches integrating both of client's corporate culture and local culture. Such design achieves consensus between the client and hotel management company.
IC : The design should reflect both of client's corporate culture and local human culture to build the international hotel with local characteristics. The design should meet the business residents' needs. The design should highlight the resort theme and incorporate the Chinese element.
IC : Design more and more good works.
IC : About 5 months.
IC : This design was commissioned
IC : Yes, my design is being produced by our client.
IC : For the Qiandao lake water and local culture.
IC : In terms of function.
IC : The hotel design features diversified styles and functions which coincide with local characteristics and meet the needs of different people to create the sustainable natural space. To achieve harmony of the entire hotel design, it particularly adds the interior decoration of Arts Corridor integrated with the lake view, combining both Chinese and western cultures to reveal the poetic cultural aura. It now becomes one symbolic hotel on Qiandao Lakeside. The special designs reveal themselves throughout the hotel: the magnificent lobby contrasts strongly with the ordinary resort hotel appearance, rendering the dramatic shock meanwhile integrating views outside the glass to create an amazing effect.
IC : Hilton Hangzhou Qiandao Lake Resort is named by our client.
IC : Investigate and analysis.
IC : The design theme of water coincides with locally characteristic culture and is integrated well with Qiandao Lake scenery, the Most Beautiful Lake of Heaven. The design meets the needs of different residents which adds the market value of hotel. The interior space extends the bracing and agreeable Qiandao Lake scenery, and the hotel becomes one ideal place for local wedding ceremonies and conventions where the guests feel reluctant to leave. The design integrates vague Chinese elements into the hotel, including the hanging landscape paintings and corridor murals featuring Chinese-style lines. Apart from its characteristic functions and views, we also integrate some art displays and designs of the boutique hotel into this design to upgrade the level of five-star hotel.
IC : Our design construction side.
IC : The lobby features eight-meter-high space and adopts advanced noise-filtering mute technology of air conditioner which could be hardly heard. In the meeting hall, there is a magnificent bell-shaped elevator lobby around thirty-meter high. Render the picturesque artistic hotel from the perspective of stage setting. Create unique works of art which fit the design atmosphere of hotel, like the colorful glass curtain walls in the lobby, the abstract landscape-pattern carpet and the hanging red 3D flower embossment.
IC : Despite tight schedule, we eventually conquered this challenge and all difficulties through the joint endeavor of our team.
IC : Good design should show to everyone.
IC : How to coordinate and balance the relationship between the principal and hotel management companies.
