The document describes two boutique hotel projects - the National Hotel Chrome in Kolkata, India and the Loisium Hotel in Austria. The National Hotel Chrome is designed to provide a series of unique experiential spaces through sculpted volumes, varied materials and lighting. The Loisium Hotel is centered around wine and features floating glass pillars, public and private spaces dominated by rectangular forms and abundant glass, and materials like cork that reference wine. Both projects are designed to immerse guests through their distinctive architectural concepts and themes.

1. HOTEL DESKTOP STUDY
NATIONAL
HOTEL CHROME , KOLKATA

2. INTRODUCTION
• ARCHITECT : SANJAY PURI
ARCHITECTS
• LOCATION : KOLKATA , INDIA
• HOTEL TYPE : BOUTIQUE HOTEL
• NUMBER OF FLOORS : 8
• HEIGHT OF THE BULIDING : 24m
• NUMBER OF ROOMS : 63
• 4 FLOORS OF PUBLIC SPACE
INCLUDES COFFEE SHOP ,
RESTAURANT , BAR , LOUNGE ,
CAFETERIA , BANQUET HALL.
• OTHER 4 FLOORS OF ROOMS ,
GYM , LOUNGE BAR AND POOL.

3. PLAN

4. PLAN

5. ELEVATION

6. • The hotel is entered through a 24'
high lobby with a wall of varied
rectilinear composition of wood and
glass that curves into the ceiling,
slowly fragmenting into individual
suspended glass cuboids, creating a
sculptural effect. The small lobby
space is perceived with openness by
virtue of its volume and its extension
into an open coffee shop that is
segregated by low pink glass
partitions.
ENTRANCE

7. • Suspended within this lobby volume,
a wood wrapped corridor acts as an
open bar overlooking the lobby while
leading into a restaurant at the upper
level. A glass punctuated floor with
colour change lights echo the exterior
wall composition in this open bar
corridor with a linear glass bar
counter.
OPEN BAR

8. • Angled trapezoidal planes,
punctuated with varied
compositions, fold down from the
ceiling to create two private dining
areas within the restaurant space and
fragment the volume into smaller
spaces that are lent more privacy.
The restaurant design thus creates
compositions of form that are varied
depending upon which part they are
being perceived from.
• Laser cut perforated wooden panels.
RESTAURANT

9. ROOMS
• Four levels of rooms house the 63
rooms, with each floor having a
judicial mix of twin bed and double
bed configurations, along with a suite
and a themed room. The rooms thus
offer a wide range of experiences.
The suites are cantilevered out at the
front corner of the building with floor
to ceiling glass, each one designed
differently. The rear corner has
themed rooms that include a sports
room, a quirky music room, a love
room and a wellness room.

10. ROOMS
• The typical rooms are created with a
graphic composition that flows across
the ceiling diagonally coming down
vertically in a wide panel behind the
bed and sweeping down in a narrow
panel at the opposite end, to turn
into a study table. The graphical
composition of each room differs so
that no two rooms in this boutique
hotel are identical. The rooms
necessarily being smaller due to the
constraints of the site are yet
perceived with openness achieved by
the continuity of design elements
and the glass cornered toilets within
them.

11. TOP FLOOR
• The topmost floor houses a lounge bar with
an open terrace along its length. The bar
being small in area is designed in a fluid
manner that allows it to be perceived as a
larger space while being rendered in a
sculptural way. Undulating curved ribbon
shaped panels are suspended from the
ceiling with reflected colour change lighting
between them across the length of the bar.
The walls and the bar counter are merged
fluidly with curvilinear panels of varying
widths and projections. Complete white
rendering of all the design elements allow
the bar to be completely transformed by
colour change lights at intervals, creating
different moods.

12. • The entire volume comprising of the
public spaces and the vertical
circulation is punctuated by small 45
cm diameter circular openings.
• These openings allow natural light
into the public spaces at daytime
and are made of frit glass so that the
exterior is purposely not seen and
the public spaces have an identity of
their own once one enters and
experiences them.
• Each opening is lit by LEDs during the
evening hours that change colour as
the night progresses, making the
building dynamic as it glows in
different hues like a large
punctuated lantern.
LIGHTING

13. INFERENCE
• This hotel is designed in a manner that allows a series of experiences to its visitors.
The juxtaposition of angular punctuated volumes that form the building, the
sculpted free flowing entrance lobby, the angular abstracted volumes of the
restaurant, the variety of rooms and the fluid spaces of the bar each are created
with their own distinct identity and experience
• Each space is a sculpted volume with forms, colours, textures, materials and
lighting being brought together in a cohesive way to create its individual
experience. These spaces create a hotel that is not just a place to stay in
temporarily, but a series of spaces that are explorative in the experiences they
evoke.
• The building in lieu of its restricted surroundings, size and height limitations yet
creates a strong presence within the area using every space within to advantage in
a clearly functional manner, while creating the illusion of being a much larger
series of spaces internally.

14. HOTEL DESKTOP STUDY
INTERNATIONAL
LOISIUM HOTEL , AUSTRIA

15. INTRODUCTION
• ARCHITECT : STEVEN HOLL
• LOCATION : LANGENLOIS , AUSTRIA
• HOTEL TYPE : BOUTIQUE HOTEL
• THEME : WINE
• AREA : 7000 SQ.M
• ROOMS : 82
• 4 CONFERENCE & MEETING ROOMS
• RESTAURANT , BAR , CIGAR LOUNGE ,
HEATED OUTDOOR POOL , INFRARED
CABIN , MASSAGE PARLOUR , SAUNA.

16. INTRODUCTION
• It's an innovative concept: a hotel and spa for
wine-lovers with an outstanding architectural
approach. Set amid rolling vineyards in
Austria's most popular white-wine region, the
LOISIUM Wine & Spa Resort Langenlois
appears to float on pillars and glass. The 82
guestrooms feature the wine theme and a
map of an underground labyrinth of 900-year-
old wine cellars, a motif used throughout the
hotel. Airy rooms have large windows
overlooking vineyards and the wonderfully
rural lifestyle of the surrounding villages. The
hotel features a lovely year-round heated
outdoor swimming pool, spa treatments, a
spectacular wine savvy restaurant, and offers
trips to the educational wine center next door
for tastings or seminars.

17. INTRODUCTION
• Designed by noted New York architect Steven
Holl, this world-renowned wine- center is
already attracting its own pilgrims, drawn not
only to its spectacular look but also to its
unique concept as a spa for vinophiles.
Loisium's ground floor is almost entirely
transparent, consisting of pillars surrounded
by glass, which creates a hovering, suspended
effect for the building that sits above.
Featuring Holl’s trademark interplay of space
and light, the design hotel’s public and private
spaces are dominated by a few design
elements: abundant glass and latticework, as
well as a repetition of similarly proportioned
rectangular forms in windowpanes,
doorframes, counters, and even mirrors.

18. MATERIALS
• Cork as a material, form and texture
is realized in numerous details
throughout the resort, from the
lighting fixtures in the restaurant
dining room to the texture of the
lobby’s staircase and concrete walls.
This emphasis on cork echoes, of
course, the Loisium's raison d’être –
to celebrate wine in a spa
atmosphere. But it’s more than that –
the lobby rejoices in design with the
Kiesler Eck, a display of furnishings
created for art maven Peggy
Guggenheim in 1942 and available as
reproductions by the modern
Wittmann Carpentry Workshop.
Colored concrete in a unique hue (a
combination of ochre and adobe red)
sets off the greenery that surrounds
the glassed-in lobby.

19. PLAN

20. PLAN

21. PLAN

22. ROOMS

23. RESTAURANT PLAN

24. RESTAURANT

25. BAR

26. BAR

27. SPA

28. ELEVATIONS

29. ELEVATIONS

30. ELEVATIONS

31. INFERENCE