Shanghai’s Atelier de Moore studio has turned a brick concrete building outward BeijingChina, to a boutique the hotel With Courtyard full of sculpture concrete breaks.
Located in Huangmuchang Village, the Sleeping Lab Hotel building formerly housed residential residences and offices and features an enclosed courtyard typical of homes in this area.
Atelier du Moore Preservation and restoration of the courtyard, creating an internal viewing point for hotel guests that also blocks out noise from outside.
“Due to the lack of landscaping in the surrounding environment, we decided to create an interior landscape and create an interesting private garden,” said the studio.
The studio also renovated the two-story building, using the curved lines and geometric compositions of both the architecture and interiors of the hotel.
The tea room, kitchen and dining area are on the ground floor, while the guest rooms are on the first floor.
Large glass windows in the main building allow the interior spaces of the hotel to be opened up to the courtyard.
The 100 square meter courtyard features exposed concrete walls that divide it into smaller sections and add a decorative touch.
Circular openings in the concrete walls allow each space to connect with the public site, while playful lattice openings on the southern boundary wall open up the courtyard space further than its surroundings.
The hotel’s white facade also adds to the building’s sculptural design and contrasts with the exposed concrete sections.
Wooden furniture, carved concrete and white walls decorate the interior, and were chosen to create a sense of continuity between the hotel’s interior spaces and the outdoor courtyard.
All of the furniture was designed by Atelier d’More, which also assembled the prefabricated furniture on site to reduce the cost of construction.
Elsewhere in Beijing, Kiki Archi used red bricks to renovate a garden houseWhile Arch Studio added a wood structure with an undulating roof to a local patio house.
Photography courtesy of Atelier d’More.