The Garden Hotel

A five-star hotel opened up by green voids.

Isometric view of a brick-coloured hotel with planted courtyards among pale blue neighbouring buildings.

Year: 2019
Place: Jammu, India
Project: Academic project, five-star hotel
Site: Outskirts of Jammu, near the airport and railway station

The project

A hotel inspired by organic architecture: the amicability between natural settings and human habitation.

Every fragment of the building has views, daylight and a hint of its natural surroundings. Large green voids let nature into the building, so guests live close to it. Big green spaces hold leisure, relaxation and dining, and the colours are kept refreshing and subtle.

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01 / Idea

A landmark with greenery in it

The hotel is imagined first as a way to give a city without a nodal point a landmark, and then to bring greenery into that landmark.

Three diagrams of a city skyline changing as a tall building and then planted voids are introduced. — 02Cityscape with no imageability; a landmark and nodal point; greenery added to the cityscape.

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02 / Section

Space design, fragment by fragment

Colour section of the hotel showing restaurants, a courtyard pool, green gathering spaces and guest rooms, with form, facade and room diagrams below. — 03Perspective section: the space design of each fragment and the nature pockets at different levels.

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03 / Facade and restaurant

Green voids and a signature restaurant

The facade is a juxtaposition of spaces, with large windows for views of the city. The signature restaurant gives refreshing, relaxed space for dining among planting.

Circular cut-out of the hotel facade with guest rooms, planted terraces and people. — 04The facade: green voids give permeability between nature and guests.

Circular cut-out of a double-height restaurant with pendant lights, a tree and people at tables. — 05The signature restaurant.

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04 / Plans

From ground floor to the tenth

Typical upper floors wrap guest rooms around green voids and gathering areas; the ground and first floors organise public life around courtyards.

Set of hotel plans: upper floors with green voids and gathering areas, and ground and first floors around courtyards. — 06Typical floor plans, ground floor and first floor plans.

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05 / Elevation and interior

The frontage and the interiority

Concrete hotel frontage with framed rooms, planted ledges and guests on a walkway. — 07The frontage with green voids.

Double-height interior with a pink wall, string lights, a tree, tiered seating and people. — 08The interiority.