2nd prize winner of the international competition "Night Club Hotel in Hong Kong" organized by Arquitectum.BUBBLE X
Located in the heart of mong
Kok district, the BUBLLE X project is an object of desire. It promises the
existence of a carnal place, where sensuality, erosticism and exhilaration
prevail. The BUBBLE X project will be a place which draws inspiration from the
satisfied and unsatisfied fantasies and sex drives.This project materializes
the movement of liquid as the corporal fluid, which runs down the body
during the moments of excitation. As an adrenaline rush waving particles
through the veins, inner surfaces made in
red latex spread over the tower to corrupt his heart. Moving and
lightness of bubbles create duality between rest spaces and living spaces in
the building.Living, partying,
sleeping : the project subtly dissociates two types of programs in their
volumes and areas. Hotel rooms are designed as modular standardzation
representing metal skin of the tower.Housing’s buildings
surrounding the site participate to this modular facade. Interior of building
had to draw poeple’s attention b its color and transparency. You could imagine
figures prisoner of the buiding, as shadow puppetOur aim was to simplify this
contrasting programm and organize the tower in order to give clear choices for
customer’s move (or route).The project represents a large variety of
recreation programs, marked by bubble’s plastic themes (sports, food,
nightclub, business). The way of connecting the tower with its context had to be a catalyst. It
had to draw the pedestrians’ attention and to draw them to the interior of the
building. The raised dancing floors are designed by volumes made in tubes
integrated into the urban landscape. These volumes are cantilevered and by this
way they vaunt over the public area, as inaccessible showcases obvious from the
street.