What kind of atmosphere can present local feeling?
What kind of posture is suitable for a hotel in between city and ocean?
What kind of spirit can express intention for going international?
"Innovation, Technology, and Art" is answer we conclude, and also important spirit needs to be presented in space. Simple to say "feeling is local but image is contemporary".
Weather, humanities, and environment is common experience, and ocean is deep memory for local!
Ocean is permanent exist and connection with the world to Kaohsiung. It can be seen, heard, touched, and smelled, especially it never stop moving with kind of sense and status in unfixed form! So how to use contemporary way to express nature status‚ of ocean is our design thinking. Put it simply, "local factor + contemporary express"!
GROUND FLOOR
The whole ground floor experience is created by 3 elements from entrance to lobby continuously.
Wave Screen - in water
Wave screen starts at entrance and extended to lobby with purpose not just only to connect outside and inside but also create space sequence and intensify entrance axis!
Kinetic Sculpture - dancing particles
Kinetic sculpture inside lobby plays the most important role for creating space spirit. Imaginably, sometime it moves like wave or raining drops, and sometimes it looks elegant or rapid. When it moves slowly, you just feel like time is slowing down or condensed!
Simple to say, what it expresses is not about form, but status, and what it presents is not just only an art, but more importantly it gives space spirit and creates imagination.
Ripple Wall - rhythmic brick
Ripple wall made by brick, behind counter is spread of effect from dancing particles, and similarly, It's status is also created by changing position and angle of single brick to create whole kinetic effect.