To create a feeling of zen in this Amsterdam hotel room, designer Hanna Maring added a Japanese wooden bathtub and semi-transparent screens designed to resemble the sky at different times of day (+ slideshow).

Bathing Bikou is one of nine unique suites at the new Volkshotel in Amsterdam, each conceived by a different designer.

Although most rooms within the hotel offer vast views of the city, the space given to Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Maring had only a relatively small window. In response she based her design around creating her own views.

"I designed several big sliding screens with semi-transparent prints that resemble the sky," she explained. "They allow for an open yet intimate atmosphere, and create different views within the space."
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"In this way the hotel room merges the functions of sleeping, washing yourself and relaxing into one experience and one space," she told Dezeen.

To create the timber-framed screens, Maring printed a colourful gradient onto a semi-transparent textile, using a halftone process known as FM screening.

The design is intended to resemble the sky at dawn and dusk. At close range the dot pattern is clearly visible, while from afar the pattern merges into a seamless gradient.
"I blew up the dot sizes of a gradient processed through FM screening," said Maring. "This process translates...