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Red Dot Hotel
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Red Dot Hotel
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eddot Hotel is transformation of a thirty-five
year old hotel formerly the Galaxy Hotel.
The building was reconstructed and got
rebirth. Therefore, the design team began by doing
a thoughtful research of the district where the hotel
is located. They discovered the old and aging district
is packed with elegant buildings with fine materials.
So, they decided the effort to bring new life to the
hotel should be combined with a mission to give
the building a significant role to tell the story of the
district.
The ordinary building materials for hotel design are
abandoned. The nature of materials from tough times
is rediscovered within the space-time memory. For
example, the building adopted a very regional red
brick and pebble surface as its only cladding materials
so that the faced could have a consistent dialogue with
the district’s context as well as bring back good old
memories of the district’s glory days.
We did not copy old-fashioned decorations but apply
the new design to reappear the vitality of old material.
The design goes throughout the arrangement of
exterior and interior space.
Welcoming signs in LED revive a nostalgic melody as
if the clock was set back 40 years. At first sign in lobby,
Fireproof Brick were used to the wall, Reduction
Firing Brick to the ground, and figured glasses
on arched windows. We put various construction
materials with people’s common memories together to
reproduce those beautiful days in the past.
As a hotel, Reddot Hotel wants to make each passenger
feel pleasure and comfortable. Interesting elements
include a stainless tube slide spiraling down from
the second to the first floor that immediately catch
one’s eye. The spiral slide is made by 102 stainless steel
sheet, the metal slide is 27 meters in length. Each time
passengers sit on the slide and go down, they laugh
out loud and enjoy in it. We image that when stainless
Architects: Steven Wu+Wang Pe-Jen
steel sheets of slide reflect colorful neon light, it just
becomes a time tunnel which brings our memories
back. So, Steven Wu, the designer of slide, truly
believes the slide is not simply for fun but rather it is a
symbolic object reversing time and space.
In guest room, we consider about that if it is
comfortable and cozy as in home to every guest.
Wooden floor, serpentine and Hakka fabric was
generally applied in interior design. These ingredients
makes the guestroom more peaceful and reliable just
like home. Besides, the problem of a very low net
floor to ceiling height from the second to eighth floor
needed a proper solution. Using color and furnishing
layouts was a useful way to levitate the pressure of tight
space. Reddot Hotel was located in the central district,
and old district in Taichung. We smartly combined
different materials to connect time and space. This is
the core of Reddot Hotel’s interior design idea.
www.reddot-hotel.com
Photographs: Andrew Chang / Double Hong