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Interior

2020

Photographer : Latent Image by Jagjit Singh

Based on a major peripheral highway along Chandigarh this is a nautical-themed luxury boutique hotel with its 14 rooms, restaurant, rooftop lounge and banquet roots its design in its calm earthy palette with its hues, textures & materials; themed accents added by the artwork, accentuating the design sensibility it is conceived with.

The project came to us in the form of a shell structure with majority of its civil work completed in a standard bay showroom format with little to no consideration for the functions it was to accommodate.

The client being a captain in the merchant navy wanted the built environment and the space within it to portray his passion and profession that is seafaring. The design made to convey a sea side setting in the typology of a bay showroom; a contemporary rendition of his classical poised sensibilities.

With little room for maneuvering and having to achieve a feeling of a ship anchored at port, so as to meet the aspirations of the client in consonance with the name "HOTEL ANCHORAGE". One could stay true to the brief by achieving a unique calmness and providing visual fluidity poised in its stillness.

This was made possible from the adorning concave tubular columns of the facade, its bi-planar element flowing over from its side onto the floor and forming the landscape, to its seafaring adornments, selections of colors, textures and materials to bring about a certain sense of inertia in contrast to micro built environment it is located in. Thereby, setting an expectant tone to be carried forward by its planning interiors, which are as engulfing and engaging as the outer look of the building in perfect counter balance.

To design the space with a certain sense of inertia along with the materials used the method of application played an equally important role in defining its design language which could seamlessly fuse a rustic interior with a contemporary design sense while using an earthy palette. The defining material used either travelling in or a binding a space was chosen to be textured or rustic while the application remained modern and the design contemporary. Conveying the design sense through artwork and artifacts was an equally essential part of the design process and the user experience.

Probably the biggest challenge was playing with and developing a nautical theme using subtle elements that seamlessly could bind the design and not underplay each other while all of this done within an already set envelope which at every step tried the limit the creative construct of the theme.

Mohali (S.A.S Nagar),Punjab,India

Architects	:	Dhruv Sarveshwar Lal & Associates
Area	:	13,000 sq.ft.
Year	:	2020
Website	:	www.studiodsla.com

The Lobby

The entrance level houses this space designed as the first interaction with the theme-based interior. The origami-based ceiling mimics the underside of boats and the pristine white wavy partition forms the extents of this space meant to communicate a sense of standing under the surface of the water.

The Front Desk

Comprising of these custom-made hand-painted themed blue panels which form the backdrop to a sculptural check-in desk, placed as the binding center of the space in part and as a whole under a light fixture representing ship sails.

The Façade

The built mass adorned by tubular concave columns lending fluidity to its rigid cubical geometry and the interaction with light, natural or intended, forming travelling shades and shadows further softening the façade.

The common area and the Lift Lobby

The design of a seamless circulation space (in defining its functions) related to opening up the space by keeping it minimalistic and having only a functionally defining element created in one of the base materials of the overall palette.

The Dock- Restaurant

With an approach to creating volume & interest in the linear space, the wireframe vaulted arch ceiling adds dimension, with the use of a rustic stone finish traveling & defining the space through its composure was the intent behind this medieval dockyard-inspired dine-in.

The Bar

Settled in a nook located next to the center of the restaurant is the bar, simulating an outdoorsy feel by being served across a stone counter set against the backdrop of a backlit display portraying large openings with the vaulted arch ceiling completing the frame.

Dine-In Seating

Seating placed along the partition walls facing the other 3 walls housing large openings in the space, letting in gracious amounts of natural light accentuating the earthy material palette and calming the space further, liting the landscaped surrounds become a visually experiential & the relief provided by the wire-mesh sculpture breaks the only large mass enclosing the space. Keeping in tandem with the thematic material palette subtle use of earthy colors defined the space. A conscious implementation of textures and applicative variations for any material used to add relief and softness so as to not let any single material underplay the others.

Dine-In Seating

The Room

Large openings to let in light accentuating its rich colors & contrasts, with a framed red good earth wallpaper & its intrinsic tropical voyagistic golden detailing mounted over the theme centric blue wall intending the wall to act as an artwork, filling the space to be in coherence with the contemporary bedback and providing a crafted backdrop for the reclaimed wood furniture pieces.

Forming the space to conceal heavy structural beams/services and enriching the resulting reduced volume, using light tones coupled with a Statuario bedside accent aiding in the dispersal of light in the north placed rooms.

The Room

The Lighthouse- Rooftop Cafe

Developing on the theme and name, the floor is developed on an open-air ideology with minimal permanent structures, spacing sleek furniture over an open layout providing view& privacy to every seating arrangement.