CLIENTS : Concorde Hotel & Resorts with Starwood Capital
LOCATION : Hotel Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, Porte Maillot, Paris, FRANCE
PROGRAM : Mock-up room design in conjunction with Building envelope redesign
APPOINTMENT : Interior Design
DATE : 2012
New bedrooms for a new building facade
The Concorde Lafayette Hotel at Porte Maillot in Paris (presently named Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile) is a ‘70s high rise building whose radial structure plan provides about 24m² floor areas for each bedroom.
The project for the refurbishing of the bedrooms is commissioned to PLC Architectures in conjunction with the appointment to ARUP engineers to redesign the building’s envelope.
The challenge is to offer a 4stars bedroom of 24m² floor area when up-to-date international standards claim a minimum of about 30m² for a standard 4stars hotel room.
The rooms Interior Design project therefore calls for a complete reinvention of the whole bedroom concept in terms of space, fittings, ergonomic and lighting. The research for a groundbreaking new concept suggests the construction of a full scale mock-up room.
De-constructing the “box-within-a-box” typical layout
The design concept springs from the intention to de-construct the typical hotel room layout providing the volume of the services within the volume of the bedroom or, like in a shoe-boxes game, the “box-within-a-box” layout.
Instead, functions and services are redistributed within the given bedroom volume according to a special organization aiming to enhance as much as possible outside views in coherence with the new building envelope design. A funnel like plan is adopted, opening up from the room entry door towards the new fully glazed façade, creating the feeling of a much wider space of what perceived when entering one of the existing rooms.
A large mirror, with same height of the glazed façade ,is placed on the wall perpendicular to the façade glazing, attached to it and thus creating an apparently continuous glazing partially folded-in towards the inner space of the room. This space enhancing device increases the feeling of openness while at the same time taking the city views inside the room space.
Extending livable space without increasing the room surface
The new envelope design with a serrated façade is turned into an interior design feature by creating a bench height seating all along the window glazing. The window bay becomes therefore a fully livable space expanding the usable room space without increasing the actual floor area.
A folding table slides along the whole bench allowing to enjoy breakfast or a drink or to work on a laptop while taking advantage of breathtaking views of Paris.
Luxury boat fittings
Custom designed wooden fittings and wall claddings are inspired to luxury boat fittings design, both for the careful choice of long lasting materials, detailing and joinery work and also for the ergonomic and space efficient features. All room’s equipment and services are concealed in the wooden fittings, including the wide-screen TV set, a fold-down table, the built-in cupboard, as well as the bathroom space.
No lights fixtures but surfaces diffusing light
The room’s lighting concept is to avoid the presence of light fixtures so to have the cleanest possible perception of the room space but also, particularly, to any light reflections on the window glazing and the large mirror that would disturb the city views at night time.
The floor and the ceiling become surfaces diffusing light through a bespoke lighting system of continuous LEDs strip lightings concealed in the wooden fittings and cabinetry.
Building application
The project for the redesign of the building envelope, together with the refurbishing of all rooms (about a thousand rooms)has been presented to the city authorities in the form of a planning application, granted in 2013.
LOCATION : Hotel Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, Porte Maillot, Paris, FRANCE
PROGRAM : Mock-up room design in conjunction with Building envelope redesign
APPOINTMENT : Interior Design
DATE : 2012
New bedrooms for a new building facade
The Concorde Lafayette Hotel at Porte Maillot in Paris (presently named Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile) is a ‘70s high rise building whose radial structure plan provides about 24m² floor areas for each bedroom.
The project for the refurbishing of the bedrooms is commissioned to PLC Architectures in conjunction with the appointment to ARUP engineers to redesign the building’s envelope.
The challenge is to offer a 4stars bedroom of 24m² floor area when up-to-date international standards claim a minimum of about 30m² for a standard 4stars hotel room.
The rooms Interior Design project therefore calls for a complete reinvention of the whole bedroom concept in terms of space, fittings, ergonomic and lighting. The research for a groundbreaking new concept suggests the construction of a full scale mock-up room.
De-constructing the “box-within-a-box” typical layout
The design concept springs from the intention to de-construct the typical hotel room layout providing the volume of the services within the volume of the bedroom or, like in a shoe-boxes game, the “box-within-a-box” layout.
Instead, functions and services are redistributed within the given bedroom volume according to a special organization aiming to enhance as much as possible outside views in coherence with the new building envelope design. A funnel like plan is adopted, opening up from the room entry door towards the new fully glazed façade, creating the feeling of a much wider space of what perceived when entering one of the existing rooms.
A large mirror, with same height of the glazed façade ,is placed on the wall perpendicular to the façade glazing, attached to it and thus creating an apparently continuous glazing partially folded-in towards the inner space of the room. This space enhancing device increases the feeling of openness while at the same time taking the city views inside the room space.
Extending livable space without increasing the room surface
The new envelope design with a serrated façade is turned into an interior design feature by creating a bench height seating all along the window glazing. The window bay becomes therefore a fully livable space expanding the usable room space without increasing the actual floor area.
A folding table slides along the whole bench allowing to enjoy breakfast or a drink or to work on a laptop while taking advantage of breathtaking views of Paris.
Luxury boat fittings
Custom designed wooden fittings and wall claddings are inspired to luxury boat fittings design, both for the careful choice of long lasting materials, detailing and joinery work and also for the ergonomic and space efficient features. All room’s equipment and services are concealed in the wooden fittings, including the wide-screen TV set, a fold-down table, the built-in cupboard, as well as the bathroom space.
No lights fixtures but surfaces diffusing light
The room’s lighting concept is to avoid the presence of light fixtures so to have the cleanest possible perception of the room space but also, particularly, to any light reflections on the window glazing and the large mirror that would disturb the city views at night time.
The floor and the ceiling become surfaces diffusing light through a bespoke lighting system of continuous LEDs strip lightings concealed in the wooden fittings and cabinetry.
Building application
The project for the redesign of the building envelope, together with the refurbishing of all rooms (about a thousand rooms)has been presented to the city authorities in the form of a planning application, granted in 2013.
CLIENT :
Concorde Hotels & Resorts with Starwood Capital
ARCHITECT :
PLC Architectures
DESIGN TEAM :
Pier Luigi Copat, Architect, principal
Flavio Piasente, Project Architect
Massimiliano Sartori, Collaborator
BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN :
Arup & Partners : Andrew Hall, Design Director
CONTRACTOR :
BARTH Innenhausbau
Concorde Hotels & Resorts with Starwood Capital
ARCHITECT :
PLC Architectures
DESIGN TEAM :
Pier Luigi Copat, Architect, principal
Flavio Piasente, Project Architect
Massimiliano Sartori, Collaborator
BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN :
Arup & Partners : Andrew Hall, Design Director
CONTRACTOR :
BARTH Innenhausbau