We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Lichen Ding about their original and creative Hotel design work. Lichen Ding is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original hotel works.
Lichen Ding ("LD") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Hong Guang Hotel. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
LD : Inspired by Chinese classical gardens and combined with staggered artistic techniques to establish spatial order, the plane layout has a magnificent atmosp here and at the same time,there is no lack of elegance in Jiangnan gardens.
LD : Integrating Oriental life philosophy and art into contemporary design, design tries to find the space context of dialogue with the current Chinese elite, and deduce the contemporary Oriental temperament with profound connotations.
LD : Will continue to participate in the competition, so that people around the world to see the project.
LD : Generally, customers trust our intuition and judgment, and are directly entrusted by customers to design with full power. As the person in charge of this project, I personally want to let guests experience and feel something from the design.
LD : This is a customized design for customers, we hope and is the only one that meets local characteristics
LD : Through the perception of the local scenery and folk culture
LD : Business reception, travel and vacation, family and children
LD : With the traditional courtyard three-way hierarchical relationship as the design concept, let the lobby, aisle and lobby bar have their own place, and jointly create a three-hall-in-one state. The gray space divided by lines on both sides of the corridor makes the dense large and medium space suddenly clear. It also has the interest of step by step in oriental aesthetics and creates a quiet and dynamic atmosphere.
LD : This is the client company ’s own name, which already existed when I received the design task
LD : AutoCAD，3D MAX，Photoshop
LD : use modern Oriental design language, integrate the relationship between time, space, nature and human, create artistic conception with Oriental temperament aesthetics, artistically express their precise grasp of life style and details, see the beauty of life in symbiosis, and see the world in an inch.
LD : I completed this work with my design team
LD : Thinking about the contemporary design language with the logic of oriental aesthetics is a more modern, fashionable, artistic, poetic and modern Oriental Language. It is this invisible charm that makes people enter the space and feel that the entrance of the space is the starting point of the whole scene, showing charming changes.
LD : In the modern architectural space, there is an implicit Oriental aesthetic vein, which infuses classical poetic expression into the contemporary space.
LD : Apart from the rhythmic temperament of opening, gathering and dispersing, the key point of space is the appropriateness of each component, which not only fills the space with a dignified sense of ritual, but also forms the values of human, nature, architectural space and harmony.With very short timing, survey, design and construction happened at the same time. Efficient communication and mutual trust was the key to the success of the project.
LD : After a period of understanding on the competition website, I deeply felt the charm of the competition. The page pictures on the website were beautiful, and the rules and fees of the competition made people feel friendly.
LD : I think in our career, in addition to doing some business projects, it will be more meaningful to participate in social projects. Otherwise, our career can only make the world look better, better looking and more useful. That’s all. Here I want to quote a famous saying. “We don’t ask to be eternal beings, we only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.” — Antoine De Saint Exupéry
