Cheng Chung Design has used soft-hued materials for the interiors of Dongfengyun Hotel Mi'Le, which forms part of a huge art installation in rural China.
The hotel sits within Dongfengyun Art Town, a new village in Yunnan Province designed entirely by local artist Luo Xu. Set to span two square miles, it consists of a series of curving structures built from locally fired red bricks.
The lobby features rammed earth walls and a polished stone floor CCD is overseeing all of the interior design at Dongfengyun and has already completed 50% Cloud Artists Lounge, a restaurant that doubles as an art gallery.
For the hotel, lighting and ambience were the key ambitions of the design. This begins in the entrance space, a dramatic bowl-shaped volume with a skylight above and a pool at its centre.
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